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