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11/06/2013

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Quiz 10 Q-2
The New Greek alphabet developed in the 8th Century was based on writing from
Definition
North-West Semitic Writing was adopted and adapted, the new alphabet is called 'Phoenician'
Term
Quiz 10 Q-3
What is the term used for the heavy, seven-stringed lyre
Definition
Kithara
Term
Quiz 10 Q-4
What is the term used for the wind instrument often played by slave girls at symposia
Definition
Aulos
Term
Quiz 10 Q-5
Where was Herodotus originally from
Definition
Asia Minor
Term
Quiz 10 Q-6
Which of the following was not part of the primary school curriculum in Athens
Grammar or letters
Music
Gymnastics or athletics
Military training
Definition
Military training
Term
Quiz 10 Q-1
True or False
All education in 5th Century Athens was private
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 10 Q-7
True or False
Herodotus had to rely primarily on oral sources to write the history of the times before the 5th Century
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 10 Q-8
What is the Greek term that means a teacher of letters
Definition
Grammatistes
Term
Quiz 10 Q-9
What is the term used for the wrestling school where young men would go to train for athletic competitions
Definition
Palaistrai
Term
Quiz 10 Q-10
True or False
There is no trace of evidence for girls' schooling or female literacy in ancient Athens
Definition
False
Term
Quiz 11 Q-1
What is the term used for the circular "dancing floor" in a Greek theater
Definition
Orchestra
Term
Quiz 11 Q-2
In the parade through the theater on the day of the first performances, many people carried
Definition
Small statues of Dionysos
Term
Quiz 11 Q-3
Who was in overall charge of the City Dionysia
Definition
Eponymous archon
Term
Quiz 11 Q-4
When was the Athenian democracy put down for good
Definition
322 BC
Term
Quiz 11 Q-5
What is the term used for the rich individual who provides a liturgy for the City Dionysia
Definition
Choregos
Term
Quiz 11 Q-6
By the mid 5th Century with Sophocles, how many actors participated in a tragedy
Definition
3
Term
Quiz 11 Q-7
How many tragedies where performed each year at the City Dionysia
Definition
Term
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
Definition
Proagon
Term
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
Definition
Skene
Term
Quiz 11 Q-10
True or False
Theatrical productions with actors and a chorus were staged in Athens as early as the 7th Century BC
Definition
False
Term
Quiz 11 Q-11
True or False
Tragedies were regularly performed in Sparta as well as in Athens
Definition
Term
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
Definition
Medea's nurse
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Quiz 12 Q-2
In what Polis does the play take place
Definition
Corinth
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Quiz 12 Q-3
Who is Medea's grandfather
Definition
Helios
Term
Quiz 12 Q-4
True or False
The chorus of Corinthian women supports Medea's desire to avenge herself on Jason
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 12 Q-5
What is one very important detail that would make you think the accompanying image was not based on Euripides'play
Definition
Term
Quiz 12 Q-6
Who is Aegeus
Definition
King of Athens
Term
Quiz 12 Q-7
What has Medea been doing when the play opens
Definition
Crying
Term
Quiz 12 Q-8
Which of the following does Medea fear most
Definition
Term
Quiz 12 Q-9
In Euripides' Medea, the gods show no sign of displeasure at Medea's murder of her children.
Definition
Term
Quiz 12 Q-10
To whom is Jason referring when he says "Cypris alone was responsible"
Definition
Aphrodite
Term
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
Definition
Aphrodite
Term
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
Definition
Artemis
Term
Quiz 13 Q-3
When Hippolytus and the first chorus enter, they have just returned from
Definition
The hunt
Term
Quiz 13 Q-4
True or False
Aphrodite is determined to crush all those who do not worship her, Phaedra above all others
Definition
Term
Quiz 13 Q-5
Who is the natural mother of Hippolytus
Definition
An Amazon queen
Term
Quiz 13 Q-6
Who causes Phaedra to break her silence
Definition
The Nurse
Term
Quiz 13 Q-7
True or False
Before she hangs herself, Phaedra composes a letter in which she confesses her sins to Theseus
Definition
False
Term
Quiz 13 Q-8
Who granted to Theseus the fulfillment of any three wishes that he might have
Definition
Poseidon
Term
Quiz 13 Q-9
Because he has sworn an oath, Hippolytus "knows the truth" but "dares not tell the truth." What is this truth?
