| The Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC Contributor(s): Shipley, Graham (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415046173 ISBN-13: 9780415046176 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: "The Hellenistic World" examines social changes in the old and new cities of the Greek world and in the new post-Alexandrian kingdoms. It forms an up-to-date appraisal of the momentous military and political changes after the era of Alexander. It also considers developments in literature, religion, philosophy, and science and establishes how far they are presented as radical departures from the culture of Classical Greece or were continuous developments from it. Finally, Graham Shipley explores the culture of the Hellenistic world in the context of the social divisions between an educated elite and a general population at once more mobile and less involved in the political life of the Greek city. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 938.08 |
| LCCN: 99036098 |
| Series: Routledge History of the Ancient World |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.72" (2.95 lbs) 600 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC examines social changes in the old and new cities of the Greek world and in the new post-Alexandrian kingdoms. An appraisal of the momentous military and political changes after the era of Alexander, this book considers developments in literature, religion, philosophy, and science, and establishes how far they are presented as radical departures from the culture of Classical Greece or were continuous developments from it. Graham Shipley explores the culture of the Hellenistic world in the context of the social divisions between an educated elite and a general population at once more mobile and less involved in the political life of the Greek city. |
