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Recommended Primary Sources

• Polybius: The Roman Maniple vs. The Macedonian Phalanx
• Arrian: Speech of Alexander the Great
• The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean of the First Century
• Diogenes Laërtius: The Stoics

The Conquest of the Polis

Texts:

• Justin: The Beginning of Philip of Macedon's Reign, c. 359-352 BCE
• Diodorus Siculus: The Battle of Chaeronea, c. 338 BCE
• Arrian: Anabasis Alexandri: Book VIII (Indica)

Images:

• Bust of Philip II
• Bust of Alexander the Great
• The Battle of Issus
• Maitreya

The Successor Kingdoms, 323 - ca. 100 BC

Texts:

• The Rosetta Stone: Translation of the Greek Section
• Plutarch: Demetrius
• Plutarch: Pyrrhus

East Meets West in the Successor Kingdoms

Text:

• First Maccabees

Images:

• Coin of Arsinoe II
• Winged Victory of Samothrace
• Elephant Plate
• Dionysius Riding a Panther
• Lacoon
• Venus de Milo

The Search for Truth: Hellenistic Thought, Religion, and Science

Texts:

• Menander: Epitrepontes
• Apollonius Rhodius: The Argonautica
• Diogenes Laërtius: The Cynics
• Greek Magical Papyri Book I, Book II, Book III, and Interpretations of Magical Herbs
• Plutarch: Marcellus

Images:

• Temple of Isis Ceremony
• Bust of Archimedes