History 290 Oakton Community College December 2008

 Cosmopolis  City-state of the whole world  Unified by Greek language and culture

 Decline of Greek culture  Economic problems  Civil war  Alexander  Champion of Hellenism  Homeric warrior-hero

 New empires  Seleucid – Asia Minor, the East  Antigonid – Greece and Macedonia  Ptolemaic – Egypt, Palestine, Libya

 Few – everyone interested in the Golden Age  Byzantines  Papyrus  Diodorus of Sicily  Hieronymus of Cardia  Duris of Samos  Fragments, inscriptions, archaeology, literature  Perdiccas –  chief minister  The ring

 Arrhidaeus  Philip III  Alexander IV  Lysimachus  Antipater d. 319  Craterus  Bactria  Result:  League of Corinth dissolved  Greece – Lamian  Poleis no long allies War 323-322 but subjects of Macedon

 Too many  Athenian democracy mercenaries  An oligarchy  Athens and Aetolia  Antipater

 Cassander  Cassander  Antigonus the one-  Allied with Antigonus, eyed Ptolemy, Lysimachus  Proposed marriage  Ended after 3 years  Polyperchon appealed  Ptolemy to Olympias  Body snatcher  She splits kingship  Fought/defeated  Battle of the queens Perdiccas  Olympias –  Antipater  Eurydice  Regent for 2 kings  317

 Satrapies reassigned  Eurydice and Philip III  Babylon to Seleucus  assassinated  Died 319

 Polyperchon is regent

 Cassander rules Macedon  Roxane and Alexander IV under house arrest in Amphipolis  Married Thessalonice, half-sister of Alexander  Founded Thessaloniki and Cassandrea  Restored Thebes  Settled down  Antigonus is the power in Asia  His alliance with Cassander, Ptolemy, Lysimachus is unbalanced  War breaks out and in 311 Antigonus allies with Ptolemy and Seleucus  Cassander  311  Thessalonice  Alliance  Ptolemy  Founded  Seleucis  Thessaloniki  Defeated by  Cassandrea Rome in 215 BCE  Thebes restored

 Seleucus c 358- 281  Satrapy system  Taxes  Royal roads  Post  Macedonian army  Coinage  Antioch  Pergamum  Ptolemy I  367-6 – 282  King in 304  Wives  Artacama in Susa  Eurydice  Berenice  History of Alexander  Nothing remains  God after death  Coinage  Taxes  Literacy  Rents  Irrigation  Forced labor  Land reclamation  State monopolies  Varieties of  Fees wheat  tolls

 Weak kings  Ptolemy V Epiphanes  Corruption  196  Inflation  Crowned at Memphis  End of Greek  Commemorated migration  Hieroglyphics  Greek  Revolts  Demotic Egyptian  Gaza  Palestine

 Assimilation  Intermarriage  Bilingual  Egyptian calendar  Egyptian names  mummification

 Final exam

 Wednesday, December 14th

 Bring blue books