The Age of Alexander the Great - bmc.ARCH.B222.001.F26
Section outline
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Please read the syllabus!
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Reading
- A. B. Bosworth, “Alexander the Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic Age,” in CCHW, 9-27
- Stewart 2014, Introduction
- Thonemann 2015, Ch. 1 (“The Idea of the Hellenistic”)
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Reading
- W. L. Adams, “The Hellenistic Kingdoms,” in CCHW, 28-51
- Thonemann 2016, Ch. 2 (“From Alexander to Augustus”)
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Reading
- J. B. Scholten, “Macedon and the Mainland, 280-221,” in CHW, 134-58
- Thonemann 2016, Ch. 3 (“Demetrius the Besieger and Hellenistic Kingship”)
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Reading
- A Selection of Hellenistic Greek Inscriptions (document prepared by me)
- P. Ceccarelli, “Letters and Decrees: Diplomatic Protocols in the Hellenistic Period,” in P. Ceccarelli at al. (ed.), Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 147-84
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Reading
- Stewart 2014, Focus I (“The Great Altar of Pergamon”)
- U. Kästner, V. Kästner, M. Papini and A. Scholl, “The Kingdom of Pergamon,” in C. A. Pícon and S. Hemingway (ed.), Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016), 26-53
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Reading
- B. S. Ridgway, “The Ludovisi ‘Suicidal Gaul’ and His Wife: Bronze or Marble Original, Hellenistic or Roman?” Journal of Roman Archaeology 31 (2018), 248-58
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- M. Canepa, “Commagene,” in OHHRNE, 471-90
- O. Gabelko, “Bithynia and Cappadocia: Royal Courts and Ruling Society in the Minor Hellenistic Monarchies,” in A. Erskine et al. (ed.), The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2017), 319-42
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Reading
- L. Hannestad, “The Seleucid Kingdom,” in D. T. Potts (ed.), A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2012), 984–1000
- A. Lichtenberger, “Art in Hellenistic Syria,” in OHHRNE, 69-82
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Reading
- M. Trundle and C. de Lisle, “Coinage and the Creation of the Seleukid Kingdom,” in E. Anagnostou-Laoutides and S. Pfeiffer (ed.), Culture and Ideology under the Seleukids: Unframing a Dynasty (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 57-75
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Midterm Exam due 10/9 at 11:59 PM.