HIST 1001 Lecture 3: Hellenistic World
Hellenistic World
I. Greek Philosophy
A. Socrates
1. Doesn’t write so we only have accounts from his students, especially
Plato
2. Only philosopher to be put to death
3. Philosophy not only influence the Greek world but also the Muslim, etc.
B. Plato
1. Divorces himself from Athenian society and sets up a school
• Academy
2. Believed that the quest of truth was separate from our world
• Idea of the material and spiritual world
3. Believed that only those who have been enlightened and understand
truth should be the leaders
4. Uses an Allegory to try and explain why they killed Socrates, he saw
the light and truth that others didn’t
C. Aristotle
1. Works get lost for a little as the people likes Plato’s teachings better
(Christianity) but later come back
II. Hellenistic World
A. The Rise of Macedonia
1. Very different from Greek world
• High mountains, big forests with lots of trees
• Tribal people known as very good horsemen
• Greeks saw them as violent, backwards and not as refined as them
2. Phillip of Macedon
• United Macedonians against foreigners
• Married to Olympias
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