This is the first comprehensive sourcebook in English concentrating entirely on the Hellenistic age.

The aim of this book is to collect in one volume a substantial and representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history,

The Hellenistic period began with the considerable expansion of the Greek world through the Macedonian conquest of the Persian empire and ended with Rome becomi

The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of mona