Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato

Question 1

Euripides wrote over ___ plays

Answer 1

90

Question 2

Compared with Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides was both more humorous and ____

Answer 2

dark

Question 3

Whereas Sophocles showed people as they ought to be, Euripides showed them as they _____

Answer 3

are

Question 4

The hero Jason was told by his uncle that he could not claim his rightful inheritance unless he brought back to Greece the ___________

Answer 4

Golden Fleece

Question 5

Why is the ending of Euripides’ Medea a shock to his audience?

Answer 5

He focuses on the aftermath of the quest and he seems to have invented key aspects of his story

Question 6

Medea is strongly marked as an outsider in three crucial ways which are:

Answer 6

1. A woman in male dominated world
2. A foreigner in a Greek City
3. A smart person surrounded by fools

Question 7

How many of Aristophanes dramas survive in complete form?

Answer 7

11

Question 8

We learn that Aristophanes poked fun at political demagogues such as Creon and playwrights like Euripides, but he wouldn’t poke fun at Socrates right?

Answer 8

He mocks him by presenting him as a sophist with dangerous ideas that may corrupt the young and bring down traditional Athens

Question 9

In Aristophanes play Birds, what did the birds do in their attempt to force Zeus to surrender rule of the universe?

Answer 9

The birds cut off the smoke of sacrifice that the gods live on

Question 10

What does Lysitrata’s name mean?

Answer 10

Dissolver of Armies

Question 11

Aristophanes suggests what as the dirty secret of imperialism?

Answer 11

War and territorial aggression are a substitute for sex and vice versa

Question 12

Aristophanes comedy, Lyristrata was successful in its aim putting an end to war by putting the women in charge?

Answer 12

NO

Question 13

It has often been said that all later Western philosophical writings are just _____________

Answer 13

Footnotes to plato

Question 14

PLato’s name means

Answer 14

Broad shouldered

Question 15

What was his real name

Answer 15

Aristocles

Question 16

Plato and Xenophon are the only two writers who leave us with any substantial information about Socrates. Why does a comparison of their writings leave us with doubts about the historical (or real) Socrates?

Answer 16

Xenophon and Plato describe two very different versions of Socrates. Xenophon describes him as a conventional teacher who is straightforward, and tells people what to do and think. Plato, on the other hand, describes him as a puzzling figure who claims not to be a teacher at all, and works by questions, irony, and myth.

Question 17

What is the name of the dialogue that narrates a fictional account of Socrates brave end?

Answer 17

Phaedo

Question 18

What is the name of the dialogue that is most famous, an account of an ideal political and educational system?

Answer 18

The Republic

Question 19

What is the name of the first ever philosophical school with a permanent location?

Answer 19

The academy

Question 20

What does the name Symposium mean?

Answer 20

Drinking party

Question 21

Identify the following characters in the Symposium:

• the soupy young tragic poet: ________
• the pompously scientific doctor: __________
• the hiccupping fantastical comedian:________
• the drunken playboy: _________

Answer 21

Agathon
Eryximachus
Aristophanes
Alcibiades

Question 22

What is the main topic of discussion or praise at the symposium?

Answer 22

Eros or sexual love

Question 23

What is the word for a speech of praise?

Answer 23

Encomium

Question 24

ALl the speakers in the Symposium are male with the exception of

Answer 24

Diotima

Question 25

Who is Diotima?

Answer 25

A likely fictional woman who taught Socrates what love is

Question 26

According to Aristophanes’s myth of the true original source of love is a matter of reuniting with ones other ______

Answer 26

half