From Alexander to Cleopatra
Subtitle: the Hellenistic world
By: Michael Grant.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Hellenism; Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476
Description: Beginning with the death in 323 B.C. of Alexander the Great, the archetypal hero, and ending with Cleopatra, the supreme product of a society that devoted novel attention to women, this book covers developments in politics, science, medicine, philosophy, literature, the fine arts, and the role of women.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 288-303.
Includes index.