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1
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Euripides wrote over ___ plays

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90

2
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Compared with Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides was both more humorous and ____

A

dark

3
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Whereas Sophocles showed people as they ought to be, Euripides showed them as they _____

A

are

4
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The hero Jason was told by his uncle that he could not claim his rightful inheritance unless he brought back to Greece the ___________

A

Golden Fleece

5
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Why is the ending of Euripides’ Medea a shock to his audience?

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He focuses on the aftermath of the quest and he seems to have invented key aspects of his story

6
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Medea is strongly marked as an outsider in three crucial ways which are:

A
  1. A woman in male dominated world
  2. A foreigner in a Greek City
  3. A smart person surrounded by fools
7
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How many of Aristophanes dramas survive in complete form?

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11

8
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We learn that Aristophanes poked fun at political demagogues such as Creon and playwrights like Euripides, but he wouldn’t poke fun at Socrates right?

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He mocks him by presenting him as a sophist with dangerous ideas that may corrupt the young and bring down traditional Athens

9
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In Aristophanes play Birds, what did the birds do in their attempt to force Zeus to surrender rule of the universe?

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The birds cut off the smoke of sacrifice that the gods live on

10
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What does Lysitrata’s name mean?

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Dissolver of Armies

11
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Aristophanes suggests what as the dirty secret of imperialism?

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War and territorial aggression are a substitute for sex and vice versa

12
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Aristophanes comedy, Lyristrata was successful in its aim putting an end to war by putting the women in charge?

A

NO

13
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It has often been said that all later Western philosophical writings are just _____________

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Footnotes to plato

14
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PLato’s name means

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Broad shouldered

15
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What was his real name

A

Aristocles

16
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Plato and Xenophon are the only two writers who leave us with any substantial information about Socrates. Why does a comparison of their writings leave us with doubts about the historical (or real) Socrates?

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Xenophon and Plato describe two very different versions of Socrates. Xenophon describes him as a conventional teacher who is straightforward, and tells people what to do and think. Plato, on the other hand, describes him as a puzzling figure who claims not to be a teacher at all, and works by questions, irony, and myth.

17
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What is the name of the dialogue that narrates a fictional account of Socrates brave end?

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Phaedo

18
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What is the name of the dialogue that is most famous, an account of an ideal political and educational system?

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The Republic

19
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What is the name of the first ever philosophical school with a permanent location?

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The academy

20
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What does the name Symposium mean?

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Drinking party

21
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Identify the following characters in the Symposium:

  • the soupy young tragic poet: ________
  • the pompously scientific doctor: __________
  • the hiccupping fantastical comedian:________
  • the drunken playboy: _________
A

Agathon
Eryximachus
Aristophanes
Alcibiades

22
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What is the main topic of discussion or praise at the symposium?

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Eros or sexual love

23
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What is the word for a speech of praise?

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Encomium

24
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ALl the speakers in the Symposium are male with the exception of

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Diotima

25
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Who is Diotima?

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A likely fictional woman who taught Socrates what love is

26
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According to Aristophanes’s myth of the true original source of love is a matter of reuniting with ones other ______

A

half