Hellenistic Culture Conti

Mathematics and Physics

• Euclid
• wrote the book on geometry (elements)
• Archimedes 
• estimated value of pi, explained law of lever
• Archimedes Screw = could raise water from the ground

Philosophy and art

• Epicureanism and stoicism (Zeno)
• founded the school of philosophy
• founded the school of thought
• Sculpture
• Colossus of Rhodes
• a bronze statue more than 100 ft high, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
• 150 BC the Hellenistic world was in decline
• Rome was growing and gaining strength 

difference forms between types of government

describe philosophies socrates plato and aristotle

describe progression greek civilization