The Spread of Greek Culture

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The Spread of Greek Culture

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Alexandria

• During Hellenistic Era, cultural center
• Philosophers
• Scientists
• Poets
• Writers
• More than 500,000 scrolls in library

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Support

• New cities being founded
• Kings paid good salaries for architecture,
  statues, etc.
• Kings paid writers (most literature is lost now)
• Athens was the center of Greek theater

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Appolonius of Rhodes

• Wrote epic poems
• Wrote Argonautica, about Jason and other heroes

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Theocritus

• Poet
• Short poems about the beauty of nature

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Epicurus

• Philosopher
• Epicureanism
• Happiness is the goal of life
• Everyone should seek out pleasure

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Zeno

• Philosopher
• Stoicism
• People have the duty to serve their city
• Happiness comes from reason, not following your
  emotions

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Astronomers

• Study stars, planets and other heavenly bodies

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Aristarchus

• Astronomer
• Claimed sun was at the center of universe
• Earth circled the sun

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Aristarchus

• Aristarchus's 3rd century BC calculations on the
  relative sizes of the Earth, Sun and Moon, from a
  10th century CE Greek copy

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Eratosthenes

• Astronomer
• Earth is round
• Measured earths circumference using geometry
• 24,675 miles, 185 miles off

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Euclid

• Most famous mathematician
• Wrote book Elements
• Plane geometry points, lines, angles, etc.

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Fragment of Euclids Elements
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Archimedes

• Mathematician
• Solid geometry- spheres, cylinders
• Figured out the value of Pi
• Inventor
• Catapults

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Archimedes

• Archimedes is said to have remarked about the
  lever "Give me a place to stand on, and I will
  move the Earth."

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Hypatia

• Mathematician
• Studied math, philosophy, astronomy
• WOMAN!
• Her writings and comments have survived

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Hipparchus

• Astronomer
• Created system to explain how planets and stars
  move

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Hippocrates

• Scientist
• Wrote medical code of good behavior
• Doctor

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Hippocratic Corpus (His Book)
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Hippocratic Oath

• Oath taken by doctors oath to take care of
  their patients and try not to harm them