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Course Syllabus

SYLLABUS

This course examines the History of the Greek World in the Hellenistic period. The Hellenistic Kingdoms were the states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great and the gradual division of his empire among his chief officials and generals in Greece, the Black Sea, Egypt, and the Near East. Alexander’s successors fought continuous wars against each other and became the main focus of political power in the Eastern Mediterranean. They governed and taxed several different ethnicities, which interacted with each other in various ways.

The Hellenistic Kings established dozens of new Greek cities in the East. These were civic communities organized according to the Greek polis model, with a considerable degree of internal self-governance but dependent on the kings as well.

At the same time several of the ‘old’ Greek cities in Aegean Greece managed to preserve their independence, while others fell under royal rule.

From the 2nd century BC, The Hellenistic World gradually became part of the Roman Empire.

The course focuses on the following topics:

The Sources of Hellenistic History (week 1)

Alexander the Great (weeks 2-3)

Creation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms (weeks 3-4)

Hellenistic Kingship and Greek Cities (weeks 5-7)

Interstate Relations in the Trhid Century BC (week 8)

The Ptolemaic State (weeks 9-10)

The Seleucid State (week 11)

The Roman Conquest of the Hellenistic Word (weeks 12-13)