Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History covers years that include the rise of Macedon and the campaigns of Alexander the Great. The volume treats the politics and economy not only of old Greece but also of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. It has sections on the continued development of classical art and the formation of the philosophical schools in Athens. This second edition, completely replanned and rewritten, is a full and reliable guide to the advances in scholarship of the past sixty-five years.
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Volume 6 of the new edition of the Cambridge Ancient History covers years which include the rise of Macedon and the campaigns of Alexander the Great. The volume treats the politics and economy not only of old Greece but also of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. It has sections on the continued development of classical art and the formation of the philosophical schools in Athens. This second edition, totally replanned and rewritten, is a full and reliable guide to the advances in scholarship of the last 65 years.
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theoric treasurer, epi tei dioikesei, autonomy clause, satrapal capital, strategos autokrator, sacred envoys, corn route, ooo mercenaries, theoric fund, temple medicine, southern imports, collection hippocratique, single polis, eastern satrapies, sacred war, ooo talents, ancestral constitution, astronomical diary, regnal year, common peace, del mondo antico, trilingual inscription, mercenary commander, scythed chariots, army fund Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, King's Peace, Peloponnesian War, Black Sea, Great King, Social War, Corinthian War, Ste Croix, Persian King, Alexander the Great, Iron Age, Jason of Pherae, Arcadian League, Hellespontine Phrygia, Peace of Philocrates, Ionian Revolt, Kerch Peninsula, Peloponnesian League, Second Temple, Corinthian League, Philip of Macedon, Alexander of Pherae, Dionysius of Syracuse, Evagoras of Cyprus, Greater Phrygia New!
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