Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire - Professor Kenneth W. Harl

Table of Contents

LECTURE 24 The Gedrosian Desert and Voyage of Nearchus ..............................58 LECTURE 25 Deification and Succession ..............................................................60 LECTURE 26 Alexander and the Macedonians—Opis ...........................................62 LECTURE 27 Alexander and the Greeks—The Lamian War ..................................64 LECTURE 28 The Diadochoi, 323–316 B.C. ..........................................................67 LECTURE 29 The Partition of the Empire, 316–301 B. ..........................................70 LECTURE 30 The Hellenistic Concert of Powers ...................................................72 LECTURE 31 Macedonian Courts in the Near East................................................74 LECTURE 32 The Hellenization of the Near East ...................................................76 LECTURE 33 The Monetization of the Near East ...................................................78 LECTURE 34 Hellenization and the Gods ..............................................................80 LECTURE 35 The Limits of Hellenization ...............................................................82 LECTURE 36 Alexander the Great and the Shadow of Rome ................................85 v

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Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire - Professor Kenneth W. Harl

Published on Dec 3, 2016History

Sonjce Marceva

In 359 B.C., Macedon was an unstable barbarian kingdom on the fringes of the Hellenic world. Macedon’s kings, members of the Argead dynasty, claimed Greek descent and ruled over a mix of different peoples including Macedonians, but many others as well, none of whom were regarded as Hellenes, or members of the Greek national race. To Greeks, the Macedonians were regarded as “barbarians.” Archaeology has revealed that the Macedonians never participated in the material culture of the Greek world since the Late Bronze Age. Greek immigrants and goods were welcomed, but Macedonians remained a distinct, speaking a language unintelligible to Greek. King Archelaus adopted Attic Greek as the court language, built roads, and established market towns, but his subjects remained in habits far closer to their Balkan neighbors Illyrians, Paeonians, and Thracians.