1. The Hellenistic Age
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Ch. 5

4. The Hellenistic Map

5. Classical Art and Sculpture
Figures are graceful, strong, and idealized
They value order, balance, and proportion
As time moved on, realism replaced idealism

6. Minoan ceramics

7. Greek Drama Tragedy vs. Comedy Masks, costumes, and chorus
amphitheatres

8. Philosophy Socrates – questioned moral truths
Plato – the perfect society (monarchy ruled by philosopher-kings)
Aristotle – summarized knowledge

9. More Philosophy Sophists - questioned the gods and universal truth
Stoicism (created by Zeno) – divine order of the world, emotions are bad
Epicureanism –
moderation in all things,
harmony, and absence of
pain (gods don’t care)

10. Olympic Games 776 B.C. Dedicated to the God, Zeus
Competed in the nude to show
human perfection and honor
the gods

11. Alexandria, Egypt The most celebrated Hellenistic city
Museums, libraries, lighthouse,
Greek fire ???

12. Astronomy Aristarchus – heliocentrism
Ptolemy – earth is the center of the universe
Eratosthenes – figured the earth’s circumference using geometry

13. Mathematics and Physics
Euclid – geometry textbook The Elements
Archimedes – value of π, strength of levers, Archimedes screw, catapult

14. Archimedes

15. Herodotus, Themistocles, Thucydides

16. Islamic portrayal of Aristotle teaching

17. Hellenistic Architecture