Changing the Greek World. Scenari di trasformazione nel secolo di Alessandro.

The 4th century B.C. can be considered a saeculum breve, compressed between the end of a pan-Hellenic conflict, which had decreed the failure of a radical democracy, and the establishment of the Macedonian kingdom. In between, the critical reflection of a society, such as the Athenian society, incapable of accepting a secondary role in the political, economic and cultural history of the Hellas, and which reacts by attempting to readapt the old schemes of its golden age to the new feeling of Greek man. The twelve contributions collected here aim to highlight various aspects of those changes characterising an extraordinary period, a veritable building site for the creation of a new world