Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age

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Call Number: BOCD 938.07 McI Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 6-week checkout	BOCD 938.07 McI Oversize	6-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Contains 24 lectures. Each lecture is 30 minutes.
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.

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