CLST 335 Lecture 3: Lecture3
30 Jan 2017
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Did(cid:374)(cid:859)t fight that (cid:373)u(cid:272)h to (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:395)ue(cid:396) eg(cid:455)pt. After defeating persian armies in asia, egyptians were happy to get rid of persian administration so they welcomed alex as their liberator. Egypt is where he started to cultivate himself as a semi-divine ruler. Starts to be represented as son of zeus ammon, like on a coin that was minted by ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al l(cid:455)si(cid:373)a(cid:272)hos afte(cid:396) ale(cid:454)(cid:859)s death: even had customary horns of zeus ammon. Alex wanted to connect with local population through religion: wanted to demonstrate his respect for their customs, relief shows him as a pharaoh sacrificing to egyptian gods. Alex left kleomenes behind and he was to oversee everything and increase revenue, but he was to allow governors already in place to rue as they always had. Plutarch recounts this in life of alexander 26. 4-10 [write out] Founds alexandria on island of pharos because he had a dream where an old man recounts two lines of the odyssey, which mention pharos.
