The Hellenistic World

Hellenic vs. Hellenistic ArtHellenic vs. Hellenistic Art

Nike of Samothrace

from Samothrace, Greececa. 190 B.C.E.marble97 in. high

Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander

Aphrodite from Milos (Venus de Milo)ca. 150-125 B.C.E.marble

Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander

Aphrodite from Milos (Venus de Milo)ca. 150-125 B.C.E.marble

Aphrodite, Eros and Pan

from Delos, Greececa. 100 B.C.E.marble52 in. high

Sleeping Satyr (Barberini Faun)ca. 230-200 B.C.E.marble85 in. high

Old Market Womanca. 150-100 B.C.E.marble54 in. high

Polyeuktos

Demosthenesca. 280 B.C.E.Roman marble copy of a bronze original79 1/2 in. high

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes

Laocoön and his sons1st century C.E.marble94 1/2 in. high

Library at Alexandria (333 B.C.E.)Library at Alexandria (333 B.C.E.)

World map according to Eratosthenes (194 B.C.)

Ptolemy’s Map of the World

World map, 1482

EudoxusEudoxus demonstrated that the planets obeyed regular laws demonstrated that the planets obeyed regular laws and moved in circular fashion within a number of spheres.and moved in circular fashion within a number of spheres.

EudoxusEudoxus

See Nagle, p. 227.

Heracleides

Cynicism

•Too much civilization

•Politics & status are useless

Diogenes (ca. 400-325 B.C.)

Epicurus (370-340 B.C.)

“There is nothing to fear in God nor anything to feel in death. Evil can be endured, good achieved.”

“Thank blessed nature that she had made essential things easy to to come by and things attained with difficulty unnecessary.”

“If you wish to make [a man] rich do not add to his money but subtract from his desires.”

Epicureanism: Avoid pain by not seeking too much pleasure

Zeno(366-280 B.C.)

The founder of Stoicism

The remains of some baths and the gymnasium at Pergamum

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Priene