Ancient Greek Civilization

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

Map 16 Hellenistic kingdoms in the early third century BC. Map based on A. Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the He ...

“There was another man whose obsequiousness surpassed that of Stratocles. He proposed a bill to the effect t ...

Cleopatra is made up of the same elements, in reverse order, as the name of Achilles’ companion Patroclus, ...

Figure 68 Obverse of gold coin minted by and showing in profile Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II. Ottilia Buerger Collecti ...

cities was constructed so that it had the characteristic features of a Greek polis, such as a theater, ...

The transformation of the Greek world that had resulted from Alexander’s campaigns and the division of his e ...

Map 17 Map of early Ptolemaic Alexandria, drawing by Wolfram Hoepfner, with additions by Günter Grimm. Source: Re ...

Hamadan, Iran and Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan (figure 69). The many tragedies that were written in the Hell ...

Figure 69 Plan of Hellenistic city located at what is now Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan. Source: B. A. Sparkes (ed ...

in fact, it deals with a myth that is so obscure that almost no poet before Callimachus had treated ...

Figure 70 Marble relief by Archelaos showing (bottom) Homer being crowned by Time and Humanity and receiving ...

Medea. Jason and his fellow Argonauts have sailed to the remote easternmost shore of the Black Sea, in what ...

Figure 71 Bronze statuette of dancer; height 20.5 cm, third or second century BC. New York, Metropolitan Museum ...

influenced by an already existing pictorial tradition or the artist of this gem was inspired by the Argonaut ...

jewelers, cabinetmakers, and armorers. The Museum in Alexandria may have been decorated with opulent sculptures ...

Figure 73 Eratosthenes’ method of measuring the Earth’s circumference. Until the nineteenth century the name of o ...

century BC off the coast of the tiny island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete (map 14). The ship had ...

“But what especially disturbed Marcellus was what happened to Archimedes. He was off on his own, working ...

token, Hellenistic art is often very “literary,” in the sense that it alludes to or takes its inspiration from ...