This group of fourteen essays provides new insights into the history of the Hellenistic world through literary and archa
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"The Hellenistic World" assembles fourteen new papers, by an international group of contributors, on the pivot
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The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years
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This volume gathers sixteen essays on monarchy and power in the Hellenistic period and charts a new approach to Hellenis
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This is the first book on athletics in the Hellenistic era, with 16 contributions covering a range of historical, archae
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