Beschreibung:
Considering developments in literature, religion, philosophy, and science, The Greek World After Alexander examines social changes in the old and new cities of the Greek world and in the new post-Alexandrian kingdoms.
1 Approaches and sources 2 Alexander and his successors to 276 BC 3 Kings and cities 4 Macedonia and Greece, 5 Religion and philosophy 6 Ptolemaic Egypt 7 Literature and social identity 8 The Seleukid kingdom and Pergamon 9 Understanding the cosmos: Greek 'science' after Aristotle, 10 Rome and Greece