PSYC 397 Chapter 3: Chapter 3.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 397
• Professor: Mary C Olmstead

Document Summary

The romans abolished the idea of the polis persons were citizens of rome as opposed to identifying with the city-state (polis) in which they lived. Idea that the state comes before the community had powerful influence in settling ethnic and geographic disputes. What happened during the hellenistic period: when alexander the great dies, the vision he had for a universal empire becomes perverted by his generals, who rule conquered lands and wage wars against one another. Having lost their beloved polis, hellenistic women and men turned away from public life toward the pleasures of private life and home. Pax romana: period of relative peace and minimal territorial expansion by the roman empire. Neoplatonism: a philosophical religion, popular in the hellenistic period. Tyche (fate): greek figure who controls the destiny of a city; able to bring fortune or destruction onto a city"s people. Ataraxia: state of happy peacefulness characterized by freedom from distress and worry.