Spread of Hellenistic Culture

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Spread of Hellenistic Culture

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What is Hellenistic Culture?

• Greece was known as Hellenic
• Alexanders empire brought Egypt, Persia, and
  India under one ruler
• Cultures blended
• Koine developed as the language

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Alexandria

• City in Egypt was the cultural center
• Good harbor and location brought traveling
  merchants
• Had large lighthouse, library, museum
• Library had 1/2 million scrolls

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Science In Alexandria

• Astronomy
• Aristarchus estimated sun was 300 times larger
  than earth. Way low, but people originally
  thought it to be smaller than Greece.
• First proposed that earth rotates around the sun

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Science In Alexandria

• Math and Physics
• Euclid created geometry that we know today
• Archimedes estimated the value of pi.

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Philosophy and Art

• Stocism
• Zeno human desires, power, and wealth are all
  dangerous
• Epicurianism
• Epicurus The only real objects are those we can
  percieve with the 5 senses. Greatest good comes
  from virtuous conduct and absence of pain

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Sculpture

• Colossus of Rhodes
• Largest statue of the day. 100 ft high
• One of the 7 wonders of the world
• Hellenistic sculptors created natural works not
  perfect people like classical Greeks

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