The Hellenistic Empire

i'm fascinated with the hellenistic period, just because nobody ever does any movies about it or writes about it. I think that most political philosophy consists of of falling in love with basically a city level set of institutions and then you just scale it up to half a billion people. And i gess it in terms of empires in the pre modern sense. So so the ptolemies, n egypt, they were basically culturally greek. At home they was like the raje in india. But once a year they would go down to memphis, and the ptolemy would dress up as a pharaoh in three thousand year old costumes. He couldn't