Art And drama

Question 1

Odeon of Pericles

Answer 1

Said to be an exact representation of the king of Persia’s pavilion

Plutarch 13

Question 2

Pausanias 1.22

Answer 2

There is but one entry to the Acropolis [the Propylaea] + it was “unrivalled for the beauty and size of its stones”

Question 3

Aristophanes knights

Answer 3

The leadership of the people is no longer a job for an educated man or one of good qualities but for the one who’s ignorant and foul

Question 4

Thucydides 10

Answer 4

One would conjecture from what met the eye that the city had been twice as powerful as it is

Question 5

Aristophanes most significant plays and dates

Answer 5

426: babylonians (unsuccessful prosecution from Cleon for “embarrassing Athens in front of her allies”)
424: knights (Cleon portrayed as the Paphlagonian)
423: clouds (ridicules Socrates)
422: Wasps (ridicules jury service)
411: Lysistrata (women sex striking) + Thesmophoriazusae (women planning to obliterate Euripides)

Question 6

Hippolytus’ rejection…

Answer 6

Of Aphrodite […] is a subverting of his passage to manhood”

Simon Goldhill

Question 7

“Well, they’re the only deities we have/

Answer 7

The rest are just so much hocus pocus”

Aristophanes Clouds

Question 8

The women have been…

Answer 8

Plotting against me. And today, at the Thesmophoria, they’re going to debate my downfall.

Aristophanes Thesmaphirazusae

The play is perhaps fanciful escapism from the darker events of 411 (war with Sparta drawing to a close; a series of bad events had befallen Athens - military defeats)

Question 9

Do not let it be charged…

Answer 9

To the public account but to my own, and I will dedicate all the public buildings in my name

Plutarch 14

Question 10

Despite his unselfishness,

Answer 10

There can be no doubt as to his power

Plutarch 16

Question 11

For thinking in their pride…

Answer 11

That nothing stood in the way of their taking Athens, they were bringing a piece of Parian marble to make a trophy

Pausanias 1.33

Question 12

Metopes represent:

Answer 12

The story of the development of order out of chaos, and civilisation out of barbarism

Percy Gardner

Question 13

Only the Athenians are “able to…

Answer 13

Take possession of the wealth of the Greeks and of foreigners”

O.O 2.11

Refers to the monopolisation of trade in the Aegean
Link to Poseidon temple at Sounion

Question 14

His object being that…

Answer 14

Those who stayed at home […] Should be able to enjoy a share of the national wealth

Plutarch 12

Question 15

The city’s prosperity…

Answer 15

Was extended far and wide and shared among every age and condition in Athens

Plutarch 12

Question 16

The reserve funds drawn up for the projects was:

Answer 16

“At its maximum […] 9700 talents”

Thucydides 1.23

Question 17

The statue of Athena was:

Answer 17

“Made of Ivory and gold”

Pausanias 1.24.5

Question 18

Dates of important Athenian buildings

Answer 18

Athena Promachos: 450s
Parthenon: 447-432
Temple of Poseidon at Sounion: 444-440
Propylaea: 437-432
Odeon: 435
Erechtheion: 425-404
Temple of Athena Nike: c.420

Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous

Question 19

Context of the Parthenon

Answer 19

Build 447

• still in peacetime with Sparta (5 year truce made 451) so It’s toric architecture is perhaps a note to a more peaceful relationship
  – however, Athen’s empire was starting to rebel (Euboea Megara etc)
• by 446 Sparta had invaded Attica, but Athens then made a 30 peace with them
  -suggests the Parthenon was meant to display Athenian wealth and remind the Péloponnèse of their role in the Persian wars, but not meant to antagonise them

Question 20

Lysistrata quote

Answer 20

Spartan: well, we want peace - provided we get back / this round, enclosed part.
Lysistrata: which?
Spartan: the read - Pylos. / we’ve long requested it, and tried to probe.

Question 21

A person so treated in comedy…

Answer 21

Does not, for the most part, come from the populace and mass of people but as a person of Wealth, high birth, or influence

The people feel no vexation at seeing such persons abused in comedy

OO 2.18

Question 22

Euripides Ion

Answer 22

Ion: because you are childless, you are envious that my father found me.

[…] at the end:

Creusa: i am no longer childless; this house is established