Wiedenfield & Nicholson - From Alexander to Cleopatra, The Hellenistic World

Details: The story of the brilliant, lively, crowded age of the Greeks who lived in the three centuries following the classical epoch. Bounded at one end by the death in 323BC of Alexander the Great the archetypal hero, and at the other by Cleopatra of Egypt, the supreme product of a society that devoted novel attention to women, the Hellenistic period has often been dismissed as a transitional age between classical Greece and classical Rome. Yet these were significantly eventful years. Michael Grant shows how the era was filled with exciting and original achievement in a host of different fields. Though the Hellenistic communities eventually fell to Roman power, this full account of their civilization shows the survival of their ideas and institutions as permanent features of the centuries to come

This is a hardcover book , in used but good condition. It contains 16 pages of black and white illustrations. Although it has been rigorously cleaned please be aware that this book is from a smokers collection