Chapter 20 Social History

Question 1

Which city did the Greeks loot and destroy?

Answer 1

The City of Troy

Question 2

Who escaped Troy?

Answer 2

Aeneas

Question 3

Where did Aeneas lead his people?

Answer 3

To Italy after many struggles and hardships.

Question 4

When did the Romans establish their rule over Greece?

Answer 4

197 BC

Question 5

What is the negative view the Roman’s had of the Greeks?

Answer 5

They despised the present weakness of a nation which had driven huge forces of invading Persians from their native soil five centuries before.

Question 6

What is the positive view the Roman’s had of the Greeks?

Answer 6

The Roman’s enormously admired their great art and literature.

Question 7

What languages were the Romans expected to be fluent in? (Quintus had to learn these)

Answer 7

They had to learn Greek and Latin.

Question 8

After Quintus’s education in Rome, what did Quintus study in Greece?

Answer 8

Quintus was taught Greek Philosophy in Greece.

Question 9

What was Pythagoras’s profession?

Answer 9

Mathematics

Question 10

Who was proficient in Mathematics?

Answer 10

Pythagoras

Question 11

What was Euclid’s profession?

Answer 11

Geometry

Question 12

Who was proficient in Geometry?

Answer 12

Euclid

Question 13

What was Ptolemy’s profession?

Answer 13

Astronomy

Question 14

Who was proficient in Astronomy?

Answer 14

Ptolemy

Question 15

What was Archimedes’s profession?

Answer 15

Science

Question 16

Who was proficient in Science?

Answer 16

Archimedes

Question 17

What was Aristotle’s profession?

Answer 17

Natural History

Question 18

Who was proficient in Natural History?

Answer 18

Aristotle

Question 19

What was Demosthenes’s profession?

Answer 19

Mastery of the art of the speaking

Question 20

Who was proficient in the mastery of the art of the speaking?

Answer 20

Demosthenes

Question 21

What was Pheidias’s profession?

Answer 21

Architecture and Sculpture

Question 22

What was Praxiteles’s profession?

Answer 22

Architecture and Sculpture

Question 23

Who was proficient in architecture and sculpture?

Answer 23

Pheidias and Praxiteles

Question 24

What was Plato’s profession?

Answer 24

Philosophical Tradition

Question 25

Who was proficient in Philosophical Tradition?

Answer 25

Plato

Question 26

What subject were the Greeks really superior in?

Answer 26

Literature

Question 27

What did Homer write?

Answer 27

Poems

Question 28

What did Aeschylus write?

Answer 28

Tragic plays

Question 29

What did Sophocles write?

Answer 29

Tragic plays

Question 30

What did Euripides write?

Answer 30

Tragic plays

Question 31

Who wrote tragic plays? (There are 3 of them)

Answer 31

Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

Question 32

What is the famous quote Horace said?

Answer 32

“Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit” (Captured Greece captured her wild conquere)

Basically means while Rome had captured Greece, Greece captivated Rome.

Question 33

What sort of literary work did Herodotus and Thucydides write?

Answer 33

Lyrical poetry

Question 34

Why did the Romans still think they were superior compared to the Greeks?

Answer 34

The Romans had their feet planted compared to the talented but unreliable Greeks.

Question 35

What did Virgil’s Anchises state was the mission of Aeneas?

Answer 35

How to control a civilisation and rule over many people.