City and Empire in the Age of the Successors. Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms, Paperback - Ryan Boehm

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Predominantly narrated from the perspective of the Hellenistic Kingdoms, showing how Rome was barely on their radar, the wars among them and intern...

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