QUIZ #5 "Golden Age Athens & the Hellenic World" Saved

The "Golden Age" of Athens, from 479-404 BCE, a period of relative peace and unsurpassed cultural and human achievement, occurs between two series of long wars including the Peloponnesian Wars with Sparta and her allies that ended Athens reign. Name the wars that led to Athens rise in Ancient Greece?

The Persian Wars

The public or civic life of Athens revolved around the _________, an open place used for congregating or as a market place of goods or ideas.

agora

At its height during this period, Athens had a population of around 275,000 inhabitants. Of those 275,000 people, how many were actually considered "citizens"?

40,000

Name the greatest historian of antiquity, who is responsible for giving us the record of Pericles famous "Funeral Speech" or "Funeral Oration"?

Thucydides

Name the ancient Greek known as the "father of medicine" as well as of the "father of medical ethics" for that matter with his famous oath.

Hippocrates

Which of the following sculptures is NOT a good example of the contrapossto, or counterpoise, stance?

Anavysos Kouros

The sculpture of the Spear Bearer represents Polyclitus' classic canon of the principles of proportion and symmetry. In his system of proportion, the height of the head, from chin to crown, was what percentage of the height of the human body?

1/8 or one-eighth

Name the Greek order best represented in the architectural design of the Parthenon.

Doric

Which of the following structures on the Athenian acropolis features the Porch of Maidens, six caryatids serving as columns?

The Erechtheion

Name the leading Sophist best known for saying, "Man is the measure of all things."

Protagoras

For the philosopher Plato, what was the highest Form or Ideal from his "Allegory of the Cave"?

Goodness

Which of the following four playwrights is the only one to have any of his comedies survive to the modern day, including his most famous work Lysistrata about the women and Athens and Sparta withholding sex from their husbands until they sign a peace treaty:)

Aristophanes

Which of the following playwrights is the oldest of the three making him the "father of tragedy"?

Aeschylus

Name the Greek leader who marched over 11,000 miles to create the "largest empire the world had ever known" and whose audacity and sheer awe-inspiring power ushered in a new aesthetic standard.

Alexander the Great

Name the goddess portrayed in the sculpture believed to be the first fully nude depiction of a woman in Greek sculpture.

Aphrodite

This quote "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; Therefore, Socrates is mortal" from Aristotle is an example of what?

a syllogism

One of the most important ideas coming out of Aristotle's Poetics is his idea about great tragedy and its role in the "cleansing, purification, or purgation of the soul." This process is known as ___________________?

catharsis

Upon Alexander the Great's death, his empire was divided among his three chief generals into three successor states. Which if the following is NOT one of those three states?

Byzantium

A new center of Hellenistic culture, with a stature as a "new Athens", was founded as a treasury of sorts for the huge fortunes accumulated by Alexander's conquests. Name that new capital of Hellenistic culture, which boasted a library of over 200,000 Classical Athenian texts on parchment.

Pergamon

Name the city where Euclid formulated his theorems of plane and solid geometry, a city that had the largest library in the world at over 700,000 volumes, and the world's first museum.

Alexandria