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ISBN-10 :  0191076817 

ISBN-13 :  9780191076817

Author:   Peter Thonemann 

The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube could serve in the mercenary army of a Macedonian king ruling in Egypt, and a Greek philosopher from Cyprus could compare the religions of the Brahmins and the Jews on the basis of first-hand knowledge of both. Kings from Sicily to Tajikistan struggled to meet the challenges of ruling multi-ethnic states, and Greek city-states came together under the earliest federal governments known to history. The scientists of Ptolemaic Alexandria measured the circumference of the earth, while pioneering Greek argonauts explored the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic coast of Africa. Drawing on inscriptions, papyri, coinage, poetry, art, and archaeology Peter Thonemann opens up the history and culture of the vast Hellenistic world, from the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) to the Roman conquest of the Ptolemaic kingdom (30 BC).

The Hellenistic age 1st Table of contents:

1. The Idea of the Hellenistic
The Man from Soli
A ‘Hellenistic’ Age?
Writing Hellenistic History
2. From Alexander to Augustus
Alexander the Great, 336–323 bc
The Age of the Successors, 323–281 bc
The Hellenistic Kingdoms, 281–220 bc
Symplokē, 220–188 bc
The ‘Short’ Second Century, 188–133 bc
The End of the Hellenistic World, 133–30 bc
3. Demetrius the Besieger and Hellenistic Kingship
Warlords and Kings
The King at War
Demetrius the God
Kings and Cities
The Royal ‘Club’
4. Eratosthenes and the System of the World
The Chicken-Coop of the Muses
Space and Time: Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Pure and Applied: Archimedes of Syracuse
Poetry and Literary Scholarship
Beyond Alexandria
5. Encounters
Ashoka Looks West
East: Aristotle in the Hindu Kush
South: Argonauts of the Monsoon
North: Protogenes and Saitaphernes
West: The Villa of the Papyri
6. Priene
Planning the City
Priene and the Kings
Life in the City
From Apellis to Moschion
Timeline
Further Reading

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