After Alexander: The Hellenistic Age in the Mediterranean and the Near East

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

Using primary sources in translation and works of modern scholarship, students in this course explore the Hellenistic world from 323 to 30 BCE. Topics to be addressed include: political changes and continuities, cultural and intellectual developments and the problems of sources and evidence. Particular attention is devoted to the nature and consequences of interactions between different cultural and ethnic groups in the Hellenistic period.