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How did Ancient Greek knowledge get to medieval Europe?

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Ancient Greeks > scholars in Italy fled to Byzantium > Byzantine libraries/schools/scholars > Islamic scholars and centers of learning > Western Europe

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Justinian

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-reconquered and reclaimed Italy
-had a strong and capable wife
-was educated in Latin and Greek
-loved building projects
-loved the arts

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Four books of Justinian Code

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  1. Codex Justinianus
  2. Digesta
  3. Institutiones
  4. Novellae Constitutiones
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What is Codex Justinianus?

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compilation of laws from earlier Roman empires

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What is the Digesta?

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compliation of writings from Roman jurists

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What is Institutiones?

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textbook law for law students

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What is Novellae Constitutiones?

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new laws enacted by Justinian

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Who wrote “The Histories”?

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Herodotus

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Who wrote “The Republic?”

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Plato

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Who founded the Lyceum?

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Aristotle

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Who wrote the “Apology”?

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Plato

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Who wrote “Politics?”

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Aristotle

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13
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Who did not have any written works?

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Socrates

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Who founded the Academy?

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Plato

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Who wrote “Ethics”?

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Aristotle

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Who wrote “On the Soul and Poetics?”

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Aristotle

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Who was famous for teaching in the public places using questioning?

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Socrates

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Characteristics of Kore/Korai

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-6th century
-smooth, rounded muscles and an extended arm
-archaic smile and decorated hairstyle
-paint

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Who was the most successful Athenian dramatist?

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Sophocles

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Thick, simple columns that tapered dramatically

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Doric columns

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Thinner, more graceful looking columns that tapered slightly

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Ionic columns

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Three part of the building: architrave, frieze, cornice

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entablature

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contained sculptured scenes on a building

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metope

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lots of 3-D in the sculpture

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high relief

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flatter, less depth, more 2-D in the sculpture
low relief
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columns that swell dramatically in the middle, looking like they're really bearing the weight of the entablature
entasis
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the triangle part of the frieze, usually contained sculpture of high or low relief
pediment
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columns on all four sides of the building
peristyle
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widely available building material
limestone
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scarce building material
marble
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style name for realistic art that portrays wisdom and age
veristic style
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What did Cicero write?
record of the court proceedings which resulted in his exile
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Two features that shaped the look of Roman architecture
arch and concrete
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Who believed everything has its origins in water
Thales of Miletus
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Who believed the world is made up of a single common material: air
Anazimenes
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Who believed you can't step into the same river twice
Heraclitus
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Who believed that man is the measure of all things (rather than the divine)
Protagoras
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Who believed in the four elements: earth, air, fire, water
Empedocles of Acragas
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Who believed matter is made of infinitely small parts
Anaxagoras
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Who believed you can't trust your senses
Parmenides
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Who believed the unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
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Who believed in ideal forms
Plato
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Who believed it is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
Aristotle
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"For I go about doing nothing but persuading you all, young and old, not to care for your bodies for money more than for the excellence of your souls, saying that virus does not come from money, but that it is from virtue that money comes and every other good of man, both private and public." comes from
Plato's "Apology"
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Who was the leader of Greece during the Golden Age, connected with the great achievements of Athens? AKA "First Citizen of Athens"
Pericles
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Who was the emperor during the Great Persecution of 303-311?
Diocletian
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Who was the emperor that moved the capital?
Constantine
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Who was the emperor that issued the Edict of Milan 313?
Constantine
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Who was the emperor that declared himself semi-divine
Diocletian
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Who was the emperor that divided the empire into two, then divided it again?
Diocletian
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Who was the emperor that managed to protect the borders of the Roman empire?
Diocletian
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Who was the emperor known for the Tetrarchy of Four?
Diocletian
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Who was the emperor known for an era of toleration?
Constantine
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Who was the emperor that shifted the center of the Roman Empire to the east?
Constantine
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Who was the emperor that became Christian?
Constantine
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Who was the emperor that had the Council of Nicaea?
Constantine
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wars between Rome and Carthage
Punic wars
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a sculpture in motion
Discobolos
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the characteristic of 3D in a sculpture
Relief
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a landowner in ancient Rome, but not elite
Plebian
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six groups of long-short-short syllables
Dactylic hexameter
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wars between Greece and Darius 1 and his successors
Persian War
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the upper class in ancient Rome
Patrician
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wars between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies
Peloponnesian Wars
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four rulers of the divided Roman empire
Tetrarchy
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the ideal male proportion
Doryphoros
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politically neutral organization of Greek city-states
Delian League
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music or poetry that typically represents Dionysus
Dithyramb
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a four-note scale
tetrachord
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the chanting or psalms by a Jewish rabbi
Cantillation
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a two-pipe reed instrument
aulos
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a scale whose particular arrangement of whole- and half- steps creates a unique mood or sound
mode
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the second level of a basilica or church
clerestory
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Ka'bah
cube
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triangles formed by the intersection of two arches
pendentive
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whether or not it was blasphemous to use images or icons in art
iconoclastic controversy
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a horizontal band at the top of a building decorated with sculpture
frieze
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the triangular upper section of the front of a classical building
pediment
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an oil flask used for funerary offerings and painted with mourning or graveside scenes
Lekythos
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lighthearted, for the purpose of comic relief in the middle of tragedies
Satyr play
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Mathematical proportions in the movements of celestial bodies as a form of music
Music of the spheres
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Characteristics of Islamic art
-abstract geometric patterns -calligraphy -words of the Qur'an -varies depending on region and culture elegantly curving vegetal and floral shapes
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Who was a commentator on Aristotle; father of secular thought in the West; reconciled Greek philosophy with Islam?
Averroes
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Who was a Persian scientist and philosopher and commentator on Aristotle?
Avicenna
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Who was a scientist and physician that said that washing your hands prevents the spread of disease?
Maimonides
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Who invented algebra and 0?
al-Kwarizmi
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Who invented decimals and correctly calculated the solar year?
al-Uqlidisi
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Dome of the Rock religion
Christianity, Judaism, Islam
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Wailing Wall religion
Judaism
90
Scala Santa religion
Christianity
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What material was used to build many Abbassid buildings?
mud bricks
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Who built the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
Umayyad Caliphate
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Who built the Mosque of Samarra?
Abbasid Caliphate
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Who built the House of Wisdom?
Abbasid Caliphate
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Who built the Great Mosque of Damascus?
Umayyad Caliphate
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Who built the Great Mosque of al-Mutawakill
Abbasid Caliphate
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Who built the Great Mosque of Cordoba?
Umayyad Caliphate
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Music 202 Exam 1 (5 decks)

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