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The Hellenistic Period (CRD 24)
"Crossroads” is a comparative journey that will take you every quarter to a pinnacle moment of Western culture for five weeks, and then to a paired episode from a contemporaneous non-Western culture for another five weeks. Each course stands on its own, and you are welcome to enter the sequence at any time. Every course will also be richly illustrated with slides of art, architecture, and archaeology; and one great book from the world’s best literature, philosophy, or religious thought will be the primary reading for each segment. We invite you to join us on our journey.
In 338 BCE, Philip II of Macedonia met the allied armies of Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea. Their defeat spelled the end of the independent city states of Greece and introduced the Hellenistic age. Alexander the Great, Philip’s heir, spread Greek culture southward to the Nile valley and eastward to the Indus valley. The ancient civilizations of India, Persia, Babylonia, Egypt, and Palestine became part of a Hellenistic empire that stretched from modern Pakistan to the eastern Mediterranean. Alexander’s empire and its successor states were centers of power and trade, and also centers from which Hellenistic artistic, literary, philosophical, and scientific ideas could be developed and disseminated. Both the Romans at one end of the Hellenistic world, and the Maurya Dynasty at the other end, benefited from the Hellenistic vision. Its spirit emerges in the stunning sculptural traditions of Alexandria, Pergamum, and Gandhara, in the great romances of the age, in the philosophical schools of Zeno, Epicurus, and the Neo-Platonists, and in the great mysteries of Kybele, Isis, and Mythras.
Crossroads: 2008 - 2009
(please note: the Winter and Spring Crossroads courses are slightly different from the printed catalogue)
FALL QUARTER 2008
The Hellenistic Period
The Hebrew Tradition
WINTER QUARTER 2009
The Celts
India: The Maurya Dynasty
SPRING QUARTER 2009
The Roman Republic
The Christian Tradition
Edward Steidle
Lecturer in English
Edward Steidle joined Stanford's English faculty in 1984. His area of specialization is medieval art and literature. He is currently working on comparative approaches to the study of ancient European, Asian, and Central American cultures. He also leads travel groups to historic sites in Italy and the Aegean.
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Course Details
Tuesdays
7:00 - 8:50 pm
5 weeks
Sept 23 - Oct 21
1 unit $200
Drop by: Oct 6
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