Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age av Prof Peter Green

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<p><b>A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander''s conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p>