The Hellenistic World

F. W. Walbank's history of the Hellenistic world covers the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the point when the Greek-ruled lands were absorbed into the Roman Empire. It follows the political events of those years and draws extensively on quotations from original source material.

The book also describes the different social systems of the peoples who lived under Greek rule. It looks at important developments in literature, science and technology, and at the founding of new religious movements.

Walbank, a British historian of ancient Greece, drew on all the relevant recent scholarship in the field. The result is an account of a vast and complex society whose ideas and achievements form part of the foundation of present-day Western civilization.