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.

The Hellenistic World

History

Walbank, F. W.

Ancient Civilizations

Fontana/Collins

With extensive use of quotations from original source material, this book examines the political events in the Hellenistic world from Alexander's death until his incorporation in the Roman Empire. It also describes the different social systems of the peoples under Greek rule, important developments in literature, science and technology and the founding of new religious movements. The author has assimilated all pertinent recent scholarship in the field, and fashioned an obsorbing account of a vast and complex society whose ideas and achievements for the bedrock of present-day Western civilization.

The Hellenistic World (Fontana History of the Ancient World)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Fontana Press

A Historical Commentary on Polybius

Oxford University Press

A Historical Commentary on Polybius, Vol. 2

A History of Macedonia, Vol. 1: Historical Geography and Prehistory

Griffith, G.T.

Hammond, N.C.

The history of Macedonia--the most remarkable of all monarchic states--is here presented from the death of Philip II through the state's loss of independence in 167 B.C. Recent discoveries about Macedonian arts and institutions have aided the authors in recounting the impact of Alexander's career, the civil war between the generals, and the final phase of Macedonian history, the wars with Rome.

A History of Macedonia: Volume III: 336-167 B.C.

Hammond, N.G.L.

Clarendon Press

Walbank's magisterial commentary on Polybius.

Clarendon Press - Oxford (special Sandpiper edition)

Harvard Univ Pr

Polybius, (Sather classical lectures)

University of California Press

Greek Historical Studies, Hellenistic Education, European History

Harvard University Press

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