ADM 1300 Study Guide - Hellenistic Period, Hellenization, Smyrnium Olusatrum

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1300
• Professor: Jack Cornett

Document Summary

Notes: romans gave him the title, greeks didn"t think he was that great. Arcadian > koine new testament greek. Slide 8: kingdom of the ptolemies: egypt and cyrene: All (12) male rulers named ptolemy (ptolemy i soter) Notes: soter means saviour, saved them from rule of the persians, boyhood friend of alexander, educated by aristotle, macedonian, stole alexander"s body. Notes: scholars paid by the state and lived in the mouseion, human anatomy and geometry was researched, biology (needed animal and plant specimens zoo and botanical garden), geography, library not open to public, for scholars only. Slide 11: ptolemy v and the rosetta stone: Notes: only one to bother learning language of her subjects (100% macedonian), suicide ends the hellenistic period. Bigger everything: agoras, stoas, mixed up orders (doric, ionic, etc. ) Notes: gift of a private citizen, depicted on a coin, light house , zeus on top and three stories high, style of sculptures changed