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gift to be cherished by the avid reader. The Hellenistic
Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that
witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity s great
civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green s
remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes
and events of those centuries: the Hellenization, by
Alexander s conquests, of an immense swath of the known
world; the lengthy and chaotic partition of this empire
by rival Macedonian bands; the decline of the city-state
as the predominant political institution; and, finally,
Rome s moment of transition from republican to imperial
rule. It is a story of war and power-politics, and of
the developing fortunes of art, science, and statecraft,
spun by an accomplished classicist with an uncanny knack
for infusing life into the distant past, and applying
fresh insights that make ancient history seem alarmingly
relevant to our own times
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