HUM EXAM CP mr. miller Flashcards
who made up the first truimvirate
pompey, julius caesar, and marcus crassus
who wrote the Summa Theologiae and was one of the prominent spokemen for Scholasticism?
Peter Abelard
who were the poorer class who were craftspeople, merchants and laborers
plebeians
who was widely recognized as the author of ‘on the Diseases of Women’
Trotula
what two social and political classes existed in rome
patricians and plebeians
who were the land-owning aristocrats
patricians
what city was built on a hilly site known as the seven hills
rome
who played a significant role in organizing theology students in Paris
robert de sobon
what language was mandatory when attending a university and was taker heir first four years of study?
latin
what greek playwright specialized in writing comedies
aristophanes
where was the sanctuary of apollo located
delphi
who was the king of the persians during the battle of marathon
darius
who was the king of troy during the trojan war
priam
the trivium consisted of what three things?
grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic
what was the first city to found a university, establishing itself as a center for the study of law
bologna
what is the translated greek term for “virtue”
arete
what is the term for the discovery of the principle of weight shift, in which the weight of the body rested on one leg with the body realigned accordingly, giving the illusion of a figure in arrested
motion?
contrapposto
who wrote the illiad the odyssey
homer
who lived in a palace known as the House of the Double Axes
minos
what is the minimum number of voices incuded in a motet
three
viderunt omnes is a ________ polphonic composition intended to be sung in the middle of the Christmas Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
three-part
what animals were associated with male virility
bulls
what greek term translated means “top of the city”
acropolis
what is a myth
a story that culture assume sis true
what egyptian leader was credited with unifying boht upper and lower egypt
narmer
what is the collection of musical works created by several composers which porvided music for all feast days of the church calendar called
magnu libri organi
what figure stands in a contrapposto position on the jamb of Chartres’ south transpet portal
st theodore
osiris was god of what egyptian realm
the dead
who introduced the principle of talion to the Mesopotamian culture
hammurabi
who captured jerusalem, and destroyed the temple of solomon deporting many of hebrews back to babylon
nebuchadnezzar
what term refers to the pictorial convention in which the most important figures are represented in a larger size than the others
heirarchy of scale
what was the support that wa straditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace against strong winds
flying buttress
what was the stained-glass window at the chartres cathedral that shows the geneaolgyof christ
tree of jesse
