The Hellenistic world /
The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic wor...
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| Published: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992. |
| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Hellenistic world / |c F.W. Walbank. |
| 250 | |a Revised edition. | ||
| 260 | |a Cambridge, Mass. : |b Harvard University Press, |c 1992. | ||
| 300 | |a 288 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 21 cm. | ||
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| 500 | |a Originally published: London : Fontana, 1981. (Fontana history of the ancient world) | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [266]-277) and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: the sources -- Alexander the Great (336-323) -- The formation of the kingdoms (323-276) -- The Hellenistic world : a homogeneous culture? -- Macedonia and Greece -- Ptolemaic Egypt -- The Seleucids and the East -- Inter-city contacts and federal states -- Social and economic trends -- Cultural developments : philosophy, science and technology -- The frontiers of the Hellenistic world : geographical studies -- Religious developments -- The coming of Rome. | |
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