The Widespread Popularity of Stoicism and Epicureanism

question 29

Multiple Choice

The widespread popularity of Stoicism and Epicureanism

• A)demonstrated the renewed association of the happiness of individuals with the life of the polis .
• B)coincided with a growth of traditional Greek religious practices.
• C)suggested a new openness to thoughts of universality in the cosmopolitan Hellenistic states.
• D)amounted to proof of a growing homogenization of Greek thought.
• E)all of the above.

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