The Oxford History Of The Classical World

dominance has an interesting analogy in the spread of European culture to our colonies. The needs of the competing kingdoms led ...

Alexander's followers aspired not only to his ideals but also to his lands. The twenty years following his death saw tortuous st ...

Thirdly, Macedon. The ancient dynasty from which Alexander himself came was exterminated, and possession of the land was fiercel ...

Aerial View Of Antioch On The Orontes (modern Antakya, in south-eastern Turkey). Founded by Seleucus I in 300 B.C. and named aft ...

were separate Greek and Egyptian courts administering different law-codes, while the law of Alexandria itself was modeled in par ...

The king was the key figure in the royal administration. To him were addressed petitions by individuals and communities, and all ...

Alexander In The Van Of Battle, detail of a figured frieze on a sarcophagus from the royal cemetery at Sidon (Phoenicia) (c.325- ...

Terracotta Statuette Prom Myrina, showing an Indian war-elephant crushing a Celt, perhaps a reference to Antiochus I's victory o ...

A comparable phenomenon is the competition between the major kingdoms in building ever more elaborate and impressive ships of wa ...

the following oath: I will abide by the established democracy ... and the ancestral laws of Cos ... I will also abide by the fri ...

Aratus turned to the Macedonian king to save the league from Sparta and perhaps also to ward off popular revolution in the Pelop ...

Hellenistic Culture And Literature (By Robin Lane Fox) Introduction: The World after Alexander After Alexander the horizons of ...

Inscription Of Asoka From Kandahar (Afghanistan). The great Mauryan king Asoka (c.268-232 B.C.), ruler of an empire covering muc ...

Exedra In The Gymnasion At Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan (late second century B.C.). Such recesses, equipped with benches against the ...

Main Hall In The Library At Pergamum. Founded by Attalus I (241-197 B.C.), the library has been identified in a group of first-f ...

In every city the culture of the ephebes continued to be valued highly. Fathers troubled to put their sons down for a good gymna ...

Remains Of Hypocaust In The Greek Baths At Olympia. This under floor heating system, dated about 100 B.C. foreshadows the subseq ...

The Stadium At Perge In Southern Turkey. Though the present seating is Roman, the stadium was certainly laid out in Hellenistic ...

What, in return, of the Greeks? Like Alexander, the vast majority were not bilingual, and their schooling still absorbed them. B ...

from 'people who turn their powers against every place'. He was referring, surely, to the Romans. Literature and Patronage Betwe ...