Alexander, son of Philip the Macedonian
“Philip II
came to power in Macedonia in 359 BC. Althought speaking a dialect of Greek,
the Macedonians lay on the fringes of Greek culture and had contributed little
to Greek political, socio-economic and artistic life.”
Charles
Gates,Ancient Cities:The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and
Egypt, Greece, and Rome,page 269
“With Alexander’s
conquests, West Asia and Egypt were brought into the fold of Greek culture. The
newly formed Greek kingdoms of the Hellenistic period would be much influenced,
however, by the Near Eastern and Egyptian cultures they were now controlling. ”
Charles
Gates,Ancient Cities:The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and
Egypt, Greece, and Rome,page 270
Bilkent University:Charles
Gates received his Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of
Pennsylvania (1979) and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill before joining the faculty at Bilkent in 1990.
His teaching and research
interests include Greek archaeology; Cilicia, Cyprus, and the Levant in the
first millennium BC; and Byzantine art and archaeology.
He is the author of
Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and
Egypt, Greece, and Rome, 2nd edn (London & New York: Routledge, 2011).
A
member of the Kinet Höyük excavation project since 1993, he works primarily on
the site's Iron Age and Persian and Hellenistic levels.