CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 34: Alexander and the Hellenistic World
13 Dec 2017
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Philip: he is dead now previously created a new hetairoi, 2 of these are still around (who belong to alexander"s older group of hetairoi, parmenio, cleitus. Alexander: these were men that alexander grew up with and were the next generation of hetairoi could be tension with above group (who is the older group and looks to. Philip) and the below names (younger group, bold, look at alexander: hephaestion his best friend, not his best general, philotas, son of parmenio, ptolemy, antigonus, seleucus. Instead of philippi he names a new city after himself: maintain his control this is a fort designed to maintain control. Oracle of zeus ammon: greek god zeus and egyptian god ammon, syncretism the fusing together of deities. In a world where there are many gods and goddesses, but gods and goddesses with similar characteristics were fused together.
