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| Philosopher who did not write anything, preferring instead to ask questions and mix with devotees in the amretplace; his big question was 'can virtue be taught' |
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| along with the phalanx this Greek military tool gave that small and fragmented country a great edge over the competition in the Mediterranean world |
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| King who bequeathed to his son a stong military, a full treasury and an excellent education; but he was seen as a treat to Greek freedom by the great orator Demosthenes |
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| Citizen of Alexandria who c 150AD who devised the geocentric astronomical theory that held until the 17th century; it was complex but it worked |
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| Philosopher who was a hedonist that is he said that the goal of life is to avoid pain and have pleasre; the highest pleasures are spiritual, but food is high on the list too |
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| Last of a line of inbred egyptian rulers who eventually ran afoul of Romans like Julius Caesar and Marc Antony;no one could fault her as a shrewd queen or as a beauty though |
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| One of the many cities founded by Alexander the Great this one in Eqypt set the standard for culture for 300 years; recently ruins of the public buildings have been found in the harbor |
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| Followed by the philosopher Zeno who said that ethincs and and human growth relate principally to the fulfillment of one's duty; Christians could accept this thought as compatable with Jesus |
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| Egyptian mathematician whose though is the basis for modern geometry in many forms |
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| Egyptian goddess from centuries earlier whose cult became especially big in helenistic times along with that of Astarte the fertility goddess of Syria and the macho Mithra for men |
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| Greek philosopher from before the time of Socrates whose thought put mathematics at the center of reality he was famous for a theorem, for analyzing musical harmonics and an ethics |
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| Hellenistic sculpture of a father and two sons being crushed by sea serpents; the story is from Homer but the sculpture from late Hellenistic times showing how Greek culture survived |
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| Greek culture spread throughout the Mediterranean world and as far east as the Indus river spread by this youthful conquerer who had been tutored by Aristotle; everybody claims him |
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| Chief of the Olympians whose large and magnificent temple in Athens is relatively late and is one of the few examples of the Corinthian architechural order to be found in Greece itself |
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| One of the Alexandriene generals who split up the empire because it was too large to govern centrally; this one got Syria; his successors persecuted the Jews trying for religious unity |
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| A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Eqypt this woman married her brother and ruled with him since rulers were gods abd best married other gods; she showed that women were rising |
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| City of Anatolia (modern Turkey) renowned for its high culture and excellent architecture; it was ruled by the Attalids who in the end willed the kingdom to the Romans |
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| Phoenician trading city located just off the coast; Alexander built a causeway out to the city to capture it as he was moving to crush the Persian empire once and for all |
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| Alexander's country of origin, newly independant now after being part of other countries for a long time; politicians trade mightily in Alexander's name in annoyance to the Greeks |
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| Hellenistic mathematician and engineer-scientist from Syracuse on Sicily who discovered things like specific gravity and built marvelous war machines to defend the city |
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| Philosopher whose principle concern was the question of change and stability and who preferred to deal with concrete phenomena; his physics kept the heavens and earths seperate |
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| Philosopher whose main question was about the one and the many; how can there be many humans but only one humanity; he concluded that we aprticipate in an essence that exists apart |
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| Having received a special revelation from God that they were a chosen people they kept their identity and practiced their religion despite loss of independance and persecution |
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| Polis that kepts its preeminient status as a cultural leader despite loss of political power |
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| Adjective that means 'similiar to the greek' and is used to describe a civilization derived from the classical greek culture of the age of pericles; it used to be a pejorative |
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