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12 kwi 2024 · The Hellenistic era, so named by J. G. Droysen, begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and ends in 31 BCE, when the Romans effectively took control of the Mediterranean after the battle of Actium. The term was later applied to the cultural output of the age by Wilamowitz.
- Dee L. Clayman
Dee L. Clayman studied classics at Wellesley College (A.B....
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- Greek History: Hellenistic
The Hellenistic period, from the conquests of Alexander the...
- Dee L. Clayman
During the Hellenistic period, Greek cultural influence reached its peak in the Mediterranean and beyond. Prosperity and progress in the arts, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy, and science characterize the era.
Hellenistic literature, its features, characteristics and diversity, and so offer some unified definition for the volume's chronological, geographical, literary and linguistic remit.
This article examines Hellenistic poetry by outlining the gradual separation between literary genres and the performance contexts within which they originally developed. The Hellenistic poets felt the gap and tried to reconstruct a literary past from which they felt separated.
14 gru 2009 · The Hellenistic period, from the conquests of Alexander the Great (334 BCE) to the conquest of the Ptolemaic kingdom by Rome (30 BCE), marks the greatest expansion of Greek culture but also the beginning of a transformation of Greek political institutions, society, religion, and culture.
28 mar 2008 · INTRODUCTION. The astounding growth of the Macedonian empire in the second half of the fourth century resulted in a fundamental political restructuring of the Greek world; it also promoted radical cultural changes which turned intellectual and artistic endeavour irreversibly in new directions.
15 kwi 2008 · A guide to the literature of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE to the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Provides overviews of the social, political, intellectual and...
