Description: Hellenistic Age : A Very Short Introduction, Paperback by Thonemann, Peter, ISBN 0198746040, ISBN-13 9780198746041, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 Rhone 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, in this Very Short Introduction 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).
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Book Title: Hellenistic Age : a Very Short Introduction
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Archaeology, Ancient / General, Ancient / Rome, Ancient / Greece
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Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 4.2 Oz
Author: Peter Thonemann
Item Length: 6.8 in
Item Width: 4.5 in
Book Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
