Peter Green
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
Paperback
(Phoenix March 15, 2008)
, paperback / softback edition
The book begins with the personality and achievements of alexander the great, and continues with the military and political violence of the successor-kingdoms that fought over his inheritancethis era saw many important developments: a shift from the oral to the written; a move from the public to the private and a new individualist ethos; a huge growth in slavery, and therefore a glut of slave-labour which destroyed the incentive to innovate; a growing gap between rich and poor; a growing taste for luxury
- ISBN
- 0753824132 / 9780753824139
- Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 7.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.1 x 0.7
in.