Definition
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
Term
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
Definition
Hippolytus
Term
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
Definition
Metopes
Term
What is the term used for the triangular gable that could be filled with sculpture at the front and back of a Greek temple
Definition
Pediment
Term
What type of temple would you expect to find on mainland Greece
Definition
Doric
Term
What is the term used for the central room of a temple
Definition
Naos
Term
What is the term used for a temple with a peristyle
Definition
Peripteral
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
Term
When did the ecclesia vote to build the Parthenon
Definition
448 BC
Term
Where was the battle fought in 490 in which 192 Athenians were killed
Definition
Marathon
Term
True or False
The oath taken by the Greeks at Plataea established the Delian League
Definition
False
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
Term
Who was the strategos who convinced the ecclesia to vote funding for the Parthenon
Definition
Pericles
Term
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
Definition
The most money
Term
Quiz 15 Q-1
What is the name of the architectural element that fill the space between metopes
Definition
Term
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
Definition
Term
Quiz 15 Q-3
The sculpted frieze of the Parthenon was not unprecedented: Greek sculptors had already done similar work in
Definition
Persia
Term
Quiz 15 Q-4
What was depicted in the east pediment of the Parthenon
Definition
The birth of Athena
Term
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
Definition
The cult statue of Athena
Term
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
Definition
432, 16 years
Term
Quiz 15 Q-7
True or False
As with other Doric temples, only a few of the metopes on the Parthenon had sculpted figures on them.
Definition
False
Term
Quiz 15 Q-8
Which of the following was not a distinctly Ionic element in the otherwise Doric Parthenon
Definition
Term
Quiz 15 Q-9
Which famous enemy warriors were not depicted in the sculpture of the Parthenon
Definition
Term
Quiz 16 Q-1
What is the term (one word) used for a speech given in praise of a deceased person
Definition
Eulogy
Term
Quiz 16 Q-2
According to Pericles, "our fathers deserve even more [praise]" than our forefathers do. For what do they deserve it
Definition
Establishing an empire
Term
Quiz 16 Q-3
Athenians attitude toward the laws is
Definition
They are terrified of breaking them
Term
Quiz 16 Q-4
Pericles' advice to women is
Definition
Remain invisible
Term
Quiz 16 Q-5
What is the greatest gift to the city a man can give, according to Pericles
Definition
Acting like "lovers" to her
Term
Quiz 16 Q-6
According to Pericles, how do Athenians look on a man who takes no interest in politics
Definition
He leads a useless life
Term
Quiz 16 Q-7
True or False
Pericles says that poverty is shameful and indicates a weakness of character
Definition
False
Term
Quiz 16 Q-8
When Pericles says that Athens is the "school for Greece" he means that
Definition
Its way of life should serve as a model for other Greek cities
Term
Quiz 16 Q-9
What is the name of the historian who wrote an account of the war between Athens and Sparta
Definition
Thucydides
Term
Quiz 16 Q-10
In a complete sentence or two explain what will happen to the children of those who die in war
Definition
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.
Term
Quiz 17 Q-1
Diodotus bases his argument on the principle that it is wrong to take innocent human lives
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 17 Q-2
In the second Mytilene debate, who ultimately prevails?
Definition
Diodotus
Term
Quiz 17 Q-3
True or False
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
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 17 Q-4
True or False
Cleon is basically hostile toward intellectuals
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 17 Q-5
In two or three sentences explain what Cleon's attitude toward democracy is
Definition
Democracies cannot rule over others
He feels democracy is no good and causes Athens more harm than good
Term
Quiz 17 Q-6
Which of the following are true statements about the Athenian decisions in the first Mytilene debate
Definition
They decided to sell all the women and children into slavery

The decided to kill all males above the age of puberty
Term
Quiz 17 Q-7
According to Cleon, which are the three worst mistakes an empire can make
Definition
Pity
Leniency
Pleasure in debate
Term
Quiz 17 Q-8
Where is Mytilene
Definition
On the island of Lesbos
Term
Quiz 17 Q-9
True or False
After the second Mytilene debate, the Athenians executed more than 1,000 Mytilenaean men who had been responsible for the revolt
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 17 Q-10
What does Diodotus argue about the death penalty
Definition
Human nature is such as to make it powerless to prevent crime
Term
Quiz 18 Q-1
True or False
Exposure of infants was a form of "birth control" practiced in 5th Century Athens
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 18 Q-2
Aspasia was
Definition
A Hetaira
Term
Quiz 18 Q-3
What is the adjective that means humor referring to excrement
Definition
Scatological
Term
Quiz 18 Q-4
The average age for a groom in 5th Century Athens was
Definition
30
Term
Quiz 18 Q-5
True or False
The Athenians traditionally looked to the gods for models for human sexual behavior
Definition
False
Term
Quiz 18 Q-6
Which of the following applies to a passive adolescent in a sexual relationship
Definition
Eromenos
Term
Quiz 18 Q-7
What is the adjective that means having both masculine and feminine characteristics
Definition
Androgynous
Term
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
Definition
Herm / Hermai / Hermes
Term
Quiz 18 Q-9
What is the name of the poet who relates the myth about the original form of humans
Definition
Aristophanes
Term
Quiz 18 Q-10
True or False
There was usually moral stigma attached to a husband who sought sexual gratification outside of the marriage.
Definition
True
Term
Quiz 18 Q-11
In a complete sentence tell where is Socrates when the meal begins in Plato's Symposium
Definition
Socrates had not arrived yet for he had strayed off to the neighbor's porch
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