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Hello, everyone.

I'm Stephen West.

This is philosophize this.

For the last several episodes, we've been talking about the Hellenistic Age.

And as you know by now, this was a period of uncertainty, and many times chaos for

the average citizen living in the Mediterranean Sea region.

But the Hellenistic Age is just one segment of time that's part of a much larger hole

that's known as classical antiquity.

Classical antiquity refers to the events in the Mediterranean Sea region, you know, Greece,

Italy, North Africa, etc.

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