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Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
Revised edition.
Language
English
Description
The vast land empire that Alexander the Great left to his successors was without parallel in Greek history. Alexander's family and generals created a new order of monarchies and city-states, which was to control most of the territory between the Adriatic Sea and western India for three hundred years.
The term 'hellenistic' is commonly used to describe this world in which Greek was the lingua franca.
Greeks flocked southwards and eastwards to found...
Author
Series
Delacorte world history volume 6
Pub. Date
[1968]
Edition
[First American edition].
Language
English
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 548
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The three centuries following the conquests of Alexander were perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. Culture, ideas, and individuals travelled freely over vast areas from the Rhone to the Indus, whilst dynasts battled for dominion over Alexander's great empire. Thonemann presents a brief history of this globalized world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In The First European: A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire, Pierre Briant examines the revival and rewriting of the history of Alexander the Great in 18th-century Europe. To Enlightenment thinkers Alexander exemplified the West and Europe, especially in his role as the conqueror of Asia. Classical texts, ancient history, and the new science of archaeology were all deployed in the service of European empire-building. Alexander was of interest...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Orthodox Christians believe that their faith, liturgical life, and ethos have an unbroken continuity of over two thousand years. This volume contains sixteen essays and studies on the powerful, seminal interrelationship between Christianity and Greek civilization.
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