History 111
September 18, 2002
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World
 

Outline
I. Philip II and Macedonia
II. Alexander the Great
III. Alexander's campaigns
IV. Alexander's legacy
V. The Hellenistic kingdoms
VI. Hellenistic literature and art
VII. Materialism and Epicureanism
VIII. Stoicism, scepticism and cynicism
 
 

Terms from today's class
Macedonia
Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.)
Philip II (*359-336 B.C.)
phalanxes
League of Corinth
Olympias
Alexander (356-323 B.C.)
Thebes
Pindar
Aristotle
Isocrates
Homer
Iliad
Achilles
Hellespont
Anatolia
Gordion
Darius
Tyre
Alexandria
Ammon/Zeus
satraps
Bactria
Roxanne
Indus
Babylon
Hegel
Cleopatra VII
Antigonus (382-301 B.C)
Seleucus (358-281 B.C.)
Ptolemy
Aristophanes
Menander
Philemon
Plautus
individualism
communitarianism
materialism
spiritualism
Epicureanism
Epicurus
atoms
Stoics
Scepticism
Pyrrho
Cynics
Diogenes