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Title The Hellenistic world from Alexander to the Roman conquest : a selection of ancient sources in translation / M.M. Austin
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981

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Description xv, 488 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Contents The reign of Alexander -- The age of the successors -- Macedon and the Greek mainland to the Roman conquest -- The Greek cities: social and economic conditions -- The seleucids and Asia -- The Attalids of Pergamum -- The Ptolemies and Egypt
Summary The aim of this book is to collect in one volume a substantial and representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economic life of the Hellenistic world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second century BC - that is, from when the Greek world expanded considerably through Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the time when Rome became the predominant political force in that world. The area covered includes Macedon and mainland Greece, the Aegean, Asia, Syria and Egypt. Fringe areas such as the Black Sea and Bactria are also included where appropriate, but less fully. The sources selected include literary sources, numerous inscriptions from almost all parts of the Hellenistic world, and papyri from Egypt. The sources themselves are supported by introductory commentary, notes, bibliographies, chronological tables and maps. --Amazon.com
Analysis Geschichte 336 v. Chr.-30 v. Chr
Ancient Greece B.C 362-B.C 146
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 467-470
Subject Hellenism -- Sources.
SUBJECT Greece -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057073 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
Greece -- History -- 281-146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057089 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
Greece -- History -- Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057088 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005633 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012007
Author Austin, M. M.
LC no. 81006136
ISBN 0521228298
0521296668 (paperback)