the Greeks built Cities (London, 1962) and A. W. Lawrence, Greek Aims in Fortification (Oxford, 1979).
Vase-painting. R. M. Cook, Greek Painted Pottery (London, 1972), a basic handbook. For pictures, P.
Arias, M. Hirmer, and B. B. Shefton, History of Greek Vases (London, 1961). Period studies with full
illustration are J. N. Coldstream, Greek Geometric Pottery (London, 1968); J. Boardman, Athenian
Black Figure Vases and Athenian Red Figure Vases: Archaic Period (London, 1974, 1975). A.D.
Trendall, South Italian Vase-painting (London, 1966), is a valuable brief survey.
Other Arts. R. A. Higgins, Greek Terracottas and Greek and Roman Jewellery (London, 1963, 1961); J.
Boardman, Greek Gems and Finger Rings (London, 1971); D. Strong, Greek and Roman Gold and
Silver Plate (London, 1966); C. M. Kraay and M. Hirmer, Greek Coins (London, 1966).
Many of the works named here relate also to the Hellenistic period.
Greece And Rome
- The History of the Hellenistic Period (By Simon Price)
The best general account of the period in English is F. W. Walbank, The Hellenistic World (London,
1981), with good bibliography. See also W. W. Tarn and G. T. Griffith, Hellenistic Civilisation2
(London, 1952); P. Grimal et al., Hellenism and the Rise of Rome (London, 1968); C.B. Welles,
Alexander and the Hellenistic World (Toronto, 1970). For more detail see the classic work of M. I.
RostovtzefF, The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1941), M.
Cary, A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146B.C.2 (London, 1963), and the new edition of the
Cambridge Ancient History, VII. 1 (Cambridge, 1984). The key sources, including most of those that I
discusss, are translated in M. M. Austin, The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest
(Cambridge, 1981), with a useful supplement in R. S. Bagnall and P. Derow, Greek Historical
Documents: the Hellenistic Period (California, 1981). For the historians see Ch. 8.
Alexander has found numerous biographers. R. Lane Fox, Alexander the Great (London, 1973) is lively,
J. R. Hamilton, Alexander the Great (London, 1973) more balanced; R. Lane Fox, The Search for
Alexander (London, 1980) includes excellent photographs. The political histories of the individual
kingdoms are listed by Walbank (above). G.J.D. Aalders, Political Thought in Hellenistic Times
(Amsterdam, 1975) includes kingship theory, and some texts on this subject are translated by J.F.
Gardner, Leadership and the Cult of the Personality (London and Toronto, 1974).
On the Greeks in India see R. Thapar, A History of India, I (Harmondsworth, 1966), V. Dehejia, Early
Buddhist Rock Temples (London, 1972), J.W. Sedlar, India and the Greek World: A Study in the
Transmission of Culture (Totowa, 1980). For Afghanistan see F.R. Allchin and N. Hammond (eds.), The
Archaeology of Afghanistan from the Earliest Times to the Timurid Period (London, New York, and