Phase 2 CLAS301a

Question 1

Selections of Lyric Poetry

Answer 1

Themes: love, nature, human emotions, the divine, and inner thoughts and feeling of their reactions to the world around them

Key Features: first-person, emotional intensity, musical qualities, non-narrative and more focused on poet’s emotions and experiences

Question 2

Selections of Philosophical Poetry

Answer 2

Themes: questions related to the nature of reality, the cosmos, the gods, and the human condition

Key Features: Blends poetic expression with philosophical inquiry, metaphor and allegories to convey ideas

Question 3

Aeschylus’ “Persians”

Answer 3

Major Character: Atossa, Xerxes, Persian king, persian elders, ghost of King Darius

Plot: aftermath of the battle of Salamis, where the persian empire suffered a devastating defeat. The characters are depicted as grieving as they reflect on their defeat and why they lost

Themes: hubris, consequences of excessive pride, unpredictable fate, contrast of greek and Persian values

Question 4

Herodotus Histories

Answer 4

Major themes: origins of conflicts, customs, and cultures, along with cause of war, nature of different societies, the role of the divine intervention

Key Features: narrative work that combines historical accounts with anecdotal stories and ethnographic descriptions

Question 5

Histories book 1

Answer 5

Explains his purpose to preserve the memory of human achievements and explore the causes of the Greco-Persian Wars

Discusses the customs and history of various cultures throughout

Croesus of Lydia and his consultation of the Oracle

Solon you have to be dead to be great

Question 6

Hisotries book 2

Answer 6

Cambyses, son of Cyrus, and his conquest of Egypt

customs, geography, and history

nile river and flooding

rise and of a false Smerdis- twin

Persian preparations for invasion of Greece

Question 7

Histories Book 3

Answer 7

Scythians, nomadic people from the Eurasian steppe

conflicts with neighboring tribes

Scythian repel of Persian invasion

constitutional debat

Question 8

book 4

Answer 8

scythians- customs and burial

darius invasion

amazons

Question 9

Archilochus

Answer 9

7th century bce
pyros
satirical poetry
war/love/personal experiences

Question 10

Sappho

Answer 10

c. 7-6th century BCE
lesbos
love/desire/Aphrodite

Question 11

Semonides

Answer 11

7th century bce
samos
satirical
catalogue of women-animals

Question 12

thales

Answer 12

c. 624-546 BCE
miletus
seven sages/philosophy/ water as fundamental substance of the universe /influence on later philosophers/ eclipse/ rational inquiry

Question 13

Xenophanes

Answer 13

c. 570-475 bce
colophon
nonotheistic view of divine

Question 14

aeschylus

Answer 14

c. 525-456 bce
the persians

Question 15

herodotus

Answer 15

c. 484-425 bce
halicarnassus
“father of history”
foundation of historical writing

Question 16

elegiac

Answer 16

alternates between

dactylic hexameter: 6 metrical feet, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

dactylic pentameter: 5 metrical feet, same pattern

Question 17

lambic

Answer 17

iambs: one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

more natural

times per line: trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5)

dramatic and conversational

Question 18

logos/ making sense of the world

Answer 18

philosophy and how it contributed to the development of rational thought and natural explanations for the world

Question 19

literature after Homer

Answer 19

emergence of lyric poetry, tragedy, and historical writings as distinct genres