Companion to the Hellenistic World

In the school classics curriculum in my day the Hellenistic period was the bit that got left out between study of classical Greek and classical Latin. At university we read the standard histories which helped plug the gap, although the period still did not feature in the curriculum apart from a course on the history of the Greek language. Yet from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the final absorption of the remnants of the Ptolemaic Empire into the Roman Empire following the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, a Greek‐based culture flourished across the Near...