ABSTRACT

The conquest of the East widened the field of expansion hitherto open to Greek trade. It had never strayed away from the Mediterranean. Now it annexed vast continental tracts; it penetrated to the Ister, the Indus, and the Cataracts of the Nile; it assumed a universal character. Over the political frontiers unity of civilization and of economic life was created and firmly established. Already Hellenism radiated over the whole of Italy and over Carthage, over the Celts of La Tène and over the kingdom of Sandracotta, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.