1. Who was the Hellenistic Age? And what is it’s significance?

2. Hellenic vs Hellenistic culture
Hellenic Culture is the classical culture of Greece prior to Alexander the Great
Hellenistic Culture the blending of Greek and Oriental culture that occurred after the death of Alexander the Great

3. The Hellenistic Age (323-31 BCE)
Alexander the Great spent most of his childhood in Greece and was taught by the Greek philosopher Aristotle
While he went on to conquer the Greeks, he himself identified with the culture of Greece
As Alexander went on to conquer Persia and lands farther east he carried and spread the culture

4. The Hellenistic Age (323-31 BCE)
As Alexander’s Empire continued to stretch farther east towards India a variety of different ethnic cultures were incorporated
The Hellenistic Age marks this blending of Greek and Asiatic cultures
The Hellenistic Age would end in 31 BCE with the Roman conquests