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HI361F Alexander the Great	TuTh 3.40-5.00
Prof. Michael Arnush	Ladd 209 x5462
Email the class	Off. hrs. M9 TuTh11

PANEL DISCUSSION, MARCH 4: 331-324 BCE

Persian Customs and Assimilation The final defeat of Darius signalled the conquest of the Persian Empire. Trace the development of the cultural contact, and conflict, between Alexander and the Greco-Macedonian tradition on the one hand, and the Persian (a conglomeration of many "sub-"cultures) on the other. To what extent did Alexander actively seek to assimilate Persian customs into his own, and how did this assimilation (or lack thereof) manifest itself? How do the sources assess his policies of cultural absorption? How did his colleagues respond?