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LECTURE:
HELLENISTIC WORLD

Philip of Macedon and Alexander
Document: Plutarch -- Assassination of Philip of Macedon

The Four Empires
Animated map of Alexander's conquests
Map of Alexander's Empire
Hellenistic States

Society and Culture

• focus on individual
• private life
• view of religion and nature
  • Isis
    • Document: Statue of Aphrodite-Isis
    • Goddess Isis, Isis and Horus
  • sexuality
• naturalistic art
  Document: Pergamon frieze
  

Hellenistic science

• creation of disciplines
• medicine -- after Hippocrates
  Document: Hippocrates
  Hippocratic oath & The Hippocratic corpus
• geography
  • Eratosthenes (3rd c. BC) map
  • Claudius Ptolemy (AD 2nd c.) map

Hellenistic Philosophy

• Epicureanism: Epicurus
  Modern Epicureanism: The Philosophy Garden
• Stoicism: Zeno and Epictetus
• Cynicism:
  Document:Diogenes Laërtes - Life of Diogenes the Cynic

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