HIST-UA 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Darius Iii, Phalanx, Hellenistic Period
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Greek poetry and drama (chapter 5 section 4, greek tragedies and comedies. Tragedy: a play which told a story of human suffering, which ends in disaster. Comedy: a humorous which mocks people and customs: the writing of history with thucydides and herodotus. Thucydides: a man who wrote about the peloponnesian war and stressed the need to avoid bias. Herodotus: an ancient greek historian who wrote the persian war. Athens is to the south of macedonia. Macedonia would mostly have threats from the land: king philip ii of macedonia b. i. At the battle of chaeronea, he defeated athens and thebes. He also had macedonians marry gov"t people of other city- states to form alliance: alexander and his conquering of the persian empire. Since phillip got all of greece, alexander had lots of troops to fight. The phalanx formation was too much for darius iii, so they were swiftly defeated (334 bce) Darius iii wanted revenge, but even though persia outnumbered.
