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Ancient Greece Worksheet
chapter ten, pp. 209-221

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1. Comic dramatists like Menander and Philemon wrote works that are not unlike modern _________ operas.
2. Poets began to highlight the differences between ________ and ___________. This reflected the funandmental social division between the food ________ of the town and the food __________ of the countryside.
3. Apollonius wrote a long epic about ________ and the ______________.
4. The Hellenistic kings promoted intellectual life by offering __________ financial support to move to the royal capitals.
5. The ________ made ________ the leading intellectual center in the Hellenistic world. It had a massive _________ and a place called a _____________ where scholars produced_____________ of knowledge. One scholar named Didymus was nicknamed “ __________________ “ because he wrote nearly _____ books.
6. Women excelled in writing ________, a style of short poems.
7. Sculptors of this period depicted _______ on the faces of their subjects, unlike artists in the Classical Period.
8. Hellenistic sculpture, like earlier Greek sculpture, was painted in _______ colors.
9. Hellenistic sculpture was created more and more as ____________ from royalty and from the urban elites.
10. Hellenistic sculpture depicts human beings in a wide variety of _____, many from ________ life.
11. Hellenistic sculptors portrayed subjects unknown in the Classical Period: __________, ____________, battered ___________, and ________ old people. The female _______ became a particular favorite.
12. Hellenistic sculptors depicted _________ ideas as sculptural types.
13. Philosophers of the time abandoned _____________ and concerned themselves with philosophical _______________, denying the immaterial _______ described by Plato. The goal was securing human ___________ from the effects of chance or other worldly events.
14. The most significant new philosophical schools of thought to arise were _____________ and __________________. These doctrines proved to be exceptionally popular among ___________ Romans.
15. The overriding philosophical question was: What is the best way for human beings to _________? There was a desire to attain personal ___________ during a turbulent time.
16. Epicurus believed that humans should pursue ___________, which he defined as “absence of ___________.” ABove all, human beings should be free of worry about ___________. All human knowledge must be __________, that is, derived from experience and perception.
17. Stoicism was a school of thought founded by _______ of Citium, by developed by _____________________ from Cicilia. Stoics believed that human beings should make their goal the pursuit of ______________, which consisted of putting oneself in ____________ with universal Nature. The Stoics believed that ________ was responsible for everything that happened. What mattered in life was the _______ for good, not the ________.
18. __________ believed that secure knowledge about anything was impossible. The founder of this school of thought, _______ of Ellis, was influenced by the ______ ascetic wise men (the magi) he met.
19. __________ ostentatiously rejected every convention of ordinary life, specially wealth and material comfort. Whatever was _______ was good and could be done without __________ before anyone.
20. In mathematics, _______ made revolutionary progress in the analysis of two- and three-dimensional space. The fame of his _________ endures to this day. Elsewhere, ________ calculated the approximate value of pi and invented ______________. The modern expression “__________!” immortalizes his shout of delight when he found the solution to a problem while sitting in a bathing __________.
21. In astronomy, _________ of Samos proposed the first correct model of the ________ system by theorizing that the _______ revolved around the ___________. It wouldn’t be until ____________ (1473-1543 A.D.) that this correct theory would be recognized.
22. In geography, _________ of Cyrene calculated the ______________ of the earth with astonishing accuracy.
23. In engineering, _________ of Alexandria invented ___________, built a working water _________, and the first accurate water __________. The scientist ________ built a rotating sphere powered by ________, although it did not lead to viable steam ______________.
24. Kings hired engineers to design powerful ___________ and wheeled siege __________. In the nonmilitary sphere, a ____________ three stories tall was built for the harbor of ___________________.
25. In medicine, _________ of Cos discovered the value of measuring the human _________ in diagnosing illness. A bit later, Herophilus of Chalcedon was the first scientist in the West to study ____________ using human cadavers. Other Hellenistic scientists discovered ___________ and the ___________ system.
26. One weakness in Hellenistic medicine was the belief that illness was the result of an imbalance of __________. Physicians believed that drawing _________ from patients could help restore health. Many illnesses in women were diagnosed as caused by displacements of the __________.
27. The traditional ______ of Greek religion remained popular in the hellenistic era. Many came to rely on _________ for advice adduced from the movement of the stars and planets, which were thought of as _______________.
28. The gods of popular Hellenistic cults promised _______ of various kinds. There were cults of deified _________; the cult of _________ , son of Apollo, which promised headings; __________ cults that offered protection from physical ____________.
29. Many ______, especially those living in ____________ in Egypt, adopted the Greek language and many aspects of Greek culture. The ________ Bible was translated into Greek in ____________. Still, they refused to __________ Greek gods.
30. The nation of Israel was controlled by the _______________ in the third century, B.C., and the __________ in the second century B.C. In 167 B.C., the king ______________ converted the Temple into a temple to the Syrian god _______. The rededication of the Temple by the Jews was the result of a revolt led by _________ the Maccabee. This rededication os commemorated by Jews on the holiday of _____________.

Short answer

1. Discuss the life and philosophy of Epicurus.