What happens in the Greek world after the untimely death of Alexander the Great? Where and how does Hellenism continue to exist? What is the relationship of Greeks who settle far away from the metropolitan Greece of the South and Macedonia with previous distinguished periods?

In an era of reflection on national communities and their future within a global community, a book on Hellenistic poetry gains additional interest. It raises again the question of power, political and cultural, as it is reflected through the mirror of art. In the Hellenistic period, Hellenism as a dominant fact sought to redefine itself after the ambitious and grand achievements of Philip II and his short-lived son.