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Growth of Knowledge People begin to study Go to Alexandria Library with 500,000 scrolls New cities are being founded and old ones are being rebuilt Statues and sculptures in streets and houses
The Arts Money is spent to support writers Very little writing remains today Rhodes-Epic poem Argonautica Theocritus-wrote poems about nature Epicureanism-philosopher-taught happiness as a goal of life Zeno develops Stoicism—people have to serve their city
Science Astronomers study stars and planets Aristarchus—claimed sun was the center of the universe Eratosthenes—measured shadows and sun to accurately determine the size of the earth
Math Euclid-most famous Greek Mathematician Creates plane Geometry How it relates to one another Archimedes of Syracuse-worked on solid geometry Created the catapult