Greek Civ I – Flashcards
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According to Aristotle, the Golden Mean is equally distinct from extremes and is relative to ourselves (t/f)
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True
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According to Aristotle, what is of great importance to the conduct of life?
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knowledge of supreme good
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According to Plato, the higher reality of eternal truths, which he calls _________, is distinct from the imperfect and transient objects of sensory experience, which are mere copies of ________.
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forms
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Although Greek popular religion produced no sacred scriptures or doctrines, the oracle at Delphi became very famous throughout the region (t/f)
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true
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Aristotle accepted Plato's Theory of Forms, expanding on them in his own works and theories. (t/f)
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false
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Citizens of Athens included which of the following?
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only landed males over the age of eighteen
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In his Funeral Speech, Pericles ties the concepts of humanism and individualism to civic patriotism. (t/f)
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true
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As punishment for the death of Antigone, Creon is put to death in the play. (t/f)
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false
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In the dialogue of Crito, Socrates explains that to run away from his death sentence would be to overcome the laws by which he has lived. His escape would represent an implicit criticism of the oligarchic system and the empire that he had defended throughout his life. For Socrates, the loyalty of the citizen to the polis, like that of the child to its parents, is thus not a primary obligation.(t/f)
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false
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In what way is the citadel of Mycenae associated with Homer's The Iliad?
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Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks against Troy, was from Mycenae.
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Like the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, the Pre-Socratics deified nature and focused on the animate forces of natural elements. (t/f)
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false
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More so than any other philosopher, Aristotle contributed to ethics, or the branch of philosophy that sets forth the principles of human conduct. (f/t)
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false
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Pericles reviews the "________________" by which Athens rose to power, describing Athens as the model and the teacher for all the other Greek communities.
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principles of action
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Plato's Theory of Forms laid the basis for philosophical idealism, but NOT for the separation of mind and matter. (t/f)
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false
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Plato's Crito is an account of Socrates's execution, and correspondingly serves as a good summary of Socratic philosophy. (t/f)
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true
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Socrates used a question-and-answer technique that we know as the dialectical method. (t/f)
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true
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The Iliad, a story of the Achaean (ancient Greek) hero Achilles, who, moved to anger by an affront to his honor, refuses to join the battle against Troy alongside his Achaean comrades. (t/f)
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true
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The Mycenaeans, like the Minoans, were seafarers who remained unconcerned with defensive structures. (t/f)
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false
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The Sophists and the humanist philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle moved beyond the naturalists to probe the nature of human knowledge, the question of right conduct, and the advance of wisdom. (t/f)
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true
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The Sophists are considered the first humanist philosophers, in in part because they were concerned with the question "How do we know what we know?" and they followed the famous dictum "Man is the measure of all things." (t/f)
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true
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The early Greek city-states were forced to unite against the rising threat of
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the Persians
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The lack of walls around the Palace of Knossos on Crete seems to suggest that the Minoans felt secure on the island--and perhaps speaks to the power they enjoyed around the Mediterranean. (t/f)
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true
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The most powerful deity of the Greek pantheon was
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Zeus
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The so-called "father of history" who introduced a travelogue of his trips to Egypt and Asia was Agamemnon (t/f)
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false
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The term Minoan was given the Bronze Age culture after King Minos from the island of Crete.(t/f)
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true
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What is a deductive scheme that presents two premises from which a conclusion can be drawn?
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syllogism
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Which of the following defines the term "hubris"?
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excessive pride
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Who believed that all universal relationships are expressed through numbers?
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Pythagoras
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________ was a leading statesman and proponent of Athenian democracy who dominated the city-states politics for over thirty years.
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Pericles
