FlashCards - Hellenistic Age II

What happened after Alexander the Greats death

A power vacuum formed because there was no clear successor.

Alexanders half brother who couldnt rule effectively

Arrhidaeus.

Alexanders wife and significance of her child

Roxane she gave birth to Alexander IV after his death.

Who took over as regent and divided the empire

Perdiccas.

Meaning of Diadochoi

Successors the generals who fought for Alexanders empire.

Diadoch who took over Egypt and Libya

Ptolemy.

Title Ptolemy took in 305 BCE

Ptolemy I Soter Savior.

Where Alexanders body was finally buried

Alexandria Egypt.

What Ptolemy did with Alexanders body

Placed it in a golden coffin and gave him divine honors.

Ruler who made Alexandria a center of learning

Ptolemy II.

Two famous institutions Ptolemy II built in Alexandria

The Library and the Museum of Alexandria.

Major religious text translated in Alexandria

The Jewish Bible Old Testament into Greek.

Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible

The Septuagint.

Language the Septuagint was written in

Koine Greek.

What Koine Greek means

Common Greek the shared language of the Hellenistic world.

Years Koine Greek was widely used

Around 300 BCE to 300 CE.

Meaning of Hellenism

The spread of Greek culture and language in the East after Alexander.

Definition of syncretism

The blending of Greek and local Eastern customs.

How someone became Greek in the Hellenistic world

Through Greek education language and religious practice not by blood.

Time period Hellenistic art covers

323 to 31 BCE.

Key features of Hellenistic art

Emotion movement and realism.

Sculpture showing extreme emotion and sea serpents

Laocoon.

Small art objects common in Hellenistic homes

Terracotta figurines of everyday people.

Victory of Samothrace sculpture represents

The goddess Nike landing on a ship symbolizing fleeting victory.

Goddess representing changing fortune in the Hellenistic era

Tyche Fortune