This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from

Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this authoritative Companio

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading spe

This is the first comprehensive sourcebook in English concentrating entirely on the Hellenistic age.

The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of mona