The Hellenistic Period (Essay Sample)

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Hellenistic Period
Between the death of Macedonian monarch Alexander the Great in 323 Bc and the advent of Augustus in Rome in 31 Bc, the Hellenistic period spanned 300 years of Greek history (Erskine, pg.440). When Alexander the Great died, he left his vast conquered country without a reasonable course of progression, and his most trusted commanders divided it into a few enormous realms. The new free parliament, together with the expansion of Greek culture far beyond India, provided for dramatic changes in how Greeks perceived themselves and their surroundings.
Society, Thought & Religion
Other civilizations had always affected Greek art and life, but the extension of region under Alexander the Great's invasions provided more opportunities for bilateral cultural interactions. These exchanges inspired the desire to comprehend, appreciate, and create a variety of individual peoples, resulting in a new universalism in the Greek world. People sought a sense of meaning and purpose and belonging when their mobility increased as a result of territorial expansion.
Assertive tendencies fueled fresh interest in mysterious cults, which sometimes promised retribution in the form of a better afterlife (Gondek, n.p). New deities were introduced to Greece as a byproduct of secular humanism and cultural contact from countries like as Egypt and Syria. As Hellenistic monarchs and queens began to be venerated alongside gods, ruler-cults grew in popularity. A long and tedious legacy of ruler devotion already existed in some areas of the Hellenistic world, such as Egypt, which was governed by a group known as the Ptolemaic dynasty during the Hellenistic period,