Analyze the Humanities Chapter 3 Essay – Flashcards
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During the Hellenic Age, a dominant feature of Greek society was
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Instability within each polis
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One of the ideals the Greeks strived for was a
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Balance or moderation in life
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To the Greeks, which two gods manifested the extremes of moderation and excess
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Apollo and Dionysus
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In a famous speech, Picles boasted that Athens
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Was the model for Greece
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Why was Athens unable to win the war of attrition against Sparta
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A plague devastated the city of Athens
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The primary cause of the Peloponnesian War was
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Athen's growing might and precarious military alliances
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What development followed the death of Alexander with respect to Athens
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Athens was conquered by the Macedonians, and an aristocratic government was installed
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The dream of Alexander the Great was to
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Create a united world based on Greek and Persian culture
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A common goal of the arts in classical Greece was to
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Strive toward perfection, an ideal form
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Greek drama had which of the following features
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It affirmed a basic moral order to the world
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Aristotle's Poetics claims that the purpose of tragedy is to
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Bring about catharsis
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The Oresteia trilogy involved
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Many moral issues
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In Sophocles' Antigone, Antigone opposes Creon because Creon
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places the state's laws above the divine
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Euripidies wrote plays that can be described as
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Often skeptical about religion
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The comic playwright who satirized Socrates as a hopeless dreamer was
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Aristophanes
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The primary featu of the Old Comedy of Geece, and its chief legacy, was
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Poltical criticism
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In the play Lysistrata, Aristophanes has the women of Athens ans Sparta withold sex from their husbands
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To protest the absurdity of war
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The Greeks believed that music
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Serve ethical and educational functions
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The two founders of Greek historical writing were
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Herodotus and Thucydides
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The best surviving history of the Peloponnesian War wasa written by which eyewitness
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Thucydides
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Thucydides was a forerunner of more recent historians in that he was concerned with
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Cause and effect
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The Sophists could be described in all of the following ways EXCEPT as
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Developers of atomistic theories
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Protagoras is fomous for saying
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"Man is the measure of all things"
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Sorates criticized the Sohists for their
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Rejection of an enduring moral order in the universe
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What did Socrates mean by "Virtue is Knowledge"
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If one knows what is good, one will not commit evil acts
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Socrates was accused of
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Corrupting the youth of Athens
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The Socratic method of teaching can be described as a
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Process of asking questions to expose limitations in knowledge
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The life of Socrates is known mainly through
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Plato's dialogues
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Plato's most important contributions to Western philosophy was his
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Establishment of the philosophical basis of Western idealism
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In the Republic, Plato created
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An ideal society run by philosopher-kings
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Xenophon reasoned that married women's responsibilities included all of the following EXCEPT
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Submitting to the husband's will in all things
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Unlike Plato, Aristotle
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believed that form and matter were inseparable
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Which of the following is NOT a way in which Aristotle has influenced Western thought
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His ethical writigns became the prevailing moral code of the west
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Who is known as the "Father of Medicine"
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Hippocrates
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In what way did the western Greek architects differ from eastern Greek architects
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They were more experimental
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Aristophanes' Lysistrata principally criticizes
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The Pelopnnesian War
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The central temple on the Acropolis was the
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Parthenon
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The Parthenon has become one of the most important architectural landmarks in the West for all of the followng reasons EXCEPT that
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It inspred Gothic art
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A comparison of the Doric and Ionic orders of columns reveals that
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The Ionic is more decorated than the Doric, Most of the early temples were built with Doric columns, The Ionic column has a capital that looks like a scroll or the horns of a ram
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Which temole on the Acropolis was dedicated to Athens, Poseidon, and the legendary ruler who introduced the horse to Athens
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Erechtheus
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The architectbMnesicles designed which building on the Athenian Acropolis
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The Erechtheum
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Greek sculptors carved the human form in a graceful pose known as
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Contrapposto
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The Severe style of Hellenic sculpture was characterized by
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Contrapposto and mastered representation of musculature
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The high classical sculptural style attempted to
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show motion in a static medium
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The frieze that decorated the Parthenon
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Included humas, bestial creatures, and deities
