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GKROMST 2HB3

FROM ALEXANDER TO CLEOPATRA: COSMOPOLIS AND EMPIRE

Undergraduate

Fall 2024 · C01

Topics

  • Introduction and Philip II; Alexander the Avenger; Alexander's Conquests, I
  • Alexander's Family; Hellenistic Warfare; Alexander's Conquests, II
  • Alexander's Death & Legacy; Succession Crisis; Diadochi
  • Hellenistic Kingship; Seleukid Asia; Antigonid Macedonia
  • Attalid Pergamon; Pyrrhus of Epirus; Hellenistic Greece? Athens and Sparta
  • Written Assignment 1 Due Oct. 8 Hellenistic Art; The Greek Leagues; Indigenous Persons in Hellenistic Egypt
  • Hellenistic Religion; Rebellion and Conflict; Kings and Cities
  • Midterm Oct. 29th End of Macedonia; End of the Attalids
  • Weakening Kingdoms; Egyptian Strife; Rome's Growing Presence
  • Hellenistic Science and Technology; External Threats and Pretenders to Thrones; End of the Seleukids
  • Written Assignment 2 Due Nov. 19th Hellenistic Literature: Poetry; Hellenistic Literature: Prose Hellenistic Philosophy
  • Resisting Rome: Mithridates VI and Cleopatra VII; Cleopatra and Caesar...and Antony; Antony and Octavian: the Fight for Egypt

Readings

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World
    Glenn R. Bugh, editor · 2006 · Required
    Cambridge University Press · ISBN 0521535700
  • Cleopatras
    John Whitehorne · 2001 · First paperback · Recommended / optional
    Routledge · ISBN 0415261325
  • Hellenistic World , Ch. 1 Cleopatras , Ch. 3-4 (recommended)
    See source
  • Hellenistic World , Ch. 5 Hellenistic World , Ch. 7 Cleopatras , Ch. 5-6 (recommended)
    See source
  • Hellenistic World , Ch. 13
    See source
  • Hellenistic World , Ch. 2 Cleopatras , Ch. 7, 12 (recommended)
    See source
  • Hellenistic World , Ch. 4 Cleopatras , Ch. 8 (recommended)
    See source
  • Hellenistic World , Ch. 8 Hellenistic World , Ch. 14
    See source
  • H ellenistic World , Ch. 10 Cleopatras , Ch. 9-10 (recommended)
    See source
  • Cleopatras , Ch. 11 (recommended)
    See source
  • Hellenistic World , Ch. 12
    See source
  • Hellenistic World , Ch. 9 Hellenistic World , Ch. 11 Cleopatras , Ch. 14 (recommended)
    See source
  • Cleopatras , Ch. 13, 15-16 (recommended)
    See source
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