Midterm questions Flashcards
The city of god was written to demonstrate that
history had a direction willed by god
“For I go about doing nothing but persuading you all, young and old not to care for your bodies for money more than for the excellence of your souls, saying that virtue does not come from money, but that it is from virtue that money comes and every other good of man, both private and public.” is from…?
Plato’s Apology
The Gothic style of architecture was begun at _____ by Abbot Suger
Saint Denis
A meander is a
maze-like pattern found of greek vases
the Aenid was designed to
honor rome, honor augustus, be the roman national epic, (all of the above)
This was the nature of my sickness. I was in torment, reproaching myself more bitterly than ever as I twisted and turned in my chain. I hoped that my chain might be broken once and for all, because it was only a small thing that held me now. All the same it held me.
St. Augustin
The most prosperous and successful of the great athenian dramatists was
sophocles
The life of Benedictine monk can be summarized in the motto
pray and work
Socrates sought to find great men he though were wise than him in order learn from them. Instead, he discovered that
The didn’t know that they didn’t know
thomas aquinas tried to reconcile
reason and revelation
roman civilization is divided into two main periods:
republican Rome and Imperial Rome
Which of the following is not true o the dipylon amphora
was used for storing wine
medieval philosophical thought is known for primarily being
synthetic and hierarchical
for which greek dramatist was the chorus used mainly to punctuate the action by dividing it into separate episodes?
euripedes
Rich evidence about the daily life of ancient rome is provided by _______
the ruins of pompeii the writings of suetonius, the letters of cicero the elder, (all of the above)
“He smashes through the steel and skull and bones and bursting both his eyeballs from his head he tumbles him down lifeless at his feet…”
song of roland
the collection of writings called ____ was one in which polykleitos devised a mathematical formula for respresenting the perfect male body
the canon
praxiteles was
one of the first to introduce sensuality into the female sculpted figure
julius casesar’s ‘commentaries’ (literary work) are primarily about
his military campaigns
in the apple bough the coolness
Murmurs, and the grey leaves flicker
Where sleep wanders.
In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy fluttering footfall
Through the twilight
this is quoted from
Sappho
the musical term for a single unaccompanied melodic line is
monophony
which of the following is not a central characteristic of art in classical greece
rigid, stylized stances
Augustine’s confessions is an important work because it _______
is the beginning of self-reflective biography in the west, balances immense learning with immense self-scrutiny, is concerned with the most profound philosophical questions, (all of the above)
One of the great Roman buildings to survive the Barbarian invasions in the Pantheon. It features _______
granite columns with corinthian capitals, a grand portico, and a dome
which of the following sculptures best reflects the central characterstics of Classical Greek art?
Discobolus
the decorative scheme of a gothic cathedral was an attempt to
tell an integrated story about salvation
… you cannot step twice into the same stream…
the originator of the philosophy stated above was _______
heraclitus
Organum is
adding newly-composed polyphonic voices to plainchant
the creation story of Genesis
says God existed, before anything else, says God’s creation is all good, places humans as the highest creation. (all of the above)
One of the principal ideals of Abbot Suger was the symbolism of
light
the main theme of the Iliad is ____-
Achilles’ anger and its consequences
In the Iliad, the gods ___
enforce the rules, but tend not to intervene
The torah, the prophets, and the writings constitute the ____
bible of the hebrews
Carmina Burana is _______
a collection of medieval student poems
greek vases from 1000 BC to 700 BC typically feature
abstract geometric designs
the roman variety of chant made obligatory through the carolingian empire was known as _____
Gregorian chant
the trouvere was
a performer of secular music
“This world… was created by no god or man; it was, it is, and it always will be an undying fire which kindles and exintinguishes itself in the regular
author was:
heraclitus
in the early medieval period, irvory carvings were often used for _____
book covers
a puzzling experession found on the faces of figures from the Greek Archaic period is called ______
an ‘archaic smile’
the most significant architectural feature of the hagia sophia si ______
the dome on pendentives
the sculpture known as kritios boy is renowned for representing _____
the turning point from the archaic to the classical period
The apollo of beii is an example of
statuary
romanesque architecture saw a marked increase in the use of
exterior sculptures
the laocoon group is an exmaple of
freestanding hellenistic art
in the hagia sophia, the light entering the church symbolically represents ______
divine wisdom
thales of miletus beleived that the world
had its origins in water
the medieval epic poem that celebrates a battle between the franksih army and a muslim force at the spanish border is
song of roland
the work of a famous greek sculptor that combines realistic action with an idealized geometry (i.e, two intersecting arcis is)
discobolus by Myron
in the medieval architecture, the “tympanum” is another name for ___
a space over a door
a work produced by a great greek sculptor in which th eartist meant to illustrate the precise mathematical formula for the ideal male form is titled
doryphorus
the stoics believed that
the world is governed by reason
the playing out of a biblical scene in the liturgy of the medieval church led directly to the ________
beginning of western drama
we know about the persian wars from an account written by
herodotus
the five movements of th emass ordinary are the kyrie gloria credo _____ and agnus dei
sanctus
Hubris is ______
excessive ambition
“I tell about war and the hero who first from Troy’s frontier, displaced by destiny, came to the lavinian shores
quoted from
Virigl’s Aeneid
the mosaics at Ravenna
illustrate the beliefs of the worhsippers, emphasize the promise of salvation, teach illiterate believers, are often symbolic (all of the above)
euripides was known for his plays about
strong female characters pushed to their limits
a plainchant setting that has many notes for each syllabel is best described as ______
melismatic
the earliest significant prose writer in western civilization was
herodotus
the period of the patriarchs, the period of the conquest and the united monarchy are part of the history of the ______
hebrews
be praised my lord for brother fire, who lights up the night He is beautiful and carefree, robus and fierce
quoted by
saint francis of assissi
pythagoras was a _____
philosopher and mathematician
the trivium and the quadrivium were
the basic areas of study in the medieval period
when Oedipus declares, “none there is among you as I” it is an example of the technique of
dramatic irony
early christians were often buried in underground cemeteries called ______
catacombs
the roman emperor _______ established a capital for the easter roman empire at byzantium
Constantine
the feeling of emotional cleansing experienced by the audience in ancient greek dramas was called
catharsis
music that consists of only a single melodic line is called _____
monophonic
of the orders of column capitals in classical architecture, the simplest is
Doric
the prescribed form of worship in the Christian church is known as the _____
liturgy
a philosopher, Aristotle was the great ______
systematizer
separate, eight sided buildings near cathedrals or churches in Byzantine ear were commonly used for _____
baptistries
A leader of greece during the golden Age, connected with the great achievements of Athens at this time, was _______
pericles
the 12th-century mystic, musician, and nun whose visionary works include Scivias and a song sequence called Symphonia was ______
hildegard von Bingen
