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| North-West Semitic Writing was adopted and adapted, the new alphabet is called 'Phoenician' |
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Quiz 10 Q-3
What is the term used for the heavy, seven-stringed lyre |
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Quiz 10 Q-4
What is the term used for the wind instrument often played by slave girls at symposia |
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Quiz 10 Q-5
Where was Herodotus originally from |
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Quiz 10 Q-6
Which of the following was not part of the primary school curriculum in Athens
Grammar or letters
Music
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Quiz 10 Q-1
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All education in 5th Century Athens was private |
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Quiz 10 Q-7
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Herodotus had to rely primarily on oral sources to write the history of the times before the 5th Century |
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Quiz 10 Q-8
What is the Greek term that means a teacher of letters |
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Quiz 10 Q-9
What is the term used for the wrestling school where young men would go to train for athletic competitions |
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Quiz 10 Q-10
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There is no trace of evidence for girls' schooling or female literacy in ancient Athens |
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Quiz 11 Q-1
What is the term used for the circular "dancing floor" in a Greek theater |
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Quiz 11 Q-2
In the parade through the theater on the day of the first performances, many people carried |
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| Small statues of Dionysos |
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Quiz 11 Q-3
Who was in overall charge of the City Dionysia |
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Quiz 11 Q-4
When was the Athenian democracy put down for good |
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Quiz 11 Q-5
What is the term used for the rich individual who provides a liturgy for the City Dionysia |
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Quiz 11 Q-6
By the mid 5th Century with Sophocles, how many actors participated in a tragedy |
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Quiz 11 Q-7
How many tragedies where performed each year at the City Dionysia |
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Quiz 11 Q-8
What is the term used for the ceremony preceding the contest when playwrights, accompanied by their actors, announced what plays were to be performed |
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Quiz 11 Q-9
What is the term used for the light wooden construction that served both as the main prop and the actor's dressing room |
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Quiz 11 Q-10
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Theatrical productions with actors and a chorus were staged in Athens as early as the 7th Century BC |
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Quiz 11 Q-11
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Tragedies were regularly performed in Sparta as well as in Athens |
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Quiz 12 Q-1
Which character in the play says he/she wishes Jason has never sailed to Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece |
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Quiz 12 Q-2
In what Polis does the play take place |
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Quiz 12 Q-3
Who is Medea's grandfather |
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Quiz 12 Q-4
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The chorus of Corinthian women supports Medea's desire to avenge herself on Jason |
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Quiz 12 Q-5
What is one very important detail that would make you think the accompanying image was not based on Euripides'play |
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Quiz 12 Q-7
What has Medea been doing when the play opens |
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Quiz 12 Q-8
Which of the following does Medea fear most |
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Quiz 12 Q-9
In Euripides' Medea, the gods show no sign of displeasure at Medea's murder of her children. |
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Quiz 12 Q-10
To whom is Jason referring when he says "Cypris alone was responsible" |
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Quiz 13 Q-1
In the Medea Jason spoke of the power of Cypris over Medea: she, not Medea, was responsible for Medea's past kindnesses to Jason. Who in the Hippolytus champions this theme of Cypris's absolute power |
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Quiz 13 Q-2
When Hippolytus first appears, he is singing in praise of "the maiden goddess, most beautiful of all the heavenly Host that lives in Olympus." Who is this maiden goddess |
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Quiz 13 Q-3
When Hippolytus and the first chorus enter, they have just returned from |
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Quiz 13 Q-4
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Aphrodite is determined to crush all those who do not worship her, Phaedra above all others |
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Quiz 13 Q-5
Who is the natural mother of Hippolytus |
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Quiz 13 Q-6
Who causes Phaedra to break her silence |
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Quiz 13 Q-7
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Before she hangs herself, Phaedra composes a letter in which she confesses her sins to Theseus |
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Quiz 13 Q-8
Who granted to Theseus the fulfillment of any three wishes that he might have |
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Quiz 13 Q-9
Because he has sworn an oath, Hippolytus "knows the truth" but "dares not tell the truth." What is this truth? |
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| Hippolytus is so devoted to the goddess Artemis, goddess of the hunt, that he ignores the other gods, who in turn see this as an act of blasphemy. In accordance with this insult the goddess Aphrodite, seeks to end Hippolytus’s chastity, by forcing his step-mother Phaedra to lust for Hippolytus |
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Quiz 13 Q-10
There came to be a custom in ancient Troezen whereby “unwedded maidens before the day of marriage cut their hair." In whose honor was this ceremony performed |
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Quiz 14 Q-1
What is the term used for the rectangular panel that could be decorated with painting or sculpture in a Doric frieze |
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| What is the term used for the triangular gable that could be filled with sculpture at the front and back of a Greek temple |
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| What type of temple would you expect to find on mainland Greece |
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| What is the term used for the central room of a temple |
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| What is the term used for a temple with a peristyle |
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The colonnade running around the four sides of the temple is called a peristyle (from peri - around, and stylos - column) and a temple with a peristyle is called peripteral. The number of columns along the sides could be anything from eleven to eighteen, but there were usually just six columns along the front and back |
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| When did the ecclesia vote to build the Parthenon |
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| Where was the battle fought in 490 in which 192 Athenians were killed |
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True or False
The oath taken by the Greeks at Plataea established the Delian League |
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On the battlefield of Plataea the Greeks took an oath not to rebuild the temples that the Persians had destroyed, but to leave them in ruins, eternal testimony to the Persians' impiety |
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| Who was the strategos who convinced the ecclesia to vote funding for the Parthenon |
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Quiz 14 Q-10
Which of the following is not one of the three great things that the Athenian representatives claim their city contributed to the victory over the invading Persians |
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Quiz 15 Q-1
What is the name of the architectural element that fill the space between metopes |
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Quiz 15 Q-2
What significance do some scholars make of the fact that there seems to be 192 men (excluding the charioteers) depicted in the frieze |
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Quiz 15 Q-3
The sculpted frieze of the Parthenon was not unprecedented: Greek sculptors had already done similar work in |
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Quiz 15 Q-4
What was depicted in the east pediment of the Parthenon |
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Quiz 15 Q-5
In addition to directing the overall sculptural program of the Parthenon, Phidias did some of the sculpting himself. What part of the project was his work |
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| The cult statue of Athena |
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Quiz 15 Q-6
The Parthenon was completed in the year ___ and took ___ years to build.
