CHAPTER 4 GREECE: MINOAN, MYCENAEAN, HELLENIC, AND HELLENISTIC
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CHAPTER 4
GREECE:
MINOAN, MYCENAEAN, HELLENIC,
AND HELLENISTIC
CIVILIZATIONS,
2000-30 B.C.E.
Minoan and Mycenaean
Civilizations
c. 2000-1200 B.C.E.
The Minoans
The Mycenaeans
Troy, site of Homer’s Illiad
The Fall of Mycenaean Civilization
The Rise of Hellenic
Civilization
c. 1150-500 B.C.E.
The Influence of Geography
The Homeric Age
From Oligarchy to Tyranny
Athens to 500 B.C.E.
Sparta to 500 B.C.E.
Unity and Strife in the Hellenic
World
500-336 B.C.E..
The Persian Wars
Culmination of Athenian Democracy
Athenian Society
Athenian Imperialism
The Peloponnesian War and Aftermath
The Macedonian Unification of Greece
The Greek Genius
The Greek Character
Greek Religious Development
Early Greek Philosophy
Socrates, a Martyr to Truth
Plato and his Theory of Ideas
Aristotle, the Encyclopedic Philosopher
The Greek Genius
Medicine
The Writing of History
Hellenic Poetry and Drama
Hellenic Architecture
Hellenic Sculpture and Pottery
The Hellenistic Age
336-30 B.C.E.
Alexander the Great
The Division of Alexander’s Empire
Hellenistic Economy and Society
Hellenistic Philosophy
Skeptics, Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics
Science and Mathematics
Hellenistic Art and Literature
The Hellenistic Contribution
YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND
Minoan and Mycenaean cultures and
their influence on classical Greece.
Hellenic Greece—its political history and
its astonishing cultural achievements,
culminating in the classical age.
YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND
How Greek culture was diffused and its
life extended during the Hellenistic era.