Ron Garner, ex-soldier and recent resident of HM prison, resolves to get his mute teenage daughter to safety after a world wide epidemic has thrown the UK into a state of uncontrolled terror. Picking up two other refugees along the way he encounters danger and mystery before he reaches his destination, but then with the appearance of an old adversary his story does not end there.
Will Leo's dreams of acting come true, or sink without trace? This play is part of the High Impact series for reluctant readers, designed to increase students' confidence, reading ability and enthusiasm for drama.
This work examines a test case for the relationship between the polis and the Hellenistic empire focusing specifically on the interaction between Antiochos III and the cities of Western Asia Minor (226-188 BC). Such a study is possible thanks to a rich epigraphical documentation which has been reproduced extensively and translated in an appendix to this book. Dr Ma approaches this material from a variety of angles: narrative history, structural analyses of imperial power, and analyses of the functions played by language and stereotype in the interaction between rulers and ruled. The result is to further a nuanced appreciation of the relation between the Hellenistic king and the Hellenistic polis by drawing attention to the power of the Hellenistic empires, to the capacity of political language to modify power relations, and to the efforts of the Hellenistic polis to preserve its sense of identity and civic pride, if not its political independence.
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