Ancient Greek Civilization

SOCRATES: This knowledge of military matters that you have, does it come from your being an exper ...

Figure 62 Right triangle (α^2 + β^2 = γ^2 ). Geometric figures are not available to the senses, but we d ...

of the most influential thinkers in history. His belief in the separation between the body and the immortal sou ...

Figure 63 Detail of bronze krater discovered in 1962 at Derveni, near Thessaloniki, showing a satyr under ...

the everyday world of the democratic assembly and law courts, in which success awaited the man – for only male ...

had important things to say, some of which indicated that they understood better than many of thei ...

Not everyone, however, shared Isocrates’ vision of a united Greece or his favorable attitude toward Philip. W ...

Philippic could represent the current state of affairs as having been caused by those who advised appeasement ...

Figure 64 Monumental marble lion from Amphipolis; height of lion 5.3 m, late fourth century BC. Source: Foto ...

Macedonian army was commanded by Philip’s 18-year-old son Alexander. Demosthenes had been right about Philip’s ...

Figure 65 Digital restoration of interior of the Kasta Tomb, Amphipolis; late fourth century BC. Source: Greektoy ...

a larger fraction of the world’s landmass and human population than any one man had ever ruled, and he chang ...

Figure 15 The campaigns of Alexander the Great. ...

Figure 66 Obverse of silver coin minted by Alexander’s successor Lysimachus, showing Alexander with ram’s horns. ...

Darius had still not been captured and the easternmost parts of the Persian Empire did not yet recognize Alexander ...

Why is Alexander the Great still, today, the subject of heated controversy? Recommended for Further Reading Athenian ...

The Amphipolis Tomb (theamphipolistomb.com, accessed March 29, 2016) is an extensive web-site providing photos ...

12 GREEK CULTURE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD Political Life and the Polis Hellenistic Literature Science, Technology, Eng ...

become conventional to refer to the period from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the end of the last ind ...

Timeline 8 The Hellenistic Period. The territory of the Antigonid kingdom of Macedon consisted of Macedon itself ...