Western Civ Chapter 5

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

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Western Civ Chapter 5

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cultural Diffusion

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