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The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Classical and Hellenistic Greece

Chapter Outline

I. Classical Greek Culture (Ca. 500--323 b.c.)

  1. Philosophy
  2. Greek Tragedy
  3. Greek Comedy: Aristophanes
  4. Historical Writing
  5. The Family in Classical Greece

II. The Rise of Macedonia

  1. The Decline of the Independent Poleis
  2. Philip II of Macedonia
  3. Alexander the Great

III. The Hellenistic Age (323--30 b.c.)

  1. The Dissolution of Alexander's Empire
  2. Economic Life
  3. Literature, Art, and Science
  4. Philosophy and Religion