Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (336 BC - AD 138)

基本信息

Series:The Profile History of the Ancient World Series

Format:Paperback / softback 480 pages, Integrated black and white photos and maps

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Imprint:Profile Books Ltd

Edition:Main

ISBN:9781846682971

Published:6 Jun 2019

Classifications:Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:386g

Dimensions:194 x 128 x 30 (mm)

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書籍簡介

亞歷山大大帝逝世後，亞歷山大帝國消亡。重組的帝國從地中海一帶一直綿延至當今的阿富汗地區。從公元前3世紀末到公元前1世紀末，羅馬帝國的軍事與外交力量一步步瓦解了後亞歷山大時代的政治結構。在希臘化時代，貿易重新開始增長，思想和藝術中心逐漸湧現。公元前30年，埃及法老克利歐佩特拉逝世，希臘化時代終結。但查尼奧蒂斯認為，希臘化時代一直持續到了138年羅馬帝國皇帝哈德良的逝世。不只希臘化的社會結構在羅馬帝國繼續存在，從亞歷山大大帝逝世到克利歐佩特拉逝世期間所興起的文化與經濟趨勢也在羅馬帝國時期得到了強化。

該書講述了在這幾個世紀中關於塑造古代文明的重要事件，其中許多事件對於當今世界仍有借鑑意義。

The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterranean to as far east as Bactria. In old Greece a fragile balance of power was continually disturbed by wars. Then, from the late third century, the military and diplomatic power of Rome successively defeated and dismantled every one of the post-Alexandrian political structures.

The Hellenistic period (c. 323-30 BC) was then one of fragmentation, violent antagonism between large states, and struggles by small polities to retain an illusion of independence. Yet it was also a period of growth, prosperity, and intellectual achievement. A vast network spread of trade, influence and cultural contact, from Italy to Afghanistan and from Russia to Ethiopia, enriching and enlivening centres of wealth, power and intellectual ferment.

From Alexander the Great's early days building an empire, via wars with Rome, rampaging pirates, Cleopatra's death and the Jewish diaspora, right up to the death of Hadrian, Chaniotis examines the social structures, economic trends, political upheaval and technological progress of an era that spans five centuries and where, perhaps, modernity began.

作者簡介

安耶洛斯·查尼奧蒂斯是普林斯頓高等研究學院歷史研究學院的教授，也是牛津大學萬靈學院的Quondam研究員。他是許多書籍和文章的作者，他是補充銘文Graecum和古典研究期刊Mnemosyne的編輯。

Angelos Chaniotis is a Professor at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Quondam Fellow at All Souls, Oxford University. The author of many books and articles, he is senior editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum and an editor of the Classical Studies journal Mnemosyne.