The City States of the Hellenistic World I

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AHST 222 / 322 Lecture 13: The City-States of the Hellenistic World, I.

Modern Works:

V. Ehrenberg, The Greek State
P. Green, Classical Bearings, Alexander to Actium
Donald Kagan, The Great Dialogue
E.J. Owens, City in the Greek and Roman World
F.E. Peters, The Harvest of Hellenism
G. Shipley, The Greek World after Alexander
Thompson & Wycherley, The Athenian Agora

People and Places:

Chaeronea (338 B.C.)	Crannon (322 B.C.)	Chremonidean War (227(6?)-262 B.C.)
Mithridates VI	Stoic /s	Cynic /s
Epicurus / eans	Zeno	Philippi
Antioch	Seleucia	Laodicea
Apamea	Stratonicea	Ptolemais
Antiochus IV	Agora	Apolloniasts
Serapiasts	Hermaists	Iobacchoi
Satrapy / ies	Nomes	Toparchies

Terms:

polites = citizen

idiotes = private person

eleutheria = liberty