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CLA 3930,0016
Quiz # 4 –ANSWERS
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F'06, Dr. J. Turner
(take home, 20pts..)
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Due Tuesday. 12/5 BY 3:00 P.M. in Dr. Turner’s office, 138 Dauer Hall, NOT LATER!
1.(1/5 pt.ea.) True/False Put T or F in ea blank as is appropriate.
__T__In Athens, slaves granted their freedom became metics rather than citizens.
__T__ Much education was by rote & boys had to study Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey..
__T__slaves could earn money & buy their freedom
_F__Spartans worked alongside their slaves, as did the Athenians
__T_ Athenian resident aliens often were wealthy from business(es), but could not own land..
2.-3.(1/4 pt.ea) Fill in the blanks. In the Athenian social class structure many of the lowest,
landless "citizen" class had an occupation as 'rowers' (Grk=_thetes_) in the navy. "Noncitizen" classes included _metics__(= resident aliens) usually occupied in _business/trade__,
and a larger slave class ca. 25% of total pop. A male citizen's "public” life required
participation in the Jury & in the _ekklesia/Assembly_, & in religion. Most Greek houses
had a dining room for men's dinner parties known as (Gk word in pl.= _symposia_).
Athenian girls married in their teens to a groom usually ca.15 years older. Marriage betw/
_first/2nd_ cousins was common to protect family property. A bride had a __dowry_ wh/
had to be returned to her in cases of divorce. Athenian law required an _epiklēros_ (=a
"brotherless heiress") to marry her nearest male kinsman on her father's side of the family.
4.(1/5 pt ea.)True/False .Put T or F in appropriate blank.
_F__ sophists were travelling professors who received a good reputation bec. they could
teach how to argue either side of a disputed question.
__T__ "fast dog" was the school/gym for non-citizen boys in Athens
__T_At 2ndary school boys often acquired an older male 'mentor'/lover
__F_ Pausanias in the Symposium says Heavenly Aphrodite is best bec.it is love of the body.
__F_ In the Gortyn (Krete) law code (Spyridakis) the penalty for adultery was usually death.
5. (1/5pt.ea.) T/F (True/False) Put T or F, as is appropriate in each blank.
__T_ In Stoic philos., suicide was ok bec. it was the ultimate assertion of individual freedom.
_T_As a teen hostage @Thebes, Philip II learned how a small army can defeat a larger army.
_T_ In Plato, Apology, Sokrates says in his defense besides recent accusers he has old
accusers from when Aristophanes misportrayed him in the comic play, Clouds.
_F_In jail, Sokrates discussing death says that the pious go to a higher Earth above & are reunited w/their (re-constructed) bodies.
_T__ Vergina is the probable site of the tomb of Philip II of Macedonia.
6-7.(1/4 pt.ea.) The 2 charges against Sokrates were: “Impiety” & _corrupting the youth__,
but he was prosecuted mainly for _political_ reasons bec. of earlier ties to the _30 Tyrants_
(=group who briefly ruled Athens in 403 B.C.). Sokrates is imp. in Greek philosophy bec. his
teaching was a change to focus on _man/the individual__. For Post-Sokratics a main interest
was how man should __live/act___. Two of Sokrates' students whose writings provide
information about him were _Xenophon_ & Plato. Plato's student (=___Aristotle_ )
differed on the concept of "ideal forms" & in 335 B.C., began his own "school" named the
_Lykeion/Lyceum___.
8-9 (1/4 pt.ea.).Fill in the blanks. A school of philosophy wh/believed in "joy of a simple
life." was the _Cynic_ school. Its' most famous exemplar was _Diogenes_ who wore only a
barrel, drank from his hands. Zeno founded the _Stoic_ philosophy, which stressed "virtuous
living", happiness through living in accord with __Nature___--which is "the expression of
Divine Will." Epicureans believed (Grk word =__ataraxia___) is the chief good--wh/ they
defined as " _absence of pain_". The Skeptic philos. Founder (= _Pyrrho_ of Elis) wrote
nothing, but his pupil (= _Timon__) wrote about basic Skeptic questions.
10-12.(1/4 pt. ea. Blank) In Plato's Symposium, Aristophanes says originally there were 3
sexes =_male_ -from the Sun; _female__--from the Earth;&_androgynous (=male/female)_
--from the Moon. Zeus, fearing their power (did what?)_cut them in half__ . Therefore,
“True Love” = finding your _other half_ wh/ = your “Soul mate.”
