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ALEXANDER There are considerable differences of opin- ion on Alexander the Great. Good biographies include P. Cartledge, Alexander the Great (New York, 2004); P. Green, Alexander of Macedon (Berkeley, Calif., 1991); and G. M. Rogers, Alexander: The Ambiguity of Great- ness (New York, 2004).
HELLENISTIC MONARCHIES On the various Hellenistic monarchies, see the collection of essays in C. Habicht, Hellen- istic Monarchies (Ann Arbor, Mich., 2006).
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRENDS Hellenistic women are examined in two works by S. B. Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity (New York,
Notes
1. Quoted in S. B. Pomeroy, S. M. Burstein, W. Donlan, and J. T. Roberts, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (Oxford, 1999), p. 390.
2. Quoted in G. Shipley, The Greek World After Alexander, 323–30 B.C. (London, 2000), p. 53.
3. Quoted in M. B. Fant and M. R. Lefkowitz, Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation (Baltimore, 1992), no. 208.
1975), pp. 120–148, and Women in Hellenistic Egypt (New York, 1984).
HELLENISTIC CULTURE On art, see J. J. Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age (New York, 1986). On Hellenistic philos- ophy, see R. W. Sharples, Stoics, Epicureans, and Skep- tics: An Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy (London, 1996).
HELLENISTIC RELIGION On various facets of Hellenistic re- ligion, see L. Martin, Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction (New York, 1987), and A. Tripolitis, Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age (Ann Arbor, Mich., 2001).
4. Plutarch, Life of Marcellus, trans. J. Dryden (New York, n.d.), p. 378.
5. Epicurus: The Extant Remains, trans. C. Bailey (Oxford, 1926), pp. 89–90.
6. Ibid.
7. Quoted in W. W. Tarn, Hellenistic Civilization (London,
1930), p. 324.
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