Alexander to Actium (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Green
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 323-30 B.C.
- Setting: The ancient Mediterranean world
- Principal Characters: Alexander III of Macedon (the Great), Ptolemy II Philadelphos, Callimachus of Cyrene, Theocritus of Syracuse, Polybius of Megalopolis, Antiochus III (the Great), Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra VII
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, Politics, Literature, Art or artists, Religion, Individuality, Economics, Democracy, Greek or Roman times, Hellenism, Monarchy, Monuments
- Locales: Mediterranean, Ancient world
Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age begins and ends with three unforgettable deaths. It starts in 323 B.C. with the death of Alexander III of Macedon, whose combined military genius and daring in a meteoric thirteen-year reign (336-323 B.C.) created an empire which stretched from Greece in the west to India in the east. It concludes after the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. with the suicides of the Roman Mark Antony and his Egyptian consort Cleopatra VII, who had ambitiously plotted together to defy Rome and reconstruct the empire of Alexander in the...
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