Peter Green's Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age strikes me as very good. It should keep you reading through a long winter (60

Peter Green's Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age strikes me as very good. It should keep you reading through a long winter (600 pages before the notes). Green wrote a shorter book on Hellenistic history and culture also, but I haven't read it.