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Preconditions for the Emergence of the Hellenistic World

Preconditions for the Emergence of the Hellenistic World.

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Preconditions for the Emergence of the Hellenistic World

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  1. Preconditions for the Emergence of the Hellenistic World

  2. “The world of Hellenism was a changed and enlarged world. Though the particularism of the Greek city-state was to remain vigorous enough in fact, it had broken down in theory; it was being replaced by universalism and its corollary, individualism. The idea emerges of an oecumene or ‘inhabited world’ as a whole, the common possession of civilized men.”W.W. Tarn, Hellenistic Civilization

  3. “The 380s are a turning point. Till that decade the main lines of division in Greek society had remained constant for nearly a century, while the dominant patterns of social articulation had been stable for nearly 300 years. Thenceforward all the elements in this picture undergo rapid change. New centers of political and military force arise and impinge strongly on events: monarchy, cavalry, and mercenaries all assume far greater importance; and changed attitudes, beliefs, and tastes substantially modify the social institutions of the states.”J.K. Davies

  4. The Creation of Classical Greece

  5. Aeschines, 2.74 “The political speakers…got up and…bade you gaze upon the Propylaea of the Acropolis, and to recall the sea battle at Salamis and the tombs and war trophies of your ancestors.”

  6. Plutarch, Moralia 841f (on Athenian law of the 330s) “…that bronze statues of the poets Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides be erected, that their tragedies be written out and kept in the public depository, and that the secretary of the city should read them through for comparison to the actors; it should be unlawful to depart from the authorized text in acting.”

  7. Logos over Mythos Reason and Secularism in the Fourth Century

  8. Plato, Republic, 10.607acf. Plato’s Ion on rhapsodes and poetic inspiration “For if you grant admission to the honeyed Muse in lyric or epic, pleasure and pain will be the lords of your city instead of law and that which shall from time to time have approved itself to the general reason as the best.”

  9. F.W. Walbank on Eratosthenes of Cyrene (275-194 BCE) “His most striking accomplishment was to measure the earth’s circumference by recording the angle of shadow cast by a stick at Alexandria (7 1/3 degrees) on the day of the summer solstice, when there was no shadow at Syene (Aswan), which he assumed to lie on the same line of longitude as Alexandria.”

  10. Cult and Ritual Personal Salvation, Mysteries, and Hero Cult of the Living

  11. Plutarch, Lysander, 18 “The general of noble Greece Who came from wide-ranging Sparta We shall hymn. O ie paian!”

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