Readings

Question 1

Socratic Method

Answer 1

Socrates method of educating ignorant people. How person can attain arete

Question 2

Allegory of the Cave

Answer 2

deeper concepts of truth and knowledge. Its a metaphor for a person who becomes a philosopher

Question 3

The Republic

Answer 3

talks about what would make an ideal state/government, which is education

Question 4

Nicomachaen Ethics

Answer 4

Everyone has a proper function knowing their place in life. Everyone wants to be happy and good in life and the way to do that is to have an education.

Question 5

Politics

Answer 5

Good government watches out for its people and provides public education to its people.

Question 6

Alexander the Great

Answer 6

Reasoned why Alexander should be considered a philosopher king because he had a good philosophy education.

Question 7

Roman Constitution

Answer 7

Believed in a mixed government combined with democracy, aristocracy and monarchy.

Question 8

Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Answer 8

Augustus/Octavious claimed he restored government and the people chose him to rule through votes.

Question 9

Aeneid

Answer 9

Greek version of the Iliad. Aneas goes to the underworld to find out the future of himself and future ancestors.

Question 10

Pliny’s Letters

Answer 10

Letters between Pliny and the emperor, Trajan. Pliny traveled to resolve outstanding social and financial issues.

Question 11

Roman Law

Answer 11

Shows roman conceptions of right and wrong, justice and injustice. Shows their financial laws, issues they thought they had and how it was dealt with. Social stratification, types of ranks, privileges and penalties. Gender norms in society, family structure, labor, protections, compensation, slaves/treatment of slaves and commerce.

Question 12

Genesis and Exodus

Answer 12

Explains how everything came to be. Also talks about the identity of the Hebrew people, and civic and religious laws and customs. Began with the creation and later added that Yahweh created the entire world alone.

Question 13

Gospels

Answer 13

Jesus’ life and teachings

Question 14

Paul’s Letters

Answer 14

Written by Paul and other Jesus’ followers which gives us insights into the earliest form of christianity.

Question 15

Jeremiah

Answer 15

One of the prophets which is the teaching of prophets who preached during the Kingdom period who preached morality and absolute monarchy. The teaching of the prophets would share the composition of the texts during the exile period