The Hellenistic age /Peter Thonemann.
- First edition.
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; The Hellenistic Age; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; MAPS; 1: The Idea of the Hellenistic; The Man from Soli; A 'Hellenistic' Age?; Writing Hellenistic History; 2: From Alexander to Augustus; Alexander the Great, 336-323 BC; The Age of the Successors, 323-281 BC; The Hellenistic Kingdoms, 281-220 BC; Symploke,̄ 220-188 BC; The 'Short' Second Century, 188-133 BC; The End of the Hellenistic World, 133-30 BC; 3: Demetrius the Besieger and Hellenistic Kingship; Warlords and Kings; The King at War; Demetrius the God; Kings and Cities; The Royal 'Club' 4: Eratosthenes and the System of the WorldThe Chicken-Coop of the Muses; Space and Time: Eratosthenes of Cyrene; Pure and Applied: Archimedes of Syracuse; Poetry and Literary Scholarship; Beyond Alexandria; 5: Encounters; Ashoka Looks West; East: Aristotle in the Hindu Kush; South: Argonauts of the Monsoon; North: Protogenes and Saitaphernes; West: The Villa of the Papyri; 6: Priene; Planning the City; Priene and the Kings; Life in the City; From Apellis to Moschion; TIMELINE; FURTHER READING; CHAPTER 1: THE IDEA OF THE HELLENISTIC; CHAPTER 2: FROM ALEXANDER TO AUGUSTUS CHAPTER 3: DEMETRIUS THE BESIEGER AND HELLENISTIC KINGSHIPCHAPTER 4: ERATOSTHENES AND THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD; CHAPTER 5: ENCOUNTERS; CHAPTER 6: PRIENE; PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INDEX
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.