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What Hellenistic city in western Asia Minor emerged as a brilliant center of art and thought, bringing together Greek and Persian civilizations? It had an excellent library, palace, and temple to Athena on its acropolis. |
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What was the premier Hellenistic city? It had the ancient world's largest library. |
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Where was the world's first university? |
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What popular form of Hellenistic Greek amusement presented gently satirical scenes from middle-class life? |
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What is a humorous play that focuses on the way people interact in society? |
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Name its leading author. |
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Name the poetic form in which lives of shepherds and farmers are described in a somewhat artificial, idealized way. |
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What writer invented this form? |
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What cult was popular among the Roman legions? It was an offshoot of Zoroastrianism. |
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Name the simple slabs that were the oldest religious structures in the Greek world. They predated temples. |
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Name the masterpiece of Rhodian and Hellenistic sculpture. |
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Who is credited with saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts" during the Trojan War? |
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Approximately how many books were in the great library at Alexandria? |
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What lighthouse was considered one of the wonders of the ancient world? |
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What superb Hellenistic sculpture has the nickname of "Winged Victory"? |
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What Hellenistic city used grants of state subsidies to lure scholars and poets into studying and creating? |
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Which Hellenistic philosophy is characterized by the following statement? True freedom comes with the realization that if one wanted nothing, one could not lack anything. |
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Which Hellenistic philosophy stated that nothing can be known for certain? |
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Which Hellenistic philosophy believed that pleasure is the highest good and that death is final in its extinction of consciousness? |
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Which Hellenistic philosophy believed that wisdom and freedom consist of living in harmony with divine reason or nature? |
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