CLAA06H3 Lecture 8: CLAA06 – Lecture 8.docx
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Spartans defeated by greeks at battle of salamis and battle of plataea. Son alexander takes over: both show greek heritage. Hellenistic period (323 122 bc: alexandria, city founded by alexander and turned into a famous centre of learning by his, here ptolemy established as research institute called the mouseion/museum successor ptolemy i. Place of the muses": great library of alexandria, lighthouse of alexandria. Son of aeson, rightful ruler of iolcus, an important bronze age city in thessaly. Jason and medea in greece: stories re-told (or invented) by the athenian dramatists, pelias has forced jason"s parents to commit suicide, and won"t relinquish the throne of. Iolcus, so medea tricks his daughters into killing him they think they are re-juvenating him. Theseus legend, and mother of medus who will found the race of persians enemies of the greeks. Jason is killed when the rotten prow of the argo falls on his head an unheroic death!
