His vast territory, split up among his generals after his premature death, was ruled by several great Hellenistic dynasties, whose kingdoms encompassed a variety of strongly independent cultural traditions. Eventually, by the late first century BC, all of the Hellenistic kingdoms had come under the dominion of Rome. Beginning with the historical and political background to the era, the author then traces the development of a new, distinctive cultural character in the Hellenistic Age and explores how this was shaped by the ambitions of its new individual rulers, the increased affluence of their urban centres and the contrasts between the regional diversity and common cultural identity (koine) which characterized their societies.
- ISBN10 0714122254
- ISBN13 9780714122250
- Publish Date 28 October 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint British Museum Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English