The Hellenistic World – Quiz

1. According to Epicurus, the good life consists in the pursuit of __________.
2. New Comedy is best represented in the Hellenistic Age by the playwright _________.
3. The Maccabean revolt began when ____________ desecrated the temple in Jerusalem.
4. The founder of the Stoic school of philosophy was _______.
5. True/False: The Hellenistic Age was a period of relative prosperity and economic expansion.
6. True/False: The Stoic concept virtue consists in choosing to follow the will of the gods through one’s own free will.
7. ____________ proposed a heliocentric theory of the universe in the Hellenistic Age.
8. ___________ wrote a treatise on geometry that was used as a textbook for thousands of years.

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1. pleasure
2. Menander
3. Antiochus IV
4. Zeno
5. True
6. True
7. Aristarchus of Samos
8. Euclid