CLAS 3020 Lecture Notes - Phalanx, Hellenic Navy, Diadochi

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 3020
• Professor: Andrew Sherwood

Document Summary

Strymon major river and eastern boundary of macedonia. Thucydides talks about the macedonians in the 5th c. Diadochoi several men taking over after alexander"s death (ptolemy and. Chaeronea 338 end of the classical greek world, greece and philip ii meet for war in boeotia. Synhedrion assembly of the greeks, philip 339 takes them all to corinth to discuss. Philip born in 382, becomes friends with 2 political leaders as a hostage in thebes and learns their military techniques and political strategies. Both of them (p and a) became labeled as hegemon leaders of the. Their conquest of persia, even though other greek city-states helped with ships and man-power, was largely macedonian. Macedonia takes greece and then turns on persia. Macedonia is a kingdom, not a polis. Consists of a large coastal plain and extensive hills and plateaus to the north with high mountains farther north (nice defensive boundaries)