ACS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Acts 9, The City Of God (Book), Good And Evil

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 200
• Professor: Jean L I

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He conquers lands throughout his whole life. There were 18 cities named alexandria > after him. He basically goes to the place and tells how things should be built> how the city should be built, and then someone else takes over when he leaves and takes care of the land now called alexandria. Alexandria: founded in 331 bc, center of hellenistic culture, largest urban jewish community at the time. Ptolemy (alexanders friend/ family [?: he installs a new religion based on serapis, he takes a mix of greece and roman gods and says that should be his state religion. ), alexandira: elements: most translated and published book after the bible. Thursday, march 17, 2016: first mention of euclid as author of the elements in 4th/5th c ad. Euclid otherwise unknown: we don"t know if euclid was one person or a collection of people. Euclid: the elements (math textbook: he describes things in definitions, example: definition 1.