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 Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age 115 What were the conflicts of city life in this age? Describe the city of Alexandria. What advance was made in science? What contribu- tions did Archimedes make? What was the Museum in Alexandria? For what is Euclid celebrated ? What is the derivation and meaning of the word "geometry"? Compare the map of the world as under- stood in the time of Herodotus and in that of Eratosthenes. What progress was made in the knowledge of the earth? What is the derivation and meaning of "geography"? How did Eratosthenes lay the foundation of modern- geography ? Describe the Library of Alexandria. What were the main schools of philosophy at this time ? Contrast the Stoics and Epicureans. What was the attitude of the intellectual class toward the gods ? Give the chief effects of Greek ideas on the Orient, and of the oriental civilization on the Greek world. NOTE. The tailpiece below is a pleasing example of the Alexandrian art of mosaic the art of putting together brightly colored bits of glass or stone and forming figures or designs with them, as a child puts together a puzzle picture. It was an old Egyptian art, which was carried much further by the Greeks at Alexandria, where they seem to have learned it, and used it in making beautiful pavements. ]-_r* r *~ i - >. - rj .-v-y - J V-'^TV-; T L r HtJ tr/T-rv-, ,- -'-^Stf'&LK; rrijr^ f-- ; 2 [y^f^rfgP ? :^.- .. ,; St
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