Western Civilization - History Of European Society
40Chapter 2 Heavy tributes swelled the Athenian treasury. Some of the conquered land was distributed to poor citizens, and wealt ...
Ancient Greece to the End of the Peloponnesian Wars41 Corinthian colony in the Adriatic that had long been neutral. The Athenian ...
CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. Art and Literature in Classical Greece III. Greek Thought from the Pre-Socratics to Aristotl ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 43 many religious festivals. They were performed in open- air amphitheaters construc ...
and the idea, revived during the Renaissance, remained influential until well into the twentieth century. Greek art, too, served ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 45 their undecorated state were once brilliantly painted. Some had precious stones f ...
to tradition, the sixth-century B.C.philosopher Thales of Miletus introduced geometry and astronomy to Greece after visiting Egy ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 47 from any object perceived by the senses. Because the senses are deceptive, unders ...
categorization of statements, and the nature of lan- guage itself. In the physical sciences, Aristotle’s influence dom- inated t ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 49 heavily to the left and held back the right. This unbal- anced formation, support ...
equally attentive to the problems of siegecraft. Philip introduced to the Aegean world the techniques and siege engines develope ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 51 All three dynasties, the Antigonids, the Ptolemies, and the Seleucids are called ...
Phoenicia, and Palestine, and the Aetolians allied themselves with a new power then emerging in the west: Rome. The struggles be ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 53 portunity knocked. The Syrians, Persians, and Babylo- nians who made up the bulk ...
54 Chapter 3 A large and efficient bureaucracy managed royal mo- nopolies in essential goods and collected more than two hundred ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 55 the island of Cos in the fifth century B.C.(see docu- ment 3.5). Its main feature ...
56 Chapter 3 was lived closest to nature and that wisdom lay in abandoning worldly goods and ambition. Diogenes (d. 320 B.C.), t ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 57 terns. Growth and dissolution were inevitable, but no providential order existed ...
58 Chapter 3 turn to their homeland. In 516 B.C.they rebuilt the Temple at Jerusalem. Not so grand as the Temple of Solomon, it ...
Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion 59 man experience was coupled with an extraordinary spirit of inquiry. Other ancient ...
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