Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age: A Short History
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson | 2008 | ISBN: 0297852949 | 272 pages | PDF | 8,9 MB
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson | 2008 | ISBN: 0297852949 | 272 pages | PDF | 8,9 MB
The book begins with the personality and achievements of Alexander the Great, and continues with the military and political violence of the successor-kingdoms that fought over his inheritance. This era saw many important developments: a shift from the oral to the written; a move from the public to the private and a new individualist ethos; a huge growth in slavery, and therefore a glut of slave-labour which destroyed the incentive to innovate; a growing gap between rich and poor; a growing taste for luxury.