Oxford General Reader: the Hellenistic Age
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The Hellenistic Age was an era of cultural globalization and perhaps the most exciting period in ancient European history. In the 3rd century BC, you could roam from Rome to India just by knowing a single language; from Sicily to Tajikistan, kings grappled with the challenges of ruling a multi-ethnic nation, while Greek city-states came together in the earliest known federal system in history; Ptolemaic scientists measured the circumference of the Earth, while the pioneering Greek Argonauts explored the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic coast of Africa. In this book, you can learn about many aspects of the Hellenistic world, including its history, culture, architecture, literature, science, and art, from the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) to the Roman conquest of the Ptolemaic Kingdom (30 BC). Peter Thornman gives us a broad historical overview of this period, as well as narrative close-ups of individual cities and kings.
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