HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Chauvinism, Polis, Koinon
7 Apr 2014
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Death of alexander in 323, at babylon, aged 32. By 275: ptolemaic egypt (ptolemy i), seleucid asia (seleucus i), antigonid macedon. ^alexander"s empire had broken up into a number of smaller kingdoms and three great (antigonus i) imperial kingdoms. These three great kingdoms have different characters: the antigonid in macedon were native dynasty ruling as traditional macedonian monarchs. Seleucid in asia were aliens/foreigners in the lands that they ruled. Alexander the great tried to create a unified basis for his rule, in a new hybrid greco- Since the persian war the greeks tended to think of themselves, in relation to the east especially and in relation to non-greeks, in terms of a dichotomy between greeks and. Alexander had justified his invasion of persia as a war of vengeance against the eastern barbarians. Greeks and macedonians that fought with alexander had come to punish and conquer the barbarians, not to share power with them.
