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Student Handout 6.4 The Spread of Hellenistic Culture Background: The Greek historian Arrian wrote The Life of Alexander the Great 400 years after Alexander’s death. In it, Arrian describes Alexander’s conquests and personal life. In this excerpt Arrian describes two policies (government actions) Alexander made near the end of his life. Reading Question: How did Alexander try to mix Macedonian, Greek, Persian, and Bactrian people and cultures? Directions: Annotate this reading following your teacher’s directions. Arrian, The Life of Alexander the Great Here at Susa he [Alexander] held wedding ceremonies for the high officers of the Hetaeri; he also took a wife himself — Barsine, Darius’ eldest daughter … He had already married Roxane, daughter of Oxyartes of Bactria…. Similarly, the other officers — eighty all together — were given young women of the noblest Persian and Median blood as their brides. The marriage ceremonies were in the Persian fashion…. Here in Susa, Alexander received … the governors of the territories he had previously overrun. They brought with them some 30,000 young fellows, all boys of the same age, all wearing the Macedonian battledress and trained on Macedonian lines. Alexander called them his Epigoni — “inheritors” — and it is said that their coming caused much bad feeling among the Macedonians…. Reading Question: How did Alexander try to mix Macedonian, Greek, Persian, and Bactrian people and cultures? Vocabulary Hetaeri: elite Macedonian soldiers Darius: the king of Persia, defeated by Alexander in 331 BCE Median: a group of people in Persia Persian and Median blood: from Persian noble families overrun: defeated and conquered Teaching California 6.4 The Spread of Hellenistic Culture Page 1 Copyright © 2019, Regents of the University of California .

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