Alexander to Actium: Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Hellenistic Culture & Society) |
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Peter Green
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Pages: 970 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0520056116
Pub: University of California Press
Pub date: 1990-09-24
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 627602
Reader Reviews:
Good Book (3/5 people found this helpful)
From Alexander to Actium is in many ways a remarkable book. It is normal for historians to fall in love with their time and to present their subject as important or of particualar worth. This book is unusual in that the writer is aware of the weaknesses of Greek Culture in the successor kingdoms. The fact that manual work and commerce were frowned upon, the lack of development of science, the represive nature of the Greek Monarchies and the lack of any conception of government being for the broad welfare of the subjects. Yet at the same time he has an interest in his subject which makes the book readable and ineresting.
Tom Munro
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Books -> Subjects -> History -> Europe -> Pre-500
Books -> Subjects -> History -> World History
Books -> Subjects -> History -> General
Books -> Subjects -> Study Books -> Undergraduate & Postgraduate -> Arts & Humanities -> Classics & Ancient History -> Ancient Greek