In the Hellenistic Age and History of Civilization, J.B. Bury
discusses important advances made in mathematics, astronomy, and
geography; the pattern of the hellenization of Rome; and changing
Greek ideas of barbarianism and cosmopolitanism.
E. A. Barber s essay, Alexandrian Literature, deals with the
characteristic styles of the period, Alexandrian poetry, and the
new prose forms. Besides the scientific and learned writing it is
known for, Professor Barber demonstrates, the age produced much
popular satiric and moralizing poetry, realistic mime, epigrams,
and parodies.
As the system of the city states declined, increasing social
instability fostered the rise of a number of popular philosophies.
In another chapter, Edwyn Bevan outlines the similarities and
differences between the Platonic, Peripatetic, Stoic, Epicurean,
Sceptic, and Cynic schools and the effect of Christianity on their
society.
W. W. Tarn s The Social Question in the Third Century examines
the conditions that led to revolution in the century after
Alexander. The author describes the economic disturbances leading
to the polarization of classes, and assesses the phases of social
revolution as exemplified in the uprisings at Sparta."
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