Lisahistory: The Hellenistic World

History 103 Lisa M. Lane Hellenistic World

Alexander's Empire Animated map

Trade networks cosmopolitanism

Society: Focus on the individual Young boy seated on a rock. Terracotta, made in Boeotia, ca. 300 BC. From Tanagra Praxiteles, Statue of Aphrodite (5th c. BC), British Museum

Public and private Male and female

Religion Praise to you, Isis, the Great One, God’s mother, Lady ofHeaven, Mistress and Queen of the gods.

Hellenistic Philosophy Stoicism http://www.bacp.co.uk/cpj/current/cover_feature3.htm Epicureanism

Diogenes the Cynic On one occasion he saw a child drinking out of its hands, and so he threw away the cup which belonged to his wallet, saying, "That child has beaten me in simplicity." He also threw away his spoon, after seeing a boy, when he had broken his vessel, take up his lentils with a crust of bread.

Artistic Style Shift Hellenic / Classical Hellenistic

Story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt Battle of Actium, 31 BC Julius Caesar Julius Caesar Marc Antony

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