Before the Romans, there was Ancient Greece. Come explore Philip of Macedonia and Alexander the Great, and all the wonderful history of the ancient Greek people.
- The Greek World
- Philip II of Macedonia (Alexander’s father)
- Steward of the realm to take the throne by force. Expansionism
- Demothenes and Athens (338)
- Alexander flanked him
- Head of Hellenistic League (not King of Greece)
- Philip’s misteps
- Alexander’s mother, Olympia (Cult of Dionysius)
- Macedonian wife (to have Macedonian) - Alexander vs Philip
- Asassinated by a male lover?
- Philip II of Macedonia (Alexander’s father)
- Expansionism
- Calvary (as opposed to Greek Phalanx)
- Alexander rulling Persia
- Macedonia: kingship
- Greeks: democracies, oligarchies
- Persia: deified emperor
- Broken Empire
- Ptolemy Kingdom - Egypt
- Seleucid Kingdom - modern Syria, Iran
- Pergamum Kingdom - modern Turkey
- Greek Culture Expansion
- Not borrowing other cultures
- Learning, education
- Culture (Roman = citizenship)
- Biblical Word and Greek Expansion
- Jewish Hellenization
- Koine Greek (LXX)
- LXX - translation under Ptolemy I Soter (70 scholars)
- Jewish Resistance to hellenizaion (Maccabean revolt)
- Antiochus III (Supportive of Jews, repared temple)
- Antiochus IV (Conformity)
- Galvanize regions - Jerusalem must conform - all must stupport gods
- Pig sacrificed at the temple (Judah Maccabee - wage anti Hellenization war against Antiochus)