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Test 4 - Review Session Flashcards

1
Q

where was official alphabet of Athens adopted from

A

Miletos

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2
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Where is the cup of Nestor from

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Pithekoussai

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3
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Where did Ptolemies make the new centre of greek world

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Alexandria

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4
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most famous female poet of Ancient Greece

A

Sappho

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5
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What is an Epic

A

expansion on the Iliad and Odyssey by other authors

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6
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what does philosphy mean

A

love of knowledge

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7
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Thales idea of primary principle of matter

A

water

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8
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Anaximander primary principle

A

Boundless (apeiron)

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9
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Anaximander astronomy

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celestial bodies describe full circles around the earth

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10
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Who does Xenophanes have an issue with and why

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Homer and Hesoid for attributing immoral behavious of man to the gods

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11
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what does Parmenides believe

A

Logic is the only tool to know the world, observation is unreliable

Likely he meant there is one single and unchanging reality that can be
understood with reason

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12
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What is Zeno known for

A

His paradoxes on impossibility of motion

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13
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word for indivisible

A

atomoi

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14
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who wrote the textbook on art of speaking

A

Teisias and Korax

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15
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What did Protagoras say

A

man is the measure of all things

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16
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nomos

A

custom, law, culture

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17
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phusis

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nature

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18
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arete

A

goodness

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19
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historia

A

research, inquiry

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20
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logographoi

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prose writers, compliers of genealogical, ethnographic and geographical material, also including mythical traditions

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21
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Who is considered the father of history

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Herodotus

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22
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what is herodotus interested in

A

human geography and customs of foreign people (relativistic approach to cultural difference)

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23
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who supervised great Dionysia

A

arkhon eponymous

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24
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what did tragic poets submit

A

3 tragedys and a satyr play

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25
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Deus ex Machina

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“god from the machine”: crane system used to lower statues of the gods in performances

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26
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what does the word tragedy come from

A

“song of goats”

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27
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what is the only surviving trilogy

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The Oresteia

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28
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Aiskhylos surviving work

A

the oresteia and the persians (a tragedy on the persian war)

29
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Plot of Oresteia

A

Osestes and Elektra avenge their father by killing their mother

30
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Plot of Antigone

A

Antigone breaks the law to bury her brother who is seen as a traitor

31
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Plot of Medeia

A

Takes revenge by murdering the children she had with Jason

32
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only complete surviving Satyr play

A

Cyclops by Euripides

33
Q

exodos

A

exit (end of a comedy)

34
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old comedy aspects

A

obscene language, reference to contemporary politics, addressing the audience

35
Q

Tekhne

A

word for art, ties to anything requiring skill

36
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Development of Athenian pottery

A

Protogeometric, geometric, black figure, red figure

37
Q

who is Kouros influence

A

likely Egyptian

38
Q

Where are Sappho and Alkalis from

A

island of Lesbos

39
Q

who is the mother of monsters

A

Ekhidna

40
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Who is Ekhidna

A

The mother of monsters

41
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what does Anaximenes think the primary principle is

A

Air (all elements are air at different densities)

42
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Herakleitos beleif

A

there is no single principle element. There are interchange of opposites that balance each other

Principle that regulates the cosmos is a rational Logos (‘word’)
that can be understood with rational thinking and inquiry.“You cannot step into the same river twice’

43
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Empedokles beleif

A

Everything produced by the mixing and
separation of four elements and moved by the opposing forces of Strife and Love, which
makes them separate and unite

44
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what does there have to be for atoms to move

A

void (space)

45
Q

what did Pythagoras do

A

Led a community who had to follow strict rules around moral and dietary restrictions

46
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What was early philosophy for

A

using logical reasoning to explain the natural world without supernatural causes

47
Q

persuasion

A

Peithos

48
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what sophist wrote empathetically about Peithos

A

Gorgias

49
Q

sophokles technical manual

A

tragedy

50
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Iktonos technical manual

A

building of the Parthenon

51
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Hippodamos technical manual

A

town planning and civil engineering.
invented city blocks and wrote best form of constitution

52
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Polykleitos technical manual

A

symmetry of the human body (Canon)

53
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What did Thucydides do

A

wrote on peloponnesian war and summarised Greek history from the origin of civilizations

54
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Thucydides method

A

question evidence, interview witnesses, dont rely on personal opinion

55
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why did Thucydides believe his work to be important

A

can be used to understand present and future

56
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what did Thucydides used to be

A

a general

57
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what were the new standards for Historians

A

focus on verifiable facts, no gods

58
Q

who is like a sponsor at drama competitions

A

the Khoregos

59
Q

whose primary principle was boundless

A

Anaximander

60
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whose primary principle was water

A

Thales

61
Q

whose primary principle is air

A

Anaximenes

62
Q

whose primary principle is logic

A

Parmenides

63
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god of the machine

A

deus ex machina

64
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who wrote Oresteia

A

Aiskhylos

65
Q

whose technical manual was on Tragedy

A

sophokles

66
Q

whose technical manual was on building the Parthenon

A

Iktonos

67
Q

whose technical manual was on town planning and civil engineering

A

Hippodamos

68
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whose technical manual was on the symmetry of the human body (canon)

A

Polykleitos

69
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word for art that ties to anything involving skill

A

Tekhne

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