Green, Peter: Alexander to Actium

The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age. In this monumental work, Peter Green breaks with the traditional practice of dividing the Hellenistic world into discrete, repetitious studies of Seleucids, Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Attalids. He instead treats these successor kingdoms as a single, evolving, interrelated continuum. The result clarifies the political picture as never before. With the help of over 200 illustrations, Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development, from mathematics to medicine, from philosophy to religion, from literature to the visual arts. Green offers a particularly trenchant analysis of what has been seen as the conscious dissemination in the East of Hellenistic culture, and finds it largely a myth fueled by Victorian scholars seeking justification for a no longer morally respectable imperialism. His work leaves us with a final impression of the Hellenistic Age as a world with haunting and disturbing resemblances to our own. This lively, personal survey of a period as colorful as it is complex will fascinate the general reader no less than students and scholars. XXIV,970 Seiten mit 214 Abb., 30 Karten und vier Stammtafeln, broschiert (Hellenistic Culture and Society; Vol. 1/A centennial book/University of California Press 1990) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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