Hellenistic Age

Name: Hellenistic Age
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ISBN: 9780393005448

ISBN-10: 0393005445

ISBN-13: 9780393005448

Edition: Reprint

Authors: John B. Bury

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In "the Hellenistic Age and History of Civilization," J.B. Bury discusses important advances made in mathematics, astronomy, and geography; the pattern of the hellenization of Rome; and changing Greek ideas of barbarianism and cosmopolitanism.E. A. Barber's essay, "Alexandrian Literature," deals with the characteristic styles of the period, Alexandrian poetry, and the new prose forms. Besides the scientific and learned writing it is known for, Professor Barber demonstrates, the age produced much popular satiric and moralizing poetry, realistic mime, epigrams, and parodies.As the system of the city states declined, increasing social instability fostered the rise of a number of popular…

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1970
Binding: Paperback
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English