HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Romantic Period
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Hellenistic Period
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Classical Period
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Archaic Period
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Golden Period
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Detailed explanation-1: -The conventional end of the Hellenistic period is 31 B.C., the date of the Battle of Actium. Octavian, who later became the emperor Augustus, defeated Marc Antony’s fleet and, consequently, ended Ptolemaic rule. The Ptolemies were the last Hellenistic dynasty to fall to Rome.
Detailed explanation-2: -Introduction. The three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the rise of Augustus in Rome in 31 B.C.E. are collectively known as the Hellenistic period (1).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Classical period came before the Hellenistic Era. This was the period in Greek history before the time of Alexander the Great.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hellenistic Greece’s definitive end was with the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, when the future emperor Augustus defeated Greek Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, the next year taking over Alexandria, the last great center of Hellenistic Greece.