The Hellenistic Meaning Crisis

Sparta defeats athens, the home of socrates and plato. Sparta is very quickly itself defeated by thebes. Thebess very quickly loses its hagemone. So whereas the greek culture is spread throughout the world, it's also thinned. There's a change hat starts to happen. You can see it in what starts to happen in religions. People are trying to create religions that integrate different cultural deities together. A greek deity, for example, and an egptian deity are integrated together,. perhaps into serapis or something like that. And you also see the elevation of mother goddesses to pan cultural importance.