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*
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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
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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Can we say then that we reproduce a sort of Rome-oriented bias?
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I mean, that's just it. The 'Hellenistic' as often presented is a side show, because after 323 the 'story' shifts to Italy. That's how I was taught in undergrad (but not how I teach), with the Greek world coming first and then basically ending, followed by Rome.
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