Greek Empire
In the Hellenistic period, Greek Empire can refer to any individual or all successor states of the Diadochi:
- Seleucid dynasty
- Antigonid dynasty
- Ptolemaic dynasty
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“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.””
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)