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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History

by Peter Green

Modern Library

April 2007, 240 pages, $21.95

by George Stow

The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

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Provides an interesting and well-written overview of a historical period that Green aptly describes as covering "some of the most crucial and transformational history of the ancient world."

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