Hellenism

Classical Greece / Golden Age
Persian Wars (490s - 479 B.C.) to Alexander the Great (r. 336 - 323 B.C.)
Athens
Delian League

Eastern Mediterranean
Macedonia
Philip
Alexander "the Great" (356-323 B.C.)
Hellenistic kingdoms

• Antigonid
• Selucid
• Ptolemy

Roman Empire
province < pro-vincia
consul > pro-consul

"Captive Greece took her barbarian captors captive."

A.D. 392 - Suppression of pagan cults
Theodosius, emperor

Myth
absolutism of reality
divide and conquer

Earth	Demeter
Sea	Poseidon
Sky	Zeus
Death	Hades
War	Ares (gr.) / Mars (lat.)

Philosophy

• Pre-Socratic
  • Pythagoras - form
  • Heraclitus - fire
  • Democritus - atoms
• Classical
  • Socrates (d. 399 B.C.)
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
• Post-Aristotelian (Hellenistic)
  • Epicurus
    • ataraxia - tranquillity of the soul
  • Zeno > stoic
    • apatheia - freedom from passion

Allegory of the Cave
Doctrine of the Line
Platonic ascent

Philosophy

• Pre-Socratic
  • Pythagoras - form
  • Heraclitus - fire
  • Democritus - atoms
• Classical
  • Socrates (d. 399 B.C.)
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
• Post-Aristotelian (Hellenistic)
  • Epicurus
    • ataraxia - tranquillity of the soul
  • Zeno > stoic
    • apatheia - freedom from passion