OLLI Workshop: Critical Historical Periods in the Middle East

Leader: Theo Pavlidis (t.pavlidis@ieee.org)

Handout No. 2 - February 8, 2010

Topic of the Second Meeting: The Hellenistic period. Intellectual Flurishing. Spread of Greek language and of Jewish religion. Interaction between Hellenism and Judaism.

Visuals for Second Meeting

	Greek Lands at 323BC. Dark shade Alexander's domain, light gray other Greek areas.
Map courtesy of Prof. Howard M. Wiseman. Color Original at http://hobbit.ict.griffith.edu.au/~wiseman/Roman/GreekPerspective.html#323_BC

Greek-Jewish interaction The picture shown on the left is taken from the cover the book (in Greek) Hellenism and Judaism by M. G. Fougias. The word ACTHP means star in Greek.