"The History of Hellenism" by Droysen is the first and so far the only fundamental work that opened up for the reader that relatively late period of ancient history (from the rise of Macedonia under the kings Philip and Alexander to the intervention of Rome in Greek affairs), about which there was practically little before what they knew and in which they saw only a chaotic accumulation of wars, dynamic strife and political upheavals. Droysen was able to see the more general, world-historical significance of the era of ancient history he was considering. It was he who gave this era a capacious definition of Hellenism, by which, at a first approximation, he understood “the spread of Greek domination and education among the old cultural peoples (of the East).” However, from a broader historical perspective, the content of Hellenism was understood to them as a complex interaction and connection of the Western and Eastern worlds, cultures and religions, in short, as a synthesis of Hellenic, Eastern principles, the result of which was to be the emergence of a new world religion and culture - Christianity. Droysen presented the history of Hellenism primarily in its political form; the overview of Hellenistic time was brought only to 220 BC. e. - before the start of active intervention in the affairs of the Greeks of the Roman Empire; the entire subsequent history of Hellenism (up to the subjugation by the Romans in 30 BC of the last Hellenistic state - Ptolemaic Egypt) remained beyond his attention. But what was done is striking in its scale, and with regard to the political history of early and mature Hellenism, the work of Droysen and the volume and thoroughness of the presented reconstruction still has no equal. CONTENTS: BOOK ONE

Chapter OneGeographical basis. - Development from local funds. - Greek civilization. - The role of Alexander. - Foundations of cities. - Kingdom of the Lagids. - Kingdom of the Seleucids. - India. -Atropatena. - Asia Minor. - Galatians. - Macedonia. -Greeks. - Epirus. - A look at the past. - Greeks in Sicily and Italy

Chapter two, 280-275 Tarentum and the Italian coalition. - Victory of Rome. - Tarentum in negotiations with Pyrrhus. - Victory at Heraclea. - Pyrrhus near Rome. - Retreat. - Negotiation. - Second year of the war. - Battle of Ascule. - Sicily and Pune. - Pyrrhus in Sicily. - Siege of Lilybaeum. - Riots. - Retreat of Pyrrhus. - Battle of Beneventa. - Return of Pyrrhus to Epirus. - Romans and Carthaginians under Tarentum.- All of Italy became Roman

Chapter three, 275-262. Invasion of the Gauls. - Antigonus and Nicomedes against Antiochus. - Antigonus in Macedonia. - Victory of Pirranad by Antigonus. - Pyrrhus against Sparta. - His death near Argos. - Pacification of Greece. - Chremonidian war. - Macedonia is a great power. - Antiochus's victories over the Galatians. - Ptolemy Philadelphus. -Cyrene War. - First Syrian War. - Death of Antiochus. - Review

BOOK TWO

Chapter One, 262-247 The system of Western states. - Rome and Carthage. - Political situation of Sicily. - Hiero Imamertines. - First Punic War. - Eastern policy. - Egypt's war in the South. -Death of the Magician. - Antiochus II. -Bethynian War of Succession. - Antiochus in Thrace. -Second Syrian War. - Demetrius in Cyrene; situation in Greece; Liberty Ionia; freedom in Megalopolis, Sicyon; death of Demetrius; world. - Seleucid East; kingdom of Ashoka; Atropatene: foundation of Bactria, Parthia; kingdoms of satraps

Chapter two, 247-239. Peaceful state. - Death of Antiochus II. - Murder of Berenice. - Third Syrian War; collapse of the Syrian Seleucid kingdom; Antiochus Hierax in Asia Minor; war between brothers; peace 239 -Freedom in Cyrene. - Macedonian-Egyptian war; Rhodes vs Egypt. - Achaean Union. - Arata's first strategy. - Capture of Corinth. - Agis reforms. - Agis and Aratus against Antigonus and the Macedonians. -Death of Agis. - Peace in Greece. - The state of Greece. - Death of Antigonus

BOOK THREE

Chapter One, 239-227. Peaceful state. - Seleucus's campaign to the East. - Outrage in Antioch. - Victory of Attalus over the Galatians. - Second War Seleucus with Antiochus. - World. - Antiochus's attack on the Lagids. - Antiochus defeated by Attalus; his death. - Acarnania turned to Rome for help. - The royal power in Epirus has been overthrown. - Demetrius against the Dardanians. - The Aetolians and Achaeans united. - Demetriuswar. - Lydiad. - Peace in Greece. - Illyrians and their raids. - Rome versus Illyria. - Death of Demetrius. -Expansion of the Achaeans. - The structure of the union. - Rome and Greece. - Accession of Antigonus II. - Antigonus occupies Caria

Chapter two, 227-221 Cleomenes. - King in Sparta. - His first war with the Achaeans. - Battle of Lyceum. - Battle of Leuctra. -Cleomenes' plan. - Reform of Cleomenes. - Internal discord in the Achaean League. - Arat is negotiating with Antigonus. - Battle of Hecatombaeum. - Achaeans for Cleomenes. - The intrigues of Arata. - Resumption of war.- Fall of the Achaeans cities. - The dictatorial power of Arata. - Antigone's first campaign. - Union of Cleomenes with Egypt. - Seleucus against Asia Minor. - Second Antigone campaign. - Fall of Megalopolis. -Rebellion in Lydia and Persia. - Kelesyrian War. - Antigonus yields to Carius. - Third campaign of Antigone. - Battle of Selassie. - Restoration in Sparta. - Unification of Greece. - Clemen in Egypt.- Conclusion

Note to the first book of the second book of the third. The attachment I. Cities founded by Alexander and his successors, founded by the Alexandromgorod, founded by the Asian Suritan regions according to the Euphrates and the Tigerounsky Upland with India and Bactriafric and Arabicias III. About the era of Arad II. List of Macedonian kings after Alexander, according to Eusebius III. Chronological table of the Macedonian kingsIV. Chronological table