Exam 2

Question 0

Agora

Answer 0

Large open space that served as a public meeting place, marketplace & civic center

Question 1

Aeschylus

Answer 1

The father of tragedy, created dialogue

Question 2

Alexander the Great

Answer 2

Son of Philip II, student of Aristotle who conquered many cities

Question 3

Alexandria

Answer 3

Great city in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great, home of the first museum

Question 4

Ancient Olympic Games

Answer 4

Competed in the nude

Question 5

Aristophanes

Answer 5

Father of comedy, very popular, one of the greatest Greek playwrights

Question 6

Aristotle

Answer 6

Empirical investigation, changes a thing undergoes while still remaining it’s essential nature

Question 7

Delian league

Answer 7

Greek city states whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian empire

Question 8

Ephors

Answer 8

Leaders of ancient Sparta

Question 9

Epicureanism

Answer 9

Random chance, fear is the cause of all misery, gods play no part in human affairs, highest good = pleasure

Question 10

Greek architecture (parts)

Answer 10

Platform, column, entablature

Question 11

3 types of Greek architecture

Answer 11

Doric, ionic, Corinthian

Question 12

Golden section

Answer 12

How the Greeks believed a building should be proportioned (8:5)

Question 13

Greek dark ages

Answer 13

Long period of cultural decline, probably caused by the Dorians

Question 14

Greek sculpture

Answer 14

Main theme is human greatness, fascination with male body

Question 15

Greek tragedy

Answer 15

Explored the physical and moral depths to which human life can descend

Question 16

Helots

Answer 16

Slaves in Sparta

Question 17

Herodotus

Answer 17

Father of history

Question 18

Iliad

Answer 18

Epic poem by homer about an episode in the trojan war

Question 19

Social status of Greek women

Answer 19

Aristocratic women were marginalized, non aristocratic women simply didn’t matter

Question 20

Milesian school

Answer 20

Thales, Anaximenes, Anaximander

Question 21

The Mycenaeans

Answer 21

Warlike people who overtook Crete

Question 22

The Parthenon

Answer 22

Built to give thanks to Athena and demonstrate the power of Athens

Question 23

Pericles

Answer 23

Pushed through a number of reforms to make Athens democratic

Question 24

Protagoras

Answer 24

Sophist, “man is the measure of all things”

Question 25

The republic

Answer 25

Plato

Question 26

Stoicism

Answer 26

Everything happens for a reason, no one is a master of their own fate, good and evil are relative