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FYS - 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
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12/15/2012

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Eratosthenes
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The Librarian of Alexandria (did all that stuff with the earth's radius), embodied the hellenistic spirit
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Milo of Croton
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General Badass, won a ton of olympics, lived to be old, embodied the Hellenistic spirit of human determination
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Heinrich Schleman
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archeologist who excavated both Troy and Myceanae.
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Sir Arthur Evans
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Unearthed the Minoan Civilization on Crete at Knossus
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Darius I
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The Ruler of Persia, tried to take over Greece in the first greco-persian war. Was thwarted at the Battle of Marathon
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Darius II
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Was chased by Alexander all the fuck through persia. Died by assassination.
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Phillip II
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Ruler of Macedonia, Expanded Macedonia to all of Greece except for Sparta, set the stage for his son Alexander.
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Ptolemy
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General of Alexander's who ruled Egypt after Alexander's death. His line ruled Egypt for a long time: all the way until Cleopatra. Both embraced the local egyptian culture and maintained inherently greek customs.
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Seleucus
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Mesopotamian Ruler after Alexander's Death. Him and Ptolemy were not the best buds.
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Pericles
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The hero of a greek myth, we can see the change in greek style of sculpture from changes in his depiction.
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Polykleitos
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genius behind "the cannon" of greek sculpture. Designed perfection during the classical greek period. Little emotion, but oh what abs.
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Skopas
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Introduced emotion and reality into sculpture. Embraced the real world and rejected the idea of perfection. Tres Hellenistic.
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Lysippos
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Alexander's personal sculptor, coined many attributes of alexander that came to be seen as heroic and deified in sculpture.
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Laoccon and Sons
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Snakes, Myth, shows struggle, human despair and emotion.
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Philetaros
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Founder of Pergamon
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Galen
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Pergamon Doctor, first of his kind.
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Agustus
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Formerly Octavian, became the first emperor of rome, was the second coming of perfection in the rulers of this period. People after him tried to copy his iconic style.
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Maarten van Heemskerk
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Painted the seven wonders, cemented their image, despite never seeing or hearing much about them.
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Agamemanon
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Leader of the Greek in the Trojan War
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Kybele
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An eastern god of fertility adopted in part by the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, integrated into artemis.
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John Turtle Wood
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Discovered the Temple of Artemis after looking for it for decades. Was a dick to his wife.
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Herostratus
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Burned the Temple of Artemis on Alexander's Birthday
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Achilles and Ajax
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Beautiful piece of pottery, exemplifies the best pottery ever made.
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Xerxes
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Successor to Darius, also tried to crush the greeks in the Second Grecko-Persian War. Was stopped at the battle of Thermopylae, and the ensuing naval battle. Built a huge ass canal to get his ships through.
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Carians
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Non-Greek but greek influenced people on the coast of anatolia (affiliated with both the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and the Colossus at Rhodes.) Given conditional independence from the persian empire.
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Bryaxis, Timotheus, Lechares, Scopas
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Each did a side of the mausoleum.
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Chares of Lindos
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Architect of the Colossus
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Second Triumverate
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Octavian, Mark Antony, and one other dude,
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Marcus Aurelieus
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Roman emperor who saw "the Atrocities of War", built that column.
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What we take away from the Hellenistic Age;
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Internationalism, Individualism, and Inevitability
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Isis and Sarapis
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Greek and Egyptian gods that saw carryover and hybridization between the two cultures.
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-machy
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depicting a fight with
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Septuagint
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Translation of the hebrew bible into greek
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Pergamon
Definition
188 BCE, Turkey, smack dab in the middle of the hellenistic era. Enlightened city, interesting shit.
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The Great Altar of Pergamon
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Accessible, Artwork at Eye Level, very hellenistic Friezes. HELLENISM.
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Asklepion
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A hospital in Pergamon, by far the most advanced of its time.
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The Red Basilica at Pergamon
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dedicated to the gyptian god Isis, it shows the effects of internationalism on the greek world.
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Prima Porta
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The symbol of Agustus' rule. Hand raised, he goes back toward the severe style of perfection, casting off much of the helenistic spirit.
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Desert - Savannah Cycle
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A cycle that forced people from the Sahara into the nile river delta right as the Egyptians were solidifying their society.
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Djoser
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First Pyramid, was a step pyramid.
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Imhotep
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Architect of first Pyramid
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Palace of Ashurbanipal at Ninevah
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Was the precursor to the Hanging gardens. Elevated Terraces, and use of wealth on nature, both new, both relevant.
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Gates of Babylon
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Built by Nebuchadnezzar the Second, incredibly intricate, incredibly strong. Often on the list of ancient wonders.
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Kamares Ware
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Minoan Pottery, kind of incredible. (Think Inuit)
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Temple of Apollo at Corinth
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Earliest surviving classical temple. Panhellenic sanctuary in later years.
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Stasis
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King of the hill, the city state desire to one-up one another. Manifested well in the olympics. Led to panhellenism and the rise of the greek polis.
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Panhellenism
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The uniquely greek Identity
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Corinthian, Doric, Ionic
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Fancy, Stout, Iconic.
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Herodotus
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First Historian
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Statue of Mausolus
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First hellenistic statue (probs by skopas) Paved the way for... you guessed it, the Hellenistic art revolution.
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Siwah Oaisis
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Where Alexander became the Pharaoh of Egypt, and dualized his role as a zeus and Ra.
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Prosynesis
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Alexander adopting local customs and marrying locally, understood the benefits of cross cultural intermingling.
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Pantheon
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A Roman temple sacred to all the gods (the oculus)
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New Rome
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Constantinople
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Edict of Milan
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Constantine said: We coo christians.
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spolia
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the reuse of building material in new projects, mainly monumental ones. (accepting past history as part of present state)
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Demetrius Poliorectes
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City Killer, Rhodes, seige equipment.
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Salimas
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Turning Point in First Greco-Persian War
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Phidias
Definition
Sculptor of the Statue of Zeus
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