Final

Question 1

Hellenism

Answer 1

Age of powerful Greek culture

Question 2

Hamartia

Answer 2

tragic flaw

Question 3

Hubris

Answer 3

pride that leads man to disregard warning or violate important law

Question 4

Tragic Hero

Answer 4

• good & evil
• moves us to pity & fear
• like us but better than we are
• suffers change in fortune because of mistaken act

Question 5

5 Qualities of a true leader

Answer 5

1. weakness of heroic impulse
2. learn to deal with adversity
3. subordinate passion into duty
4. confidence in mission when others don’t
5. big picture

Question 6

deme

Answer 6

political division

Question 7

phratria

Answer 7

brotherhood

Question 8

phratreres

Answer 8

ushered a man into manhood

Question 9

princeps civitatis

Answer 9

first citizens of the state

Question 10

Aeschylus

Answer 10

Agamemnon

• Men of violence do things that outrage justice, bring retribution, and provoke further acts of violence
• Past is always a menus to the future
• Invented the 2nd actor, reduced chorus, ‘protagonist’

Question 11

Sophocles

Answer 11

Odeipus the King

• how humans affect own destiny
• invented 3rd actor, reduced chorus, use of props
• how men should be

Question 12

Euripides

Answer 12

Medea

• universe is indifferent to good or bad deed and human suffering
• human beings must gain wisdom through suffering alone w/ out assistance
• invented agon
• how men are

Question 13

Aristophanes

Answer 13

Lysistrata

Question 14

Sappho

Answer 14

Poems

*analysis of love and how love makes us vulnerable and how vulnerability leads to knowledge

Question 15

Horace

Answer 15

Odes Book 1

• seize the day
• friendships and short life
• Greek love of beauty w/ Roman love of duty

Question 16

Virgil

Answer 16

The Aeneid

-presents Romans as they should be

Question 17

Ovid

Answer 17

Amores, Metamorphosis

• human activities that are just as important as military, that don’t have to end with death
• presents Romans as they are
• mocks traditional Roman values
• adjusts poetic meter to mock epic and everything that epic stands for

Question 18

Marcus Aurelius

Answer 18

Meditations

• avoid distractions and concentrate on making correct moral choice
• individual must work for common good
• gods will provide

Question 19

Matthew

Answer 19

New Testament

• avoid distractions and concentrate on making correct moral choice
• individual must work for common good
• gods will provide

Question 20

Agon

Answer 20

rapid argument between two characters

Question 21

dike

Answer 21

justice

Question 22

heterai

Answer 22

escort

Question 23

Lares

Penates

Answer 23

(household gods)

• spirits of kitchen
• spirits of dead ancestors

Question 24

pietas

Answer 24

duty

Question 25

furor

Answer 25

passion

Question 26

at regina

Answer 26

independent acts that start w/ same lines to indicate a tragic

Question 27

paterfamilias

Answer 27

• head of family (godfather)

- power was absolute

Question 28

Stoic ethics

Answer 28

1. virtue = happiness
2. virtue = good
3. human beings should live in accordance w/ reason

Question 29

Greek Tragedy

Answer 29

• heroic, but struggle of individual mind and will against gods, enemies, or fate
• attendance was civic duty
  1. forums for public consideration of funamental issues of morality and politics
  2. educate themselves to for self-gov tasks
• learn wisdom through suffering of others, making them better citizens

Question 30

Comedy

Answer 30

-chorus
-break fourth wall
-plot is unrealistic
prominent men in society are ridiculed
-social & political purpose

Question 31

Lyric poetry

Answer 31

-preformed by amateurs; educated pple expected to compose and preform (after-dining singing)

Question 32

fourth wall

Answer 32

address audience

Question 33

Roman influences

Answer 33

-public works, roads, concrete, medicine, botony, government