Table of Contents

1. Sources for the period F. W. Walbank; 2. The succession to Alexander Edouard Will; 3. Monarchies and monarchic ideas F. W. Walbank; 4. The formation of the Hellenistic kingdoms Edouard Will; 5. Ptolemaic Egypt E. G. Turner; 6. Syria and the East Domenico Musti; 7. Macedonia and Greece F. W. Walbank; 8. Cultural, social and economic features of the Hellenistic world J. K. Davies; 9. Hellenistic science: its application in peasce and war, hellenistic science G. E. R. Lloyd, war and siegecraft Yvon Garlan, agriculture Dorothy J. Thompson, building and townplanning F. E. Winter; 10. Agathocles K. Meister; 11. The Syrian-Egyptian wars and the new kingdoms of Asia Minor H. Heinen; 12. Macedonia and the Greek leagues F. W. Walbank.

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