CLA 2100	Lecture Twenty-Three: A Brave New World: Tyranny, Empire, and Gods on Earth.
Mainpage Syllabus Calendar Dr. H-F O Mueller

Maps

• Map of Persian Empire (Source: Everyman's Classical Atlas)
• Map of Alexander's Empire (Source: Everyman's Classical Atlas)

Images of Big Al

• Bust of Alexander (Source: Beazley Museum, Oxford, UK)
• Another Bust of Alexander (Source: Brown University)
• Alexander on Horse (Source: St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL)
• Coin of Alexander (Source: University of Pennsylavania)

Some Dates

• 490-479 Persian Wars
• 431-404 Peloponnesian War
• 404-371 Sparta Supreme in Greece
• 399 Trial of Socrates
• 371 Sparta defeated at Leuctra
• 362 Victory & death of Epaminondas at Mantinea
• 359 Philip II of Macedon ascends throne
• 338 Athens & Thebes defeated by Philip at Chaeronea
• 336 Accession of Alexander
• 331 Big Al founds Alexandria in Egypt
• 327 Big Al invades India
• 323 The dictator dies
• 322 Death of democracy in Athens (for 2500 years)
• Successors to Big Al
  • Antigonids in Macedon & Greece
  • Seleucids in Assyria, etc.
  • Ptolemies in Egypt
  • Independents: Rhodes, Achaean League, Pergamum

Some Political Characteristics of the Hellenistic World

• Military Violence
• Absolute Rule
• End of independence, civil rights, democracy, etc.
• Ruler worship: supreme commander or leader a "god on earth"

Plutarch's Life of Alexander

• History & Anecdotes: Understanding the Dictator.
• Some characters, places, etc.: Bucephalus, Philip, Olympias, Diogenes (the Cynic), Aristotle, Callisthenes, Darius, Ammon, Alexandria, Gaugamela, Babylon, Hephaistion & Craterus, Philotas, Parmenio, Clitus.
• Prostration: What was the big deal?
• Pages Conspiracy.