CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Antigonid Dynasty, Northern Greece, Antikythera Mechanism
3 Feb 2016
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Polis was not as important after the mid 4th century. After 350"s we start to see a new source and kind of power. Macedon is in northern greece, rich in resources like grain and timber, and already pretty powerful in the classical period: greeks considered macedonians as barbarians, because they fought with the. Persians and they had many cultural differences such as polygamy and drinking wine without mixing with water. Philip of macedon (resigned 359 336 bce: in 359 philip became king. First blue, 6 years later took over green area, then thrace. But his attempts were futile, and philip defeated at battle of chaeronea: because of this the autonomy was gone, polis was ruled by someone. Modeled himself on achilles, slept with illiad (and dagger), mentor was aristotle. Greeks believed this young new guy would be easy to control, and then alexander levels. Thebes, so then greeks had nothing to say. Then alexander wanted to move to asia.
