chapter 5 quizzes humanities

During the Golden Age of Athens, the term eudaimonia meant

a good or flourishing life.

What term did Athenians use for non-Greek speaking people?

barbarians

ATHENS AS IT APPEARED IN THE LATE 5TH CENTURY BCE.
Given the primary responsibility of an Athenian citizen to the polis, which combination of sites among the city's dedicated structures would he frequent to exercise his role in the democracy?

the Pnyx and Agora

In what way was life similar for Athenian women and metics?

Neither segment of the population had citizenship

The subjects of Medea, Antigone, and Lysistrata illustrate

the tensions of women's place in Greek cultural life

Which of the following statements from Perikles' Funeral Speech reflects the obligation presumed by Athenians of a citizen to the democratic polis?

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character.

Often considered the first philosopher, Thales of Miletus argued that this was the primary substance of the universe.

water

Hippocrates is known for

being the "father of medicine."

What was Perikles' purpose in rebuilding the Akropolis?

to compete with Persepolis while paying tribute to Athena with a war memorial

MODEL OF THE ATHENA PARTHENOS, original by Pheidias, ca. 440 BCE. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
The description of this statue as literally being a "treasury" is based upon

the gold armor and dress.

The Greek word for philosophy, philosophia, means

love of wisdom

We know the philosophy of Socrates from the writings of

Plato

Sophocles declares in the Crito: "They cannot make a man either wise or foolish: they act wholly at random." Who or what is "they"?

the public

Plato's philosophy is described as a form of idealism because it

seeks the perfection of pure ideas

BANQUETING SCENE, panel from the Tomb of the Diver, Paestum, Italy, early 5th century BCE. Fresco. Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, Paestum.
As an illustration of Plato's Symposium, this scene would culminate in speeches about Eros, including a story told by the disruptive Alcibiades on the theme of

homoerotic desire

Rituals celebrating which god or goddess are associated with the origins of drama?

Dionysos

THEATER, Epidauros, early 3rd century BCE.
The central space of a Greek theater where the action of a play takes place is called the

orchestra

The function of the chorus in a Greek drama is to

comment upon the central actions of the play as the symbolic voice of the people

Greek "goat songs" are linked to the origins of

tragedy through the theme of regeneration.

In Sophocles' classic play, Haemon tries to reason with his father, Creon, regarding Antigone's fate:"Seest thou, beside the wintry torrent's course, how the trees that yield to it save every twig, while the stiff-necked perish root and branch? And even thus he who keeps the sheet of his sail taut, and never slackens it, upsets his boat, and finishes his voyage with keel uppermost."What "fatal" and tragic character flaw does Haemon's warning address?

hubris

Alexander the Great and his armies conquered lands as far as

India

Lysippos, APOXYOMENOS (THE SCRAPER), Roman copy of an original Greek bronze of ca. 350-325 BCE. Museo Pio Clementino, Vatican Museums, Vatican State. Marble, height 6'8".
Which features of this sculpture reveal a new approach to the Classical canon of Polykleitos?

the size of the head and width of the body

By Aristotle's definition, an emotional response to the plight of a play's characters leading to a sense of cleansing or purification of the soul is called

catharsis

Aristotle states in his Poetics that, "Those who employ spectacular means to create a sense not of the terrible but of the merely monstrous are strangers to the purpose of tragedy." What is that purpose?

It is to create a specific sense of pity and fear through the witnessing of actions, not just spectacle for the sake of extreme emotions

YOUTH FROM HAWARA, from Egypt, ca. 100 BCE. Encaustic on wood, height of entire coffin, 52". © The Trustees of the British Museum.
This object is a particularly significant record of

Hellenistic portrait painting and encaustic preservation

Who were the metics in Athenian culture?

freemen from outside of Athens who were not citizens of the polis

According to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, the essential purpose of the polis was to promote

eudaimonia, the good or flourishing life

When the principal character of Medea proclaims, "I would very much rather stand / Three times in front of battle than bear one child," her perspective matches the life lived by

Spartan women

The Canon by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos is a treatise on

human proportion

ERECHTHEION, Akropolis, Athens, 430s-405 BCE.
Which element of the Erechtheion expresses a symbolic connection to a vital segment of the polis?

the caryatids

YOUNG MEN ON HORSEBACK, segment of the north frieze of the Parthenon, ca. 440 BCE. Marble, height 41". © The Trustees of the British Museum.

a portion of a civic festival

The Golden Age of Athens ended with the

death of Socrates

The dialectical method is a

process of inquiry characterized by question and answer

Which of the following questions would be posed by a pre-Socratic philosopher rather than a follower of the Sophists or later traditions?

Is there an essential truth beyond reality?

Attributed to the Amasis Painter, SATYRS MAKING WINE, detail of Athenian black-figure amphora, ca. 540-530 BCE. Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Würzburg.
The figures and activity depicted in this scene illustrate a connection between

the rites of Dionysos and the development of farce

In Sophocles' play Antigone, Creon opposes Antigone because she wishes to

bury her brother against his decree

Sets of four plays are called

tetralogies

ALEXANDER THE GREAT, head from a Pergamene copy (ca. 200 BCE) of a statue, possibly after a 4th-century BCE original by Lysippos. Marble, height 16 1/8". Archaeological Museum, Istanbul.
Which statement is true regarding this portrait of Alexander?

It is a work of propaganda

Epigonos (?), GAUL, Roman copy of an original bronze of ca. 220 BCE. Marble, height 83". Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
This sculpture is a representation of
This sculpture is a representation of

an enemy depicted in expressionist style

Which of the following marks the predominant cultural center of the Hellenistic world?

the Library at Alexandria