HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cornucopia, Maues
15 Feb 2019
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Gymnasium- to educated and for athletic training. Greek and non-greeks lived side by side so people of different origins were mingling. Concentrated on alexandria and turned it into the greatest metropolis in the. Surpassed all other hellenistic cities in population size, wealth, and intellectual achievement. Alexandria was the greatest intellectual achievement- had a government-funded museum that was a community of intellectuals. Library of alexandria held million books and wanted to house all the knowledge in the world. A dialect of greek that incorporated vocab from another language. Was the common language and used mainly in trade. Demetrius of bactria with hercules on the other side of the coin. Scythian king maues as king of king with goddess nike on the other side of the coin. Would have known philosophies of aristotle, socrates, ect Isis- wife of osiris/ holds a scepter to show rule (egypt) Isis- holds a cornucopia to show life and has a headdress resembling.
