CLCV 2500 Lecture 21: Class 21 (Hellenistic Literature)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 2500
• Professor: Yukai Li

Document Summary

You can know the meaning how good a life was after death. Death leads to meaning: the importance of context to myth. Alexandria in the hellenistic world: the hellenistic period begins with the death of alexander in 323 bc and ends with the. It saw the expansion of the greek world: the traditional geographical core of greek culture is clustered around the aegean and southern greece. Philip tells the people how they will be ruled, so the people have no more choice: philip was assassinated, and his son alexander took over. He drinks and gets sick (might have been poisoned): he left no heir, so there was 40 years of war between his generals who wanted to succeed him. After the war, there were kingdoms made throughout the empire. Ptolemaic kings: were great sponsors of culture. Because the greeks in egypt are a new presence, the kingdom for ptolemies is a new organization.