By Christian Habicht
Christian Habicht's paintings displays this highbrow transition. The Hellenistic Monarchies is a suite of essays on Alexander the good and the strong rulers that him, together with the Ptolemies of Egypt, the Seleucids of Asia, the Antigonids of Macedonia and Greece, and the Attalids of Pergamum. Habicht provides his most recent examine at the reign of those special monarchies, focusing fairly on their kin with one another and their interactions with the Greek towns inside of their domain.
Making use of the newest epigraphical facts from newly came across inscriptions, this quantity of latest, newly translated, and republished decisions records the weather of presidency one of the significant Hellenistic monarchies, together with sections at the very important monarchies managed via the Ptolemies and their contemporaries and concluding with a postscript through the writer at the 4 many years of his paintings during this area.
Christian Habicht is Professor Emeritus, university of old experiences, Institute for complex learn, Princeton, New Jersey, and writer of Pausanias' consultant to old Greece. He has obtained the Lifetime success Award from the yank Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy.
Peregrine Stevenson was born in eire in 1958. He studied glossy Languages and sleek heritage at Magdalen collage, Oxford, and Linguistics at Cambridge
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