After Alexander: Hellenization, Cities, and Kingdoms

In this lecture, we look at the Hellenistic world which emerged in the wake of Alexander's conquests and failure of the Successors to keep the empire together as a unified whole.

[billychops]

I love the phrase “gave birth to a male son” 😂😂 as opposed to a female son lol I found that really funny

[andre_santos]

Rome to Rhodes: I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
Rome to Aetolian: I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
Rome to Achaians: I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
Rome to Seleucids: I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
Rome to Egypt: Bros before hoes

[mattstakeontheancients]

It’s amazing to think many of the areas we think of as Islamic lands were in the past Greek like or the fact that Greek culture influenced such a large area of the world. Sad the many of these sites created by Alexander and his generals have been destroyed or lost over time. Imagine buried underneath the earth in Pakistan and Afghanistan are relics of this time period.

[armandom.s.]

If anyone wonders, we know almost nothing about Gedrosia. It usually appears in most Hellenistic maps as an independent kingdom or state, but is hard to understand what happened exactly there. It was part of the Mauryan kingdom after the agreement between Seleucus and Chandragupta (at least the eastern half of the region, probably not all), but during the decline of the Mauryan dynasty the western regions broke away as independent petty kingdoms, and Gedrosia could be one of them. It possible became absorbed by the Seleucid Empire after Antiochus the Great expedition to the East, and later became part of the Indo Greek kingdom. However is hard to prove what happened exactly in Gedrosia until the arrive of the Saka peoples in late 2nd century BC.

[klausbrinck]

27:00 My grandma came to Greece from Nikomidia (written: Nikomedeia), when the Turks threw out the Greeks in 1922... ;-) Her father was a plantage-owner in Nikomidia. In Greece, he got buried in the bottom of a deep well, since his new job was digging wells, and after an accident, where he got buried alive, he was directly left down there... Greeks from Asia Minor, having been much richer and educated than mainland-Greeks in 1922, got very hard exploited as cheap labour in Greece...

[Geopoliticus]

Thank you for this presentation.

I was reading Menander’s Dialogue recently and noticed something. The pressure of maintaining the Hellenistic identity versus the alternate pressure of Indianization seemed to have created an existential identity crisis in him. He in fact comes across as seriously depressed in some parts.

Many of the Indo-Greek kings were most likely Hellenized native Bactrians. Caught between two world cultures, it destroyed their own.

[ancientfalmer]

Man imagine the Roman empire vs a united Alexandrian empire. What a different world it would have been.

[scrotusmaximus]

You really put out a lot of quality content. Ty again.

[santigardipee]

I am working on an M.Div and didn't expect to enjoy classical history so much. Thank you for these lectures. You do touch on more obscure material as you stated in your profile. This is a legitimate resource and should be recommended more in the algorithms.

[BigBennKlingon]

Ya the Greco-Bactrian/Indo-Greek Kingdoms really capture the imagination. It would definitely be cool to see some more archeology done in Afghanistan. Altho I heard that the main Greco-Bactrian site, Ai-Khanoum, was severely looted during the US occupation.

[refractable]

genuinely enjoy writing notes about the successors of Alexander, really appreciate this lecture!

[MegaTang]

40:42 "Empire for sale, in bad condition, needs new king and army."

[MilledSteel]

Excellent content, I can’t believe your knowledge and ability to communicate it so well on this period.

[Equilibruim]

Great video thank you for taking the time to make it!

[JimmyStiffFingers]

Another great vid, dude. This is great stuff to help me sleep or relax. ^-^ will drop a donation when I'm home. Learned a lot from your videos.

[Moredread]

Interesting overview of these successors to Alexander. I know you've done a lot of videos about subjects related to them, but it was clarifying to get an overview of all of them in one video. It's too bad there hasn't been great work to look into the history of the Greeks in India, but I guess there's very little information about them because of the lack of sources that made it to the West before the modern period that lead many early archeologists to look into stuff during the period of colonialism.

[caesarplaysgames]

Just found this channel through this video being recommended and now going on a binge. More good history content is always a good thing.

[DrunkenCoward]

I'm taking a lecture on the Diadochi right not, at university and after the lecture our professor basically turned to us and said "Even as professional historian, the time just after Alexander's death and the first Diadochi Wars are complicated to understand, let alone to easily explain." and my friend later said "That was good to hear. Whenever I read about the Diadochi I feel like a complete idiot."
Because early Greek history is... comparatively easy, at least in broad strokes. Once one gets into details it becomes more difficult, as details are bound to be.
But this early era of Hellenism has so much going on. It's crazy.

[MrStanger]

What a great story! Very well narrated and documented. I wish you could have covered the Maccabean revolt a little further, but this was really a minor episode in the grand scheme of things. Thank you!

[lindakay]

Somehow I've never heard this channel before. But you have got to be the most eloquent, perfectly enunciating speaker I've ever heard!