Thesiss

In this dissertation I explore how people in the eastern Mediterranean responded to imperial rule under the Achaemenid Persians (539-331 BCE) and Alexander the Great and his Greco-Macedonian successors, the Ptolemies (c. 300-201 BCE) and Seleucids (c. 201-104 BCE). To get an int…

The term "Hellenization" signals the existence of a phenomenon or process in which a culture that is not Greek might become more Greek. A "Hellenized" culture, by implication, is one that is as close to a Greek one as possible but is still, at its core, somehow not identical. Th…