From Alexander to Cleopatra: The Hellenistic World

This is the story of the brilliant, lively, crowded age of the Greeks who lived in the three centuries following the classical epoch. Bound at one end by the death in 323 BC of Alexander the Great, the archetypal hero, and at the other by Cleopatra of Egypt, the supreme product of a society that devoted novel attention to women, the 'Hellenistic' period has often been dismissed as a transitional age between classical Greece and classical Rome.