Greeece Pt 2

Question 1

Gallic chieftain killing himself and his wife

Answer 1

National museum of Rome, Rome

Question 2

Laocoon and his sons

Answer 2

Vatican museum, Vatican

Question 3

Nike of Samothrace

Answer 3

The louvre museum, Paris

Question 4

Market woman

Answer 4

Metropolitan museum of art, NY

Question 5

Aphrodite of Melos

Answer 5

The Louvre museum, Paris
Partially nude
More erotic than if she were fully nude

Question 6

Aphrodite of Knidos

Answer 6

Sculptor: Praxiteles

Completely nude with right hand covering pubis not as erotic as Aphrodite of Melos

Question 7

Altar of Zeus at Pergamon

Answer 7

Pergamon museum Berlin

Question 8

Aeschylus

Answer 8

1st major Greek playwright and tragedian
Ultimate justice of the Gods
Human suffering was traceable to foolish act (consequences extended)
Is responsible for the Orestia trilogy
Is credited with adding the second character to the Greek theater.

Question 9

Orestia (3)

Answer 9

1. Agamemnon
2. Choephori
3. Eumenides

Question 10

Sophocles

Answer 10

Human destiny is seen in the light of moral law
Human blindness to truth
Greatest Greek Tragedian
Used exits and entrances for dramatic impact
Misinterpretation of nature causes pain/death
Truth seen in dreams oracles or seers (Tiresians)

Question 11

Euripides or (Shakespeare of the time)

Answer 11

Very known for his female roles
Uses Great Realism
Hecuba: few tragedies basically everyone ends up hopeless or dead
Major theme: we are alone, Gods or fate are not responsible for our sorrows

Question 12

Jason ( Medea)

Answer 12

Husband of Medea and of Glauce

Jason and the Argonauts, discovered Golden Fleece.

Question 13

Glauce (Medea)

Answer 13

Daughter of Creon, King of Corinth; wife of Jason who is killed by Medea

Question 14

Clytemnestra

Answer 14

Wife of Agamemnon, who kills his concubine and is killed by her son Orestes

Question 15

Cassandra

Answer 15

Agamemnons concubine

Question 16

Hecuba

Answer 16

Wife of King Priam who’s life spirals downhill when they lose the war and she gets captured as a slave and sees her children dying

Question 17

Iphigenia and polyxena

Answer 17

Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Primcess of Argos.

Agamemnon is forced to sacrifice her so ships can sail to Troy

Question 18

Polydorus

Answer 18

Youngest son of Hecuba and King Priam of Troy
Sent to King Creon of Corinth to stay safe if anything went wrong in the war with an endowment
Is killed to favor Greeks body dumped at see and his body is found by Hecuba.

Question 19

Dying Gallic trumpeter

Answer 19

Museo capitolino, Rome