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oikoumene
inhabited world
Diaspora
Jews who lived outside of Palestine
Callimachus
Alexandrian scholar-poet
Pretty big Homer fan
urged poets to write short, good poems
Apollonius
wrote epic
Argonautica
about Jason to tick off teacher Callimachus
Theocritus
wrote pastorals about nature
Menander
wrote plays about Athens in late fourth century
Polybius
wrote histories about rise of Rome
Eratosthenes
alexandrian geographer
divided planet into climactic zones
declared that oceans are joined
accurately measured Earth's circumferance
Archimedes
mathmetician
physicist
inventor
Polybius
Histories
- accounted for Rome's position as a world empire with many nationalities and whatnot
Epicurus
taught value of passivity and withdrawal from civic life
Zeno
stoicism-emotions=bad
Carneades
all ideas, even matematic and such, should be thought of as assumptions, not absolutes
Author
brinomarx
ID
38188
Card Set
Western Civ Chapter 5
Description
cultural Diffusion
Updated
2010-09-29T02:08:16Z
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