Greek medicine was based on the idea of the body’s 4 _humors__.In late 5th c. B.C.,
__Hippokratēs__ founded the 1st known "teaching hospital" on island of _Kos/Cos_
where doctors were priests of the healing god named _Asklepios or Apollo_. The hospital's
body of medical writings known as the _Hippokratic Corpus_wasn't compiled until 3
centuries later (Hellenistic era) when famed researchers included :_Hierophilos__, who
invented medical terms such as retina, neuron, duodenum; & _ Erasistratos ____
who dissected brains & knew that the brain & spinal column controlled different nerves.
13-14. MATCHING l/5 pt. ea. Put letter of best answer in appropriate blank.
_J__ Sokrates' 'inner voice' wh/indicated something was wrong
A) Aegae
_I_believed that gods had no effect on human life & that
B) Eratosthenes
man should look inward, ignore the outside world
C) Aristarchos
_H__ "No knowledge is certain; therefore nothing matters"
D) Antiochos IV
_K__ his "Philippics" warned Athens of Philip II's ambition
E) Archimedes
_L__said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."
F) Isis
_D__ he (177-164B.C.) put Zeus’ statue in Jewish Temple in
G) Pella
Jerusalem & provoked uprising of Judas Maccabaeus
H) Skeptics
_C__credited w/"Helio-centric" view of the Universe
I) Epicurus
_A__ 1st capital & royal necropolis of the ancient Macedonians
J) daimōnion
_B__made fairly accurate estimate of Earth's circumference
K) Demosthenes
_F__ Imp. ex. of Hellenization of Egyptian religion
L) Sokratēs
15-17.(1/4 pt. ea.)Thebes ended Sparta's power in 371 B.C. at battle of _Leuktra/Leuctra_.
Two imp. Theban generals, Epaminondas & _Pelopidas__ used new tactics, giving Thebes
pwr until 362 B.C. at B. of _Mantinea_. The 3 most influential ppl in Alex. the Great's life
were: _his father Philip II_; his teacher -=_Aristotle_; & his mother =_Olympias_ who gave
him idea of his divine birth. Philip II’s victory @ at B. of _Charonaia_, 338 B.C, united
Greece. Before going to Persia, Alex. performed rites at the sacred city of _Dion_. Alex.
founded many cities, but most famed was Alexandria, Egypt -- esp. imp. for its' library/
research center named _Mouseion/Museum_ & begun by Ptolemy (I), one of Alex's
successors, whose dynasty ended in 30 B.C.E. with the suicide of _Kleopatra VII_. The
other 2 successors of Alex. were: _Antigonos I _ (Greece) & _Seleukos I_ (Asia/Syria).
18. (1/2 pt. ea.) Briefly, in a few sentences discuss: 1)how useful Philip of Macedon's
accomplishments were to Alexander;_Alex inherited from Philip what was necessary for
Alex to pursue his own goal of world conquest: 1) Philip II conquered & united Greece ;
2) Philip’s trained army & improved battle strategy; Philip’s ‘vision’--plans to invade
Persia; 4) Philip’s brilliance militarily.
& 2) discuss what you think was Alex. the Great's greatest achievement & explain why--His
conquests of Persia & Egypt—which then he ‘Hellenized’—spreading Greek civilization
to Asia & N. Africa, permanently changing course of world history._____(Other similar
answers possible. T.A.s should use own judgment when grading this question.)
19-20. Matching: (1/5 pt. ea.) Put letter of best answer in appropriate blank.
_L__lst involved Greece w/Roman Empire
A) Korinth
__I_Rome made it the "free port" instead of Rhodes,166B.C.
B) Odeion
__J__wrongly believed man’s intellect was seated in the heart
C) Ptolemy V
_A__Greek city Rome destroyed as "object lesson" l46 BC
D) Gandhara
_H__author of famous saying, “Eureka!” (= “I’ve found (it).”)
E) Polybios/Polybius
_G__ site of "breakaway" kingdom betw/ Bactria & Seleukid Asia
F) Pella
_B__ theater in center of Roman Athens' agora, gift of Agrippa
G) Parthia
_E__ Greek historian, Roman hostage@ Scipio's home, wrote
H) Archimedes
history to explain Romans' success to Greeks
I) Delos
__D_ art/sculpture style-legacy of Alex. & Greeks in India, origin of J) Aristotle
monumental Buddhist sculpture (Greek techniques, Indian motifs)
K) Thebes
_C_praised on Rosetta Stone for putting down a rebellion
L) 2nd Macedonian War
1 pt. E.C.: (1/2 pt. ea.)Transliterate into ancient Grk:
Alexandros__’Aλεξανδρος______; Hippocratēs _̀Ιπποκρατης__________