What is Hellenistic Greece known for?
The Hellenistic period saw the rise of New Comedy, Alexandrian poetry, the Septuagint, and the philosophies of Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Pyrrhonism. Greek science was advanced by the works of the mathematician Euclid and the polymath Archimedes. What was the Hellenistic period in Greece? The three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian…