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The Hellenistic World

From Alexander’s death to Cleopatra’s: three centuries in which Greek kings ruled from Egypt to Afghanistan, and Alexandria became the greatest city of the world, told by Sophia with Philo, Marcos and Demetria, with grammar at every level and a gamebook for each part.

Volume III of the History of the Ancient World. The same rules as every volume: what scholars agree on, what they debate and what nobody knows, and the same questions for every people’s texts. A companion to the Ancient Historians.

Alexander’s heirs

The Greek kings of Egypt and Asia.

The Ptolemies: Greek Pharaohs

Alexander’s stolen body, sister queens, Berenice’s hair and the Rosetta decree.

Part 1B2Free

Science in Alexandria: The Museum

Euclid, Eratosthenes measuring the Earth with a shadow, Herophilus and Ctesibius.

Part 2B2–C1Premium

The Seleucids and the Hellenistic East

From Antioch to India: war elephants, Ashoka’s Greek edict and a Greek city in Afghanistan.

Part 3B2Premium

Judea and Alexandria

A small nation between two kingdoms, and the city where the scriptures became Greek.

Alexander’s Heirs: Ptolemies, Seleucids and Maccabees

Greek kings, and a small nation that fought back.

Part 4B2–C1Premium

Philo’s Alexandria and the Greek Scriptures

The Torah in Greek, in Philo’s own city.

Part 5B2Premium