Frank William Walbank

The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. F. W. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements.

The Hellenistic World

Dimitris Papastergiou

Good book with some great excerpts from historians and people throughout the ancient Greece. Informative to a point where you don't need it to be a history book, but to the point where it says facts and then gives you quotes from Alexander the Great and whatnot, in ancient Greek and then translated in modern Greek (of course the English version won't have the modern Greek translation). 

Good book that I was surprised I liked, especially since I'm eating every single history book about ancient Greece lately and I pretty much read mostly the same (duh) stuff in every book after the other, but I do like the differences on writing and approach about the ancient world. Generic and repetitive is not the one I like, ie reading a history book and feeling like I'm reading a wiki article. That, I hate and this one is not like that, so kudos to Walbank!

Recommended, if you first check the table of contents because the book covers specific events and not in detail.

The Hellenistic World

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