The Greek World After Alexander: 323-30 BC

Graham Shipley

Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2000 - History - 568 pages

The Greek World After Alexander 323–30 BC examines social changes in the old and new cities of the Greek world and in the new post-Alexandrian kingdoms.

An appraisal of the momentous military and political changes after the era of Alexander, this book considers developments in literature, religion, philosophy, and science, and establishes how far they are presented as radical departures from the culture of Classical Greece or were continuous developments from it.

Graham Shipley explores the culture of the Hellenistic world in the context of the social divisions between an educated elite and a general population at once more mobile and less involved in the political life of the Greek city.

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User Review  - Liam - Goodreads

This stands as one of the best history books I have read, and I started reading seriously in 1979 at Penn State. It is well researched and uses translations of sources throughout and they amplify the ...

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User Review  - Sharkcrow - Goodreads

A great overview to the centuries following Alexander.

About the author

Shipley is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Greek World After Alexander: 323-30 BC; Routledge history of the ancient world
• Author: Graham Shipley
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2000
• ISBN: 0415046181, 9780415046183
• Length: 568 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / Greece; History / Historiography