TTC Video – Alexander the Great And the Hellenistic Age

This series of lectures examines a crucial period in the history of the ancient world, the age ushered in by the extraordinary conquests of Alexander the Great.

In all the annals of the ancient world, few stories are more gripping than that of the Hellenistic Age. Between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the rise of Rome, Greek culture became the heart of a world-historical civilization whose intellectual, spiritual, and artistic influence endures to this day.

Greeks and Macedonians
Alexander the Divine?
The Blazing Star
Alexander—Myth and Reality
The Formation of the Kingdoms
Egypt Under the Early Ptolemies
Alexandria and the Library
The Seleucid Realm
Pergamum
Bactria, the Edge of the Hellenistic World
Sculpture
Poetry
The Greek Novel
Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics
Kingship and Legitimacy
Benefaction
The Maccabean Revolt, Part I
The Maccabean Revolt, Part II
Rulers and Saviors
Economic Growth and Social Unrest
The Mood of the Hellenistic Age
Hellenism and the Western Mediterranean
The Freedom of the Greeks
Pax Romana

Professor Jeremy McInerney