ABSTRACT
Hellenism conquered the East by means of the armies of Macedonia and its own institutions. It is the history of that two-fold conquest that this volume has attempted to trace; it was hardly possible to succeed. Too often deprived of the help of the ancient historians, whose work has only come to us in fragments, modern criticism has endeavoured to reconstruct the succession of events by making use of every indication to be found in the authorities and in the ever-swelling mass of inscriptions. It has made an accumulation of researches, interpretations, hypotheses, some of which are gleams of light, while most are still uncertain and often contradictory.
