The language and culture of the Hellenistic world was Greek. That became the lingua franca of all of these subject peoples. It was to that world what English is to the modern world in many ways ...
Greece and Ptolemaic Egypt serve as case studies, in which there was a seamless transition - out of phase - from Macedonian to Roman xenocracy; both areas changed their overlords in the 2nd century ...
The second volume contains a commentary on the text and Greek and English indexes. The assignment of many of the epigrams to the Hellenistic period depends on the assumption that they were included in ...