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| In Thomas Jefferson's letter to William Short, what is his opinion of Stoics? |
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| That they had misrepresented Epicurus |
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| In Arisophanes' Lysistrata, women try to end war by waging a sex strike. The women are: |
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| Reluctant because they don't think they can live without sex. |
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| According to Backman, which Roman Emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Christians? |
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| Backman tells us that Augustine of Hippo built his Christian philosophy on the foundation of which Classical philosopher? |
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| Plato & the Neo-Platonists |
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| One of the chief themes of Aristotle's The politics(excerpts) is |
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| In Menander's Epitrepontes, why does Pamphile's father threaten to take her to her dowry back home? |
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| Because he thinks Pamphile's husband has abandoned her. |
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| According to Backman, which of the "Four Latin Fathers" invented the genre of autobio and in his larger body of work, laid the foundations for "nearly all later medieval philosophy and theology?" |
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| In Plutarch's biographies, he focused on a man's... |
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| In his letter home from university, Cicero's son |
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| Confirms that he has given up a tutor his father did not like. |
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| Literature and plays can give us information about the kinds of things a society was grappling with when the play was written. our readings of Meander's Epitrepontes and Terence's The brothers suggest that__ was a regular occurrence. |
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| rape and/or abduction of young women |
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| Who was the "earliest know figure" in the Desert Fathers monastic movement? |
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| Monasticism first appeared in the West in... |
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| The Life of St. Martin by Sulpicius Severus in the early fifth century became the model for all medieval |
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| ___, daughter of a prominent Irish landowner, refused to marry and founded her own convent at kildare |
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| Boethius's The Consolation of Phlosophy was one of the top "best-sellers" of the medieval period and was translated into a vernacular by: |
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King Alfred the Great
Geoffrey Chaucer
Elizabeth 1 |
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| Benedict of Nursia founded the monastery of ___, which became the greatest monastery of the medieval period. |
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| Monks' days were organized around daily prayer services called |
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| The monastery in which Venerable Bede lived and worked was |
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| According to Venerable Bede, Bishop Germanus performed miracles that helped to ___ people |
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| Venerable Bede credited ___ with converting the English people to Roman Christianity? |
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| Augustine and his 40 monks. |
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| Einhart used the work of a Classical author as the model for his biography of Charlemagne, Who was the classical author? |
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| According to Backman, the greatest achievement of the Carolingian era was" |
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The formation of a cohesive western cultural identity.
Creating a sense of unity among the people, a synthesized Classical-Christian-Germanic tradition |
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| Both Backman and Einhard point out that Charlemagne was |
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| A good swimmer, intellectually curious, an insomniac, a good speaker |
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| During the Carolingian period, members of the lower clergy were technically |
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| Backman tells us about Liutberga, a young Saxon women who became a |
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| Religious recluse and prphetess |
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| In Alcuin's Life of Willibrord the author compares Willibrord to |
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| According to Alcuin, willibrord spend twelve years studying at monasteries in |
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| According to einhard what was Charlemagne's reaction to the deaths of his children and close friends? |
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| Grief-stricken, burst into tears, weeping |
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| Einhard's Life of Charlemagne spends a lot of time talking about |
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| Charlemagne's various war campaigns |
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| Accoding to the introduction to Two Lives of Charlemagne, Notker is probably also |
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