449, 25 years
432, 16 years
490, 12 years |
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Quiz 15 Q-7
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As with other Doric temples, only a few of the metopes on the Parthenon had sculpted figures on them. |
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Quiz 15 Q-8
Which of the following was not a distinctly Ionic element in the otherwise Doric Parthenon |
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Quiz 15 Q-9
Which famous enemy warriors were not depicted in the sculpture of the Parthenon |
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Quiz 16 Q-1
What is the term (one word) used for a speech given in praise of a deceased person |
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Quiz 16 Q-2
According to Pericles, "our fathers deserve even more [praise]" than our forefathers do. For what do they deserve it |
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Quiz 16 Q-3
Athenians attitude toward the laws is |
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| They are terrified of breaking them |
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Quiz 16 Q-4
Pericles' advice to women is |
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Quiz 16 Q-5
What is the greatest gift to the city a man can give, according to Pericles |
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| Acting like "lovers" to her |
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Quiz 16 Q-6
According to Pericles, how do Athenians look on a man who takes no interest in politics |
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Quiz 16 Q-7
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Pericles says that poverty is shameful and indicates a weakness of character |
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Quiz 16 Q-8
When Pericles says that Athens is the "school for Greece" he means that |
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| Its way of life should serve as a model for other Greek cities |
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Quiz 16 Q-9
What is the name of the historian who wrote an account of the war between Athens and Sparta |
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Quiz 16 Q-10
In a complete sentence or two explain what will happen to the children of those who die in war |
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| At public expense, the city will rear these children until they come of age, thus offering a tangible prize to these men and their survivors for their struggle. |
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Quiz 17 Q-1
Diodotus bases his argument on the principle that it is wrong to take innocent human lives |
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Quiz 17 Q-2
In the second Mytilene debate, who ultimately prevails? |
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Quiz 17 Q-3
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Cleon believe that it is better for a state to enforce bad laws that are always obeyed than to have good ones that go unenforced |
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Quiz 17 Q-4
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Cleon is basically hostile toward intellectuals |
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Quiz 17 Q-5
In two or three sentences explain what Cleon's attitude toward democracy is |
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Democracies cannot rule over others
He feels democracy is no good and causes Athens more harm than good |
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Quiz 17 Q-6
Which of the following are true statements about the Athenian decisions in the first Mytilene debate |
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They decided to sell all the women and children into slavery
The decided to kill all males above the age of puberty |
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Quiz 17 Q-7
According to Cleon, which are the three worst mistakes an empire can make |
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Pity
Leniency
Pleasure in debate |
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Quiz 17 Q-8
Where is Mytilene |
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Quiz 17 Q-9
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After the second Mytilene debate, the Athenians executed more than 1,000 Mytilenaean men who had been responsible for the revolt |
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Quiz 17 Q-10
What does Diodotus argue about the death penalty |
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| Human nature is such as to make it powerless to prevent crime |
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Quiz 18 Q-1
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Exposure of infants was a form of "birth control" practiced in 5th Century Athens |
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Quiz 18 Q-3
What is the adjective that means humor referring to excrement |
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Quiz 18 Q-4
The average age for a groom in 5th Century Athens was |
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Quiz 18 Q-5
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The Athenians traditionally looked to the gods for models for human sexual behavior |
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Quiz 18 Q-6
Which of the following applies to a passive adolescent in a sexual relationship |
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Quiz 18 Q-7
What is the adjective that means having both masculine and feminine characteristics |
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Quiz 18 Q-8
What is the term used for sculpture that includes the head of Hermes on top of a rectangular pillar with an erect phallus on the front of it |
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Quiz 18 Q-9
What is the name of the poet who relates the myth about the original form of humans |
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Quiz 18 Q-10
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There was usually moral stigma attached to a husband who sought sexual gratification outside of the marriage. |
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Quiz 18 Q-11
In a complete sentence tell where is Socrates when the meal begins in Plato's Symposium |
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| Socrates had not arrived yet for he had strayed off to the neighbor's porch |
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