Alexander To Actium : The Historical Evolution Of The Hellenistic Age - 90 edition

Green, Peter : University of Texas at Austin

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).

"Green's magisterial narrative history covers Hellenistic society as it has never been covered before, boldly combining political and military events with cultural and intellectual developments."

--Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

"Green's style is lively, he draws striking parallels with recent history and recent persons; he paces his narrative in a way that makes it very readable, while deftly keeping the reader aware of the whole of his large-scale patterning of these complex and ramified chains of events. He punctuates narrative with more general discussion, and he picks out telling details that illuminate and remain in the memory. His story line is crisp, and his interpretation is eminently clear and vividly conveyed."

--Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books

"This is a work long awaited and badly needed. The professional scholar will learn much from it; the teacher will find it an invaluable aid in awakening the interest of students in this neglected period; the common reader will be informed and fascinated by this magnificent account of a time so much more like our own than the better known periods that preceded and succeeded it."

--Donald Kagan, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"A welcome addition to the study of Hellenistic history, which has been notoriously overlooked. Green's text is supplied with the most complete indexing, chronologies, and genealogies that I have ever encountered in a history survey."

--M. Johnston, The Classical Outlook

University of California Press Publishing Web Site, January, 2004