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Greek Culture Flashcards

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1
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Name three gods who are always in power in their area of power?

A

Zeus head or father
Apollo sun poetry
Aphrodite love

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What are two ways people try to gain the gods favor?

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Festivals

prayer

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3
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What was their religious theology

A

They had none

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4
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What god ruled the underworld?

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Hades

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5
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Where did people go to solicit advice from the gods?
Where was The most famous one?
What characterized the advice given

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Oracles
Delphi
Deliberately misleading

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6
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When were the first Olympics?

A

776 BC

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7
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What was considered their most famous temple?

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Parathenon

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8
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What was the purpose for their sculptures?

A

Ideals

life like

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9
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Who is Polyclitus?

A

Proportion everything had to be life like

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10
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What form of drama did they first invent?

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Tragedy

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11
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The only one complete trilogy still exists- oresteia. Who was its author?

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AESCHYLUS

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12
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What was Aeschylus better known for other than his plays?

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Warrior

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13
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What was the story line in the famous play Oedipus Rex?

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Son would kill father and would marry his mother

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14
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What did Sophocles add to drama that reduce the importance of the chorus?

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Third character

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15
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What are two innovations introduced by the dramatic to Euripides?

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Antiwar

women in a better light

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16
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Who is the famous writer of comedies?

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Euripides

17
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What did they usually satirize in the comedies?

A

Politicians

18
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What war did the historian Herodotus write about?

A

Persian wars

19
Q

What is the criticism of his history?

A

Biased

20
Q

How Thucydides change the subject matter of history in his record of the Peloponnesian war

A

Emphasize man not gods

21
Q

What does philosophy mean

A

Love of wisdom

22
Q

Who was the first great philosopher

A

Pythagoras

23
Q

What were the sophists and why did people criticize them

A

Traveling teachers and they did it only for the money

24
Q

Who did not write down any of his ideas
Who started the Academy
Who tutored Alexander the great

A

Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

25
Q

Who is considered by some to be the first scientist
Who emphasize that happiness is related to living a virtuous life
His famous essay the cave emphasizes the danger of trusting your senses of believing what you see is real

A

Aristotle
Aristotle
Plato

26
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Who is executed for inciting rebellion in the young people made to drink poison hemlock
Who taught that the unexamined life is not worth living
Who is considered one of the greatest writers in history is ideas even influence Christian thinking

A

Socrates
Socrates
Plato

27
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How many gods made up the Olympic group?

A

12

28
Q

Who was the first scientist

A

Aristotle

29
Q

Which scientist discovered the circumference of the earth

A

Aristophanes

30
Q

Who said we live in a hilo centered universe

A

Aristarchus

31
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What are the three stages in order of the time of the Gentiles?

A

Babylon
Persia
Greece

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