Quotes

Question 1

Plutarch quote ToA

Answer 1

sweet smelling gasses

Question 2

Herodotus quote ToA

Answer 2

the shrines of gods and the sacrifices we have in common

Question 3

Herodotus quote Herodotus

Answer 3

a golden three-legged tripod

Question 4

The Histories 8.39, CS

Answer 4

… the native heroes Phylacus and Autonous, whose precincts are near the temple … Autonous’ near the Castalian spring

Question 5

de Boer, ToA

Answer 5

what we set out to do was simple: to see if there was any geological truth to the testimony of Plutarch and others

Question 6

Michael Scott Herodotus

Answer 6

firstly, to look at the aims and goals of Herodotus as a writer … the second thing with Herodotus is how he uses an oracle and an oracle story to (highlight) what people shouldn’t be doing

Question 7

Malinowski CS

Answer 7

religion is not born of speculation or reflection but rather out of the real tragedy of human life

Question 8

Talbot city-states

Answer 8

the (Greek) city-states of Aristotle’s day were divided between a propertied class and those who had no property

Question 9

Euripides

Answer 9

The Bacchae and Medea

Question 10

Bettany Hughes Sparta

Answer 10

for the Spartans, it wasn’t the walls or the magnificent public hearings that made them a city; it was their own ideals

Question 11

Aristotle

Answer 11

the male is by nature more expert at leading the female

Question 12

George Grote, mind

Answer 12

when i come to the lives of socrates and plato … conscious and confessed knowledge is a better state of mind

Question 13

pseudo-Xenophon and Aristotle

Answer 13

Constitution of the Athenians and the Athenian Constitution

Question 14

Plutarch speech

Answer 14

Funeral Oration

Question 15

the Histories 6.75

Answer 15

Sacred Grove

Question 16

Mentioned in passing

Answer 16

Thucydides, Polyaenus, Pausanias

Question 17

Ruchpaul, Herodotus

Answer 17

Herodotus’ account of Kleomenes has been unanimously described a unfavourable to the king by modern historians

Question 18

the Histories 9.10

Answer 18

helots outnumbered the Spartans 7 to 1

Question 19

Cawkwell helots

Answer 19

if he had any part in encouraging a helot revolt … he would not have been taken back to Sparta

Question 20

Ruchpaul madness

Answer 20

as with Kleomenes there is a suggestion of a madness being present at birth

Question 21

Cawkwell Spartan affairs

Answer 21

at all times, what Thucydides terms ‘secretiveness of the state’ prevents both understanding and knowledge of Spartan affairs