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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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992. |
| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.