{"title":"Peter Green","description":"Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. A novelist and translator as well as a scholar, he is the author of many books, including The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos (California, 1993).","products":[{"product_id":"alexander-to-actium-the-historical-evolution-of-the-hellenistic-age-volume-1-paperback","title":"Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a single critical mind. \u003ci\u003eAlexander to Actium\u003c\/i\u003e was conceived and written to fill that gap.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this monumental work, Peter Green--noted scholar, writer, and critic--breaks with the traditional practice of dividing the Hellenistic world into discrete, repetitious studies of Seleucids, Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Attalids. He instead treats these successor kingdoms as a single, evolving, interrelated continuum. The result clarifies the political picture as never before. With the help of over 200 illustrations, Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development, from mathematics to medicine, from philosophy to religion, from literature to the visual arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreen offers a particularly trenchant analysis of what has been seen as the conscious dissemination in the East of Hellenistic culture, and finds it largely a myth fueled by Victorian scholars seeking justification for a no longer morally respectable imperialism. His work leaves us with a final impression of the Hellenistic Age as a world with haunting and disturbing resemblances to our own. This lively, personal survey of a period as colorful as it is complex will fascinate the general reader no less than students and scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366005080287,"sku":"9780520083493","price":113.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TsCgzk7TXs9780520083493.webp?v=1789077272"},{"product_id":"the-hellenistic-age-a-short-history-paperback","title":"The Hellenistic Age: A Short History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hellenistic Age\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity's great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green's remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those centuries: the Hellenization, by Alexander's conquests, of an immense swath of the known world; the lengthy and chaotic partition of this empire by rival Macedonian bands; the decline of the city-state as the predominant political institution; and, finally, Rome's moment of transition from republican to imperial rule. It is a story of war and power-politics, and of the developing fortunes of art, science, and statecraft, spun by an accomplished classicist with an uncanny knack for infusing life into the distant past, and applying fresh insights that make ancient history seem alarmingly relevant to our own times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Spectacular . . . [filled with] Mr. Green's critical acumen.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Green draws upon a lifetime of scholarship to brilliantly sum up the three-hundred-year Hellenistic age. . . . Happily, this book's brevity-admirable in itself, and in its concision, elegance, and authority-isn't achieved at the expense of subtlety and complexity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-The Atlantic Monthly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An interesting and well-written overview . . . Students of world history are in Green's debt.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-The Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Marvelous . . . splendid . . . a brilliant introduction to this crucial transitional period.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Publishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369500311775,"sku":"9780812967401","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FytXwtTwxk9780812967401.webp?v=1789142511"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/peter-green.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}