Pathbreaking essays challenging the traditional focus on the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period and on Rome in the West.

Introduction Jonathan R. W. Prag and Josephine Crawley Quinn; 1. The view from the East Andrew Erskine; 2. Hellenistic Pompeii: between Oscan, Greek, Roman, and Punic Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; 3. The 'Hellenistics of death' in Adriatic central Italy Ed Bispham; 4. Hellenistic Sicily, c.270-100 BC Roger Wilson; 5. Trading across the Syrtes: Euesperides and the Punic world Andrew Wilson; 6. Strangers in the city: élite communication in the Hellenistic central Mediterranean Elizabeth Fentress; 7. Monumental power: 'Numidian royal architecture' in context Josephine Crawley Quinn; 8. Representing Hellenistic Numidia, in Africa and at Rome Ann Kuttner; 9. Hellenism as subaltern practice: rural cults in the Punic world Peter van Dommelen and Mireia López-Bertran; 10. Were the Iberians Hellenized? Simon Keay; 11. Epigraphy in the western Mediterranean: a Hellenistic phenomenon? Jonathan R. W. Prag; 12. Heracles, coinage, and the West: three Hellenistic case-studies Liv Yarrow; 13. On the significance of East and West in today's 'Hellenistic' history Nicholas Purcell.