Having completed a chronological overview of the Ancient Greek world, I now want to turn to some important themes & ideas about more specific parts of Greek society that I think still have relevance to how we understand and experience the modern world. The first of these is the...

As the Hellenistic Successor Kingdoms spread, the encounter between Greek culture & Eastern indigenous populations informed a new cultural milieu. An excellent case study for the Hellenisation process is the site of Ai Khanoum, in Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The city was occupied from 280...

Following on from Classical Athens, it's time to move into the transition period leading up to the Hellenistic & Roman era of Greece. We should first call to mind that the term “Hellenisation” and “Hellenistic” are nomenclature that we coined, not so much terms that...