Part 1 Exam 2

Question 1

Mothers are associated with mortality and are the chief mourner as seen with

Answer 1

Thetis and Achilles

Question 1

Women and dirt; death as polluting ____

Answer 1

miasma

Question 2

How do women act during ritual lamentation

Answer 2

They raise their arms, tear their hair, beat their breasts, and create lacerations while men are often more restrained to just outstretched hands

Question 3

Lekythoi

Answer 3

Offering of tomb scenes are depicted on funerary vases

Question 4

What were females identified with

Answer 4

the body, life cycle, and impurity

Question 5

T/F women were perceived to have a lack of emotional control

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What were most public venues for women’s authority associated with

Answer 6

religious activity

Question 7

Kanephoros

Answer 7

sacraficial procession

Question 8

Citizens, we will begin to say a few useful words for the polis. which makes sense, for it reared me in splendor. when I was seven years old straight away I was a ritual weaver for Athena. Then wearing a yellow gown, I played the bear at the rites of Brauron; and I once carried the basket as a beautiful girl, wearing a necklace of figs.

Answer 8

Chorus of older women in Lysistrata by Aristophanes’

Question 9

Priesthood was a _____ position

Answer 9

temporary

Question 10

What did priesthood result in for women

Answer 10

public authority; political influence

Question 11

Thesmophoria

Answer 11

State-sponsored women’s only festival

Question 12

T/F Thesmophoria was a subversion of social order

Answer 12

yes

Question 13

During Thesmophoria, all public business ceased and women were

Answer 13

appointed to oversee the festival

Question 14

What was Thesmophoria celebrating

Answer 14

Demeter and Persephone

Question 15

Lysistrata was the first

Answer 15

comic female protagonist

Question 16

Scene 1 Lysistrata: greek women were used as a ______ not of the polis

Answer 16

politics

Question 17

Lysistrata:
Were males suspicious of the Greek women’s activities when they were alone?

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

Lysistrata:
Who was the manliest of women

Answer 18

Lampito

Question 19

Lysistrata:
“Grab the brim, _______, you and all the others. someone repeat for all the rest of you the words I say– that way you’ll pledge your firm allegiance: no man, no husband, no lover….

Answer 19

Lampito

Question 20

Who responds to Lysistrata in Scene 1?

Answer 20

Calonice (her chief)

Question 21

…you get near me with a stiff prick. O ______, my knees are getting weak”

Answer 21

Lysistrata
Speaker: Calonice

Question 22

What is the main point of Lysistrata Scene 2

Answer 22

Gender conflict as a framing device, symbolizing the war between Athens and Sparta

Question 23

“Come on, _______, let’s hurry there as fast as we can go up to the city. We’ll see these logs down in a circle, stack them up so we keep them bottled up, those women who’ve combined to do this. then with our own hands, we’ll set alight a single fire and, as we all agreed in the vote we took, we’ll burn them all, beginning first with _______ wife.”

Answer 23

Philurgus

Lycon’s

Question 24

Fire and water represent what in Lysistrata

Answer 24

male and female elements in ancient medicine

Question 25

Who wins the battle of elements in Aristophanes Lysistrata?

Answer 25

women

Question 26

What is the main point of Scene 3 in Lysistrata

Answer 26

fighting choruses introduced a conflict between the magistrate and Lysistrata

Question 27

What does Scene 3 do?

Answer 27

challenge the Homeric adage that war is a man’s concern

Question 28

We men ourselves share in the blame for this. we teach our wives their free and easy lives, and so intrigues come flowering out from them. (who speaks and to whom?)

Answer 28

Magistrate to Lysistrata

Question 29

“you’d (who?) have been smacked if you had not been quiet and held your tongue”

Answer 29

Lysistrata; speak: magistrate

Question 30

So there I am at home, saying nothing. Then You’d (who?) tell us of another project, “how can you carry out a scheme like that?” It’s foolish. Immediately He’d frown and say to me (who?) “If you don’t spin your thread, you’ll get a major beating on your head. War is men’s concern”

Answer 30

Magristate; Lysistrata

Question 31

“and how will you (who?) find the power to stop so many violent disturbances?”

Answer 31

Lysistrata (speaker Magristate)

Question 32

What does Lysistrate compare winning the war to

Answer 32

making wool

Question 33

What happens during Scene 4 in Lysistrata

Answer 33

Women start to desert the acropolis using excuses

Question 34

“well then, I’ll (who?) leave here, when it seems all right. But now I’m under Oath.”

“At least lie down with me (who?) a little while”

Answer 34

Myrrhine
Cinesias

Question 35

“you’d like to? then, my little ______, lie down right here.”

You (who?) must be joking– in front of our dear baby child?

Answer 35

Myrrhine
Cinesias

Question 36

What does the quarrel between Magistrate and Lysistrata represent

Answer 36

the larger theme of the battle between sexes

Question 37

T/F Lysistrata proves the democracy is a fragile institution

Answer 37

yes

Question 38

When men harm the family, through war and injury, who must step in

Answer 38

women

Question 39

Explain how Greece is a closed society

Answer 39

earthborn idea
citizenship laws
anti-immigration

Question 40

Explain how Rome is an open society

Answer 40

Assimilation of other culture
religious tolerance
promotes immigration (dual citizenship)