STYLE. SIMPLE REPRESENTATIONS OF JESUS AND THE APOSTLES HAD BECOME COMMON IN THE CHURCH. BIBLICAL SCENES, IN PARTICULAR THOSE DETAILING THE LIFE AND MIRACLES OF JESUS, WERE BEGINING TO APPEAR ON SARCOPHAGI THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE, ILLUSTRAING THE COMPLEX THEMES AND MESSAGES OF THE NEW FAITH.PHILOSOPHYIN GREEK PHILOSOPHY THERE WERE THREE MAJOR GROUPS OF PHILOSOPHERS. THE PRE-SOCRATICS, THE SOPHISTS, AND THE SOCRATIC REVOLUTION. THE PRE-SOCRATIC THINKERS WERE CONCERNED WITH DETERMINING THE NATURE OF THE PHISICAL WORLD. FOLLOWERS IN ELEA THOUGHT THAT THE WORLD WAS A SINGLE, UNCHANGING OBJECT WHOSE ORDER COULD COULD BE KNOWN THROUGH HUMAN REASON. ANOTHER GROUP THE ATOMISTS BELIEVED THAT EVERYTHING WAS COMPOSED OF ATOMS; ETERNAL, INVISIBLE BODIES OF VARYING SIZE THAT COULD NOT BE DIVIDED INTO SMALLER UNITS; AND THE SPACE BETWEEN THEM. THE MOVEMENT AND THE SHAPE OF THE ATOMS WERE SUFFICIENT TO EXPLAIN EVERY ASPECT OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD. THE SOPHISTS PLACED THEIR EMPHASIS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRACTICAL SKILLS, AND COMMITTED TO HUMANISTIC VALUES. THEY THOUGHT AS HUMANS TO BE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, AND TO HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE JUDGEMENTS ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THEIR WORLD. THIS WENT AGAINST TRADITIONAL GREEK VALUES THAT GODS CONTROLLED EVERYTHING. THE SOCRATIC REVOLUTION WAS LED BY SOCRATES, A THINKER WHO LAUNCHED A NEW ERA IN PHILOSOPHY. HE FOCUSED ON HUMAN PROBLEMS AND TO EMPOWER INDIVIDUALS TO MAKE THEIR OWN MORAL CHOICES. SOCRATES METHOD FOR ARRIVING AT TRUE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL VALUES WAS FIRST BEING IMMORTAL, UNLIKE THE GODS. THOSE WHO WANT WISDOM MUST PROTECT THEIR PHYCHES BY GIVING THEIR MIND THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE. SOCRATES BELIEVED IN ESSENTIAL GOODNESS OF HUMAN NATURE AND THE NECESSITY OF WELL-DEFINED KNOWLEDGE THROUGH PERSONAL STRUGGLE TO SELF-ENLIGHTMENT.THE ROMAN EMPIRE ONLY HAD TWO TYPES OF PHILOSOPHY, STOCISM AND NEO-PLATONISM. STOCISM WAS THE MOST POPULAR AND INFLUENTIAL OF THE TWO. IT FOCUSED ON AD...
