Western Civilization

ALEXANDER There are considerable differences of opin-

ion on Alexander the Great. Good biographies include

P. Cartledge, Alexander the Great(New York, 2004);

P. Green,Alexander of Macedon(Berkeley, Calif., 1991);

andG. M. Rogers,Alexander: The Ambiguity of Great-

ness(New York, 2004).

HELLENISTIC MONARCHIES On the various Hellenistic

monarchies, see the collection of essays inC. Habicht,Hellen-

istic Monarchies(Ann Arbor, Mich., 2006).

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRENDS Hellenistic women are

examined in two works byS. B. Pomeroy,Goddesses, Whores,

Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity(New York,

1975), pp. 120–148, and Women in Hellenistic Egypt

(New York, 1984).

HELLENISTIC CULTURE On art, seeJ. J. Pollitt,Art in

the Hellenistic Age(New York, 1986). On Hellenistic philos-

ophy, seeR. W. Sharples,Stoics, Epicureans, and Skep-

tics:AnIntroductiontoHellenisticPhilosophy(London,

1996).

HELLENISTIC RELIGION On various facets of Hellenistic re-

ligion, seeL. Martin,Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction

(NewYork,1987),andA. Tripolitis, Religions of the

Hellenistic-Roman Age(Ann Arbor, Mich., 2001).

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Notes

1. Quoted in S. B. Pomeroy, S. M. Burstein, W. Donlan, and J.
   T. Roberts,Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural
   History(Oxford, 1999), p. 390.


2. Quoted in G. Shipley,The Greek World After Alexander,
   323–30B.C. (London, 2000), p. 53.


3. Quoted in M. B. Fant and M. R. Lefkowitz,Women’s Life in
   Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation(Baltimore,
   1992), no. 208.
   4. Plutarch,Life of Marcellus, trans. J. Dryden (New York,
   n.d.), p. 378.
   5. Epicurus: The Extant Remains, trans. C. Bailey (Oxford,
   1926), pp. 89–90.
   6. Ibid.
   7. Quoted in W. W. Tarn,Hellenistic Civilization(London,
   1930), p. 324.

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