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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.

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