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The Museum At Alexandria: The Orthodox Eastern (Greek) Church is strong in Istanbul, which is, as a matter of fact, one of the four recognized patriarchates, along with Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem.
7. The Kariye Mosque, another former church, is of outstanding charm because of its superb mosaics. This lovely little Byzantine structure is so appealing that it is in process of being converted, like St. Sophia, into a public museum.
At Athens, Theophrastus (370P-286 B.C.), the head of the Peripatetic school after the death of Aristotle, did continue his master's empirical investigations, especially in the field of botany; but the scientifically minded Peripatetics were the least influential of the Athenian schools of philosophy in the 3d century B. c., and the real heir to the Aristotelian scientific tradition was the Museum established about 280 B. c. at Alexandria with the support of the Egyptian monarchy.
In the third place, Greece experienced a greater measure of political freedom and social unrest. The Museum at Alexandria was founded by the Egyptian monarchy in order to counterbalance freethinking tendencies radiating from Greece, especially Athens. The moralizing and satiric literature that was inspired by the anarchistic philosophy of Cynicism and was spread by itinerant Cynic preachers was especially popular in Greece, as is shown by the contributions to this genre made by Crates of Thebes (365— 285 B.C.), Cercidas of Megalopolis (290-220 B.C.), and Timon of Phlius (320-230 B.C.). |
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