ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|32 pages

Approaches and Sources

chapter 2|26 pages

Alexander and His Successors To 276 bc

chapter 3|49 pages

Kings and Cities

chapter 4|45 pages

Macedonia and Greece

chapter 5|39 pages

Religion and Philosophy

chapter 6|43 pages

Ptolemaic Egypt

chapter 7|36 pages

Literature and Social Identity

chapter 8|55 pages

The Seleukid Kingdom and Pergamon

chapter 9|42 pages

Understanding the Cosmos

Greek ‘science’ after Aristotle

chapter 10|32 pages

Rome and Greece