The hellenistic world / F.W. Walbank.
By: Walbank, F. W. (Frank William)
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993Edition: Rev. ed.Description: 288 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780674387263 (pbk.) :; 0674387260 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Hellenism | Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C | Mediterranean Region -- CivilizationSummary: 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 world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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| DF 77 .S62 1961 The origins of Greek civilization : 1100-650 B.C. / | DF 77 .S7 1933 The glory that was Greece : | DF 77 .T3 1966 Hellenistic civilisation / | DF 77 .W35 1993 The hellenistic world / | DF 78 .B6 1965 Classical Greece, | DF 78 .Q8 1957 Everyday things in ancient Greece, | DF 81 .F6 1966 The Emergence of Greek Democracy : the character of Greek, politics, 800-400 BC. |
Originally published: London : Fontana, 1981. (Fontana history of the ancient world).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-277) and indexes.
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 world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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