CHAPTER 4 GREECE: MINOAN, MYCENAEAN, HELLENIC, AND HELLENISTIC CIVILIZATIONS, B.C.E.

Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations c B.C.E. The Minoans The Mycenaeans Troy, site of Homer’s Illiad The Fall of Mycenaean Civilization

The Rise of Hellenic Civilization c B.C.E. The Influence of Geography The Homeric Age From Oligarchy to Tyranny Athens to 500 B.C.E. Sparta to 500 B.C.E.

Unity and Strife in the Hellenic World B.C.E.. The Persian Wars Culmination of Athenian Democracy Athenian Society Athenian Imperialism The Peloponnesian War and Aftermath The Macedonian Unification of Greece

The Greek Genius The Greek Character Greek Religious Development Early Greek Philosophy Socrates, a Martyr to Truth Plato and his Theory of Ideas Aristotle, the Encyclopedic Philosopher

The Greek Genius Medicine The Writing of History Hellenic Poetry and Drama Hellenic Architecture Hellenic Sculpture and Pottery

The Hellenistic Age B.C.E. Alexander the Great The Division of Alexander’s Empire Hellenistic Economy and Society

Hellenistic Philosophy Skeptics, Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics Science and Mathematics Hellenistic Art and Literature The Hellenistic Contribution

YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND Minoan and Mycenaean cultures and their influence on classical Greece. Hellenic Greece—its political history and its astonishing cultural achievements, culminating in the classical age.

YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND How Greek culture was diffused and its life extended during the Hellenistic era.