| Why were the Greeks faced with rebuilding Athens after 479 BCE? | The Persians had destroyed it |
| What events began and ended Athens’ Golden Age? | Victory over the Persians, defeat by Sparta |
| Why did the Athenians turn first to rebuilding the agora following the Persian War? | They needed a place to practice politics |
| Why were the Athenian citizens endowed with so much leisure time? | Slaves outnumbered Athenian citizens more than two to one |
| What was the primary duty of women in Athenian society? | To produce male offspring for their husbands’ households |
| Why in part did Sparta form its own Peloponnesian League? | Athens’ use of Delian Fund leagues to rebuild its acropolis |
| Why does Pericles claim in his funeral speech that Athens is “the school of Hellas”? | Athens taught all of Greece by its example |
| Why did fifth-century Greeks not see themselves as at the mercy of the gods? | They believed natural forces were knowable, not punishment from a god |
| How does the Kritios Boy define classical beauty? | He shows a lively posture and a sense of action |
| Why was Doryphoros, or Spear Bearer, famous throughout the ancient world? | It demonstrated Polyclitus’s treatise on proportion |
| Why was entasis, each column swelling about a third of the way up, employed in the Parthenon? | To fool the eye against them appearing narrower as they rise |
| Why today does the Parthenon lie mostly in ruins? | In 1687 the Venetians exploded gunpowder the Turks had stored in it |
| How did Socrates’ view of the good, true, and just disagree with that of the Sophists? | The meaning of these things was not relative |
| Why was Socrates brought to trail and condemned to death? | Subversive behavior, impiety and corruption of Athens’ youth |
| Why was Socrates not a staunch defender of democracy? | He believed that most people were incapable of exercising good government |
| Which of the following statements would be true about Plato’s idealistic Republic? | The arts would have been banned |
| With which cult was drama originally associated? | The cult of Dionysus |
| What is the central subject of most Greek tragedies? | Conflict between individual and his or her community |
| Why does Sophocles’ Antigone oppose her uncle, Creon? | She believes that burying her brother is her democratic right |
| What qualities define Hellenistic art? | Animation, drama, and psychological complexity |
| Why was Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos such a sensation? | She may be the first fully nude female in Greek sculpture |
| According to Aristotle, how could a person come to know universal truths? | By observing the material world itself in which reality exists |
| Why did Aristotle consider catharsis to be so important to a tragedy? | It instigated change in the audience |
| According to Aristotle, how might one attain the “good life”? | Balancing action between extremes of behavior |
| Why can Hellenistic sculpture be equated with Aristotle’s idea of catharsis? | Both aim to elicit viewer emotional response |
| Why can it be claimed in the chapter’s “Continuity and Change” section that even though Rome conquered Greece in 146 BCE, Greece “ruled” Rome culturally? | The Romans greatly admired and even copied Greek art |
HUM2210 Western Humanities:Ancient to Renaissance; Chapter 5 Quiz
February 16, 2020