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It corresponded to the great revolutionary feature in the policy of Alexander, who in organizing his Oriental empire was bent on breaking down racial antagonisms and overcoming or softening the distinction between Greek and barbarian.
In April 1870, Mr Augustus Oakley Clarke, expatriate manager of the liquorice factory at the nearby Turkish town of Söke, took a day-trip to Priene with his wife and niece. While Clarke was strolling among the ruins of the temple of ...
Predictably, this is a story of war and power-politics, and of the developing fortunes of art, science, and statecraft in the areas where Alexander’s coming disseminated Hellenic culture.
First published in hardback as The Hellenistic Age 2016.
Drawing on inscriptions, papyri, coinage, poetry, art, and archaeology Peter Thonemann opens up the history and culture of the vast Hellenistic world, from the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) to the Roman conquest of the Ptolemaic ...
The alienation of the people from the government and society itself can be seen as a result of the Hellenistic transformation.
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.
Drawing on inscriptions, papyri, coinage, poetry, art, and archaeology Peter Thonemann opens up the history and culture of the vast Hellenistic world, from the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) to the Roman conquest of the Ptolemaic ...