Review on Hellenistic Culture

Today in class we reviewed about Hellenistic Culture
1. HellenisticCulture in Alexandria

  • Hellenistic culture is a blend of Greek, Indian, Egyptian, and Persian cultures.
  • Koine was the language they spoke
  • Alexandria was the center of commerce, trade, and diverse cultures/civilization
  • had a huge population
  • Alexandria Attraktions
  •  Alexander's coffin
  • Pharos(light house)
  • Library which has 500,000 papyrus scrolls
2.Science and Technology
  • Astronomy
  • Aristarchus- found out that the sun is at least 300 times bigger than the earth, and the earth and other planets revolved around the sun
  • Ptolemy-Disagreed with Arist. He thought the earth was the center of the solar system and everything revolves around us.( this wrong theory was used for 14 centuries)
  • Eratosthenes- Estimated the real size of the earth and said it's round.
  • Mathematics and Physics
  • Euclid- wrote the book of Geometry(The Element)
  • Archimedes-Estimated the value of pi, explained law of lever.
  • The Archimedes screw- could raise water form the ground
3. Philosophy and Art
  • Stoicism and Epicureanism 
  • Zeno- found the school of stoicism ( People should all do the right things under God's law, and control ourselves)
  • Epicurus- Found the school of Epicureanism.(God's not interested at all in human behaviors and the only real object are the ones that could be perceived by the five senses)
  • Realism in Sculptures
  • Colossus of Rhodes- The largest known statue of the Hellenistic world. Bronzed and is more than 100 feet tall.
  • By 150BC, the Hellenistic world was declined , a new city Rome arise.

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