Greece Against Rome

Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC by Philip Matyszak

The subtitle is more accurate than the title. Greece was a backwater at this time, ruled by Macedon, suffering serious depopulation owing at all the Greeks who left it to form the city-based forces of the Hellenistic kings.

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only die once

So, Sleeping Beauty's parents die while she's asleep. (Perrault, not Grimm, the learned will note.)

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