CLAA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Attalid Dynasty, Amun, Gnaeus Naevius
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Early rome con"t alexander and the hellenitic world. Philip ii (c. 359-336: sarissa, demosthenes(384- 322, battle of cheroneai (338 bce) Alexander iii the great : 356 323. The hellenistic world :323 -31 bce: personal monarchy : seleucids, antigonids, ptolemies and attalids, pyrrhus to epirus. His life is a lesson, being happy with what you have, He is rich and plabean it istaken as political threat ; make himself the king of rome. Romans feeling threaten then name cincinnatus as dictator. Cincinnatus leutenat ; murders spurius } seen as good resist his authority. One of the most glorious deeds }it was seen as bad, but cissora likes it because he also excecuted people. He got exiled from rome, he opposes the redistributing of soils of war. Early roman source (220) naevius : poet, he wrote in greek: rival (enius): wrote in greek meter: Dictator 396, 386: veli, galic sakc, neavius (220-200)
