researchers

during the years 1801-1810

The faces featured in this volume include portraits of both illustrious historical figures and celebrated contemporaries

aesthetics

16 color and 173 duotone illustrations

Hellenistic Art: From Alexander the Great to Augustus exclude researchersLucilla Burn The Hellenistic Age was a new era of Greek civilization that began with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and lasted until the Roman emperor Octavian defeated the last independent Hellenistic monarch, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, in 31 BCE The book traces the development of a distinctive new Hellenistic culture, which was shaped both by artists who spread innovations across the Mediterranean region and by rival monarchs who