Child: What is the Hellenistic Period? Me: It’s an artificial label given to a period often minimized as a transitory one between the military conquest and imperial failure of Alexander and the consolidation of Rome’s eastern expansion. Child: *doesn’t actually exist*
I find 'Hellenistic' as a period descriptor really frustrating too, since it frames it as, well, 'Greek...-ish.' Eash. I think if I had a blank slate, I'd want a name that evoked the political situation, a 'Mediterranean Concert of Powers' perhaps.
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Oh for sure, it opens up the highly problematic can of worms that is “Hellenization.” I understand periodization is a necessary evil for many reasons, but much is lost with the specific label of Hellenistic
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Well and it also is very eastern-Mediterranean focused. We don't talk about 'Hellenistic-period Rome' or 'Hellenistic-period Carthage' (in part because we have the 'Middle Republic' label to cover most of it), which further sidelines the 'Hellenistic' by cutting Rome out of it.
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I think that you historians should stop beating about the bush and call it the White Album Period and accept that it's a universal story of a simple earlier period being infused with lush eastern influences to produce the most exciting but challenging work.
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I leave it to better informed minds than mine to produce a definitive mapping of classical history to Beatles albums. Except that Jazz is obviously the Minoans and Robert Johnson is Prometheus.
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