Humanities Final

Stele of Naramsin

Bull Leaping

Akhenaten and his family

Venus of Willendorf

Head of Akkadian man

Genesis, Chapter 6

But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark.

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet 11

Six days and seven nights came the wind and flood, the storm flattening the land

A Book of Going Forth by Day

I have accused no man falsely; therefore let nothing be done against me.

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet 6

Be you my husband and I will be your wife. I will have harnessed for you a chariot of lapis lazuli and gold.

Zend-Avesta

The soul enters the way made by TIme, and open both to the wicked and to the righteous.

The most important figures are larger than others

Hieratic scale

Means "young man"; a genre of ancient sculpture

Kouros

A descriptive phrase applied to a person or thing

Epithet

A pyramid temple structure

Ziggurat

A Greek city-state

Polis

Uruk

Gilgamesh is the king of this city

Paleolithic

This period began with the making of tools

Cuneiform

The first system of writing was _________

The Ten Commandments provide an ethical code

How do the Ten Commandments differ from Hammurabi's Code

symbolize the unification of lower and upper Egypt

In the Palette of Narmer, Narmer is portrayed wearing a different crown on each side of the palette to:

Blinding of Polyphemus

New York Kouros

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Altar of Zeus, eat frieze

Last Judgement of Hunefer

Euphronios, Death of Sarpedon

Laocoon and His Sons

Kritios Boy

She-Wolf

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos

Hesiod, Theogony

First of all the Void came into being, next broad-bosomed Earth, the solid and eternal home of all.

Homer, Odyssey, Book 9

It was our luck to come here; here we stand, beholden for your help or any gifts you give---as custom is to honor strangers.

Thucydides, Perikles' Funeral Orations

Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. We do not copy our neighbors, but are an example to them.

Homer, Odyssey, Book 4

Here, for instance, is what he did---had the cold nerve to do---inside the hollow horse, where we were waiting, picked men all of us, for the Trojan slaughter.

Plato, Allegory of the Cave

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

male virility and strength

In Minoan art, the bull is associated with

aid improvisation

Homer included formulaic epithets in his poems to

being the best one can be

The Greek concept of arete involves

akropolis

The citadel located in the Greek polis' center that served as the religious center was known as the

Ionic

Among the classical Greek architectural orders, the one topped by a scroll-like element is the

water

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

a city-state

The term "polis" means

the design of the labyrinth itself

From evidence discovered at the Palace of Minos at Knossos, the legend of the Minotaur can be interpreted through

pantheon of the Greek gods

Hesiod's Theogony details the

victory over the Persians and defeat by the Spartans

Athens' Golden Age began and ended, respectively, with

Athens taught all of Greece by its example

In his Funeral Speech, why does Perikles claim that Athens is "the schools of Hellas"

his refusal to flee after after being sentenced to death by a jury

Which of the following is generally held to reveal Socrates' commitment to the values of the polis

virtuous behavior

Socrates differed from the Sophists, most notably, in his emphasis on

the human mind

The Sophists differed from pre-Socratics in their focus on

conflict between an individual and the community

A common focus of many Greek tragedies is

Xenia

This Greek term refers to hospitality and the roles of guests and hosts.

a good or flourishing life

During the Golden Age of Athens, the term eudaimonia meant

catharsis

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

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

Who were the metics in Athenian culture

process of inquiry characterized by question and answer

The dialectical method is a

Second Temple of Jerusalem

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

Mihrab Niche

Arch of Titus

Pont du Gard

Bible, Matthew 6:25-33

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.

Virgil, Aeneid, Bk 4

And so, betrayer, you hoped to hide your wickedness, go sneaking out of my land without a word.

Cicero, On Duty

But it takes a brave and resolute spirit not to be disconcerted in times of difficulty or ruffled and thrown off one's feet.

"Tale of the Fisherman and the Genie"

At last I grew angry at being captive for so long, and I vowed that if anyone would release me I would kill him at once.

Augustine, City of God

Consequently, the earthly city glories in itself while the heavenly city glories in the Lord.

Patrician

Land owning aristocrats of Rome

Verism

A form of realism that reveals natural imperfections

Pietas

A virtue signifying respect to parents, nation, and the gods

Epicureanism

A philosophy intended, in part, to counter the fear of death

Stoicism

A philosophy characterized by rational detachment

Triumphal arch

Characterized by a simple barrel vault enclosed withing a rectangle

Evangelists

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the most prominent of these

Synopic

Refers to several New Testament books that tell the same stories

Parable

Short story that conveys a larger truth or religious principle

Typology

A way of interpretation that focuses on parallels between Old and New Testaments

Vulgate

A Latin translation of the Old Testament and New Testament

Muhammad

He received messages from God through the agency if Gabriel

Qur'an

Recitations that form the scriptures of Islam

Hadith

Sayings and anecdotes from the life of the founder of Islam

Sufism

Refers to a range of mysticism practices in the Islamic tradition

Limbourg Brother, February

Sutton Hoo purse cover

Botticelli, Primavera

Hildegard's Vision

Last Judgement tympanum

Dante and His Poems

Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere

Amiens cathedral

Giotto, Madonna Enthroned

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good Government

Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies

Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered ither women whose company I frequently kept.

Dante, Inferno, Canto 1

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

The Song of Roland

The pagans I have seen! Never has anyone seen more than these. Their vanguard shows a hundred thousand shields, their helms are strapped and their chain mail gleams.

Dante, Paradiso, Canto 33

I could feel my being turned... by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

Dante, Inferno, Canto 34

They were not feathers---their texture and their form were like a bat's wings---and he beat them so that three winds blew from him in one great storm.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

There are five ways in which one can prove there is a God.

Saint Francis, "Canticle of the Sun"

All praise be your, my Lord, through Sister Earth, our mother, who feeds us in her sovereignty and produces various fruits and colored flowers and herbs.

Marie de France, "The Werewolf"

Look at this marvel---this beast is humbling itself to me. It has the mind of a man, and it's begging me for mercy!

Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias

Indeed, from the age of girlhood, from the time that I was fifteen until the present, I had perceived in myself... a power of mysterious, secret, and marvelous visions of a miraculous sort.

Boccaccio, Decameron

The virulence of the plague was all the greater in that it was communicated by the sick to the well by contact.