Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age

In all the annals of the ancient world, few stories are more gripping than that of the Hellenistic Age. Between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the rise of Rome, Greek culture became the heart of a world-historical civilization whose intellectual, spiritual, and artistic influence endures to this day. Taught by Jeremy McInerney.

• Greeks and Macedonians
• Alexander the Divine?
• The Blazing Star
• Alexander: Myth and Reality
• The Formation of the Kingdoms
• Egypt Under the Early Ptolemies
• Alexandria and the Library
• The Seleucid Realm
• Pergamum
• Bactria, the Edge of the Hellenistic World
• Sculpture
• Poetry
• The Greek Novel
• Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics
• Kingship and Legitimacy
• Benefaction
• The Maccabean Revolt, Part I
• The Maccabean Revolt, Part II
• Rulers and Saviors
• Economic Growth and Social Unrest
• The Mood of the Hellenistic Age
• Hellenism and the Western Mediterranean
• The Freedom of the Greeks
• Pax Romana