In Age of Conquests , Angelos Chaniotis redefines the traditional boundaries of the Hellenistic period. While historians typically end the era with the death of Cleopatra in 30 BCE, Chaniotis extends it to the death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 138 CE. He argues that the socio-cultural structures established after Alexander the Great did not vanish with Roman conquest but were instead intensified and integrated into the Roman imperial framework.
A vast network of trade and cultural exchange stretching from Italy to Afghanistan and Russia to Ethiopia. Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexande...
This essay discusses the themes and arguments of Angelos Chaniotis's Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (2018). It explores the "long Hellenistic age," a period spanning from 336 BC to AD 138, which Chaniotis argues was a unified era of globalization, cultural exchange, and significant social change. In Age of Conquests , Angelos Chaniotis redefines