The Hellenistic World
Dec 10, 2007
A review by “Ursus”…
“The parochial Hellenic city-states had fought tooth and nail against Persia’s unkind attempt to absorb them into a greater realm. Unfortunately for them, Alexander?s imperial ambitions would detach the Hellenic world from the quaint provincialism of the Classical Age and launch them into the cosmopolitan chaos of the Hellenistic Age. Even as Alexander’s successors divided his vast realm amongst themselves, a new age dawned through the interaction of the Hellene and the so-called barbarian. This age, furthermore, would entreat and inform a Roman Empire waiting in the winds. F.W. Walbank in his The Hellenistic World judiciously identifies the commonalties and divergences of the various Hellenistic states.”…
Read the full review of The Hellenistic World by F.W. Walbank.
