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31 Cards in this Set
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Who also wrote druing the reign of Ptolemy 1?
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Euclid - studied geometry
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Who headed the Museum under Ptolemy 2?
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Ctesibius- worked on pneumatics, invented cannon powered by compressed air
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Who is Hippocrates ?
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Born in Cos- did medical research
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Who pioneered anatomy by dissection and vivisection?
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Herophilus and Erasistratus ( Ptolemy 1)
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What was the gateway to Acropolis called?
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Propylaia
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Who made the first nude woman?
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Praxiteles (350)- Aphrodite of Cnidus
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Who is Philitas of Cos?
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A poet during Ptolemy 1 and Alexander. Tutor of Philadelphus. was featured in Callimachus' Aetia prologue
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Who considered Philitas of Cos their leader?
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Roman elegists, especially Ovid
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Who is Callimachus?
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Born in 302 in Cyrene. Teacher in suburb of Eleucis
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What books did he write?
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Pinaces (120 books). Hymns, Epigrams, Hecale, Galatea, the Mousetrap, Victoria Berenices. Doric Greek, 280-240 A big book is a big evil.
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Earliest Epigrams (write on )
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Dactylic hexameter; elegiac couplets.
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Popular form of Epigrams
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scolium - drinking games
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Alexander imposed different rules where?
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Sogdiana and bactria
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What did Alexander build in Egypt and what year
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Alexandria, 331 bbc
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What is the lower house of greek legislature?
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boule
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What is the principal assembly of Athens?
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Ekklesia
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What city was exempted from taxes?
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Alexandria
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What language were royal decrees?
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Greek, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, demotic Egyptian
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Rosetta Stone
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March 27 196 (during Ptolemy V)
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Langugages on Rosetta Stone meant for who?
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Class of Egyptian priests and high level officials; common egyptian inhabitants of city; Greek and Macedonian residents
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When was Ptolemy V coronated?
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13 years
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By the process of what made greeks and egyptians god mesh?
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Syncretism
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Isis
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Daughter of Cronus, wife and sister of Osiris; also named thesmophorus and is associated with Demeter. however born in Egypt
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What does cult of Isis rival?
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Orphism and Christianity
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What is Sarapis? Who created it?
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A religion. It fused Hades, Osiris, Dionysus, Asclepius and Zeus. Founded by Manetho and Timotheus (Ptolemy 1)
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Isis and Osiris like who?
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Aphrodite and Dionysus (Heracles)
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Name of 300 ft Lighthouse. Who built it?
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Pharos. Sostratus of Cnidus (Ptolemy 1)
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Muses?
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Nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne
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What was the Museum?
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Library.
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Hellenistic Alexandria and ____ are intense eras? Whose plays were stolen?
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Perganum; Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
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Who became LIbrarian? What was he and what year?
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Eratosthenes in 246. Geographer and mathematician. used Alexander and Syene to show Earth's circumference.
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