Hellenistic Accomplishments

The Hellenistic world was a period where certain accomplishments had become more advanced which some are still in uses even to this day. They had different social developments that would end up changing its society including new opportunities for women, role of slavery, and education. They also had many achievements by changing literature, art, science, and philosophy. They had changed the way that certain things where done and because of these accomplishments that they advanced we still to this day use some if not most of their achievements. The Hellenistic world had made some big changes in their society. One of the main things that they did was provided new opportunities for women but mostly for upper-class women. Women were able to

It even turns out that in Sparta if a women’s husband was absent or had died in the war the women would then become wealthy and would be able to own the land. Some women were even able to go pursue an education which then provided them with new opportunities and some wealthy women would even get into political activities. The role of slavery was important to the Hellenistic society because they basically did all the work that they wealthy didn’t want to do. They were servants to the government, they worked on farms or even in the mines. Slaves had absorbed the Greek ways which was how they contributed to the Hellenizing process. The transformation of education was probably the most important thing that the society did. A dramatic change from this transformation was the evolution of

Literature was one of their achievements and it all done by three poets. Theocritus was a poet who wrote little poems about pastoral themes because of his love for nature and its beauty. Menander wrote about New Comedy which is described as a practical love story. Then there was Polybius who wrote about history. The Hellenistic’s where also in to art and they had made many statues. The founding of new cities had given architects and sculptors many opportunities to build new statues. Many of these sculptors where known for traveling far in ordered to get material rewards offered by wealthy patrons. Science was very important in the Hellenistic era and astronomy was the most traditional science. Aristarchus was a scientist who argued that not only was the earth rotates around the sun but that it rotates on its own axis. Another astronomer was Eratosthenes who determined that the earth was round. Along with science also came the knowledge of geometry and medicine. Euclid came up with geometry and because of him a scientist named Archimedes had used geometry to work on the geometry of spheres and cylinders, which helped him establish pi. With the help of science, a scientist named Hippocrates was able to use science to help make the scientific foundations of medicine. Philosophy was the new schools of thought and there were two