Download STUDENT SELF ASSESSMENT OF PROGRESS Culture of Athens

STUDENT SELF ASSESSMENT OF PROGRESS
MODULE 1 : The Culture of Athens
As you revise this module, using the Revision booklet and past paper questions issued, check
your understanding of each of the different aspects to identify areas where you need to ask for
help, more information etc.
GREEN
I have a firm understanding of this topic and could confidently apply it
to an examination question.
AMBER
There are some aspects of this topic that I need to work on further before
I could confidently apply the relevant knowledge to an examination
question.
RED
I am having some difficulty grasping the relevant knowledge I need to be
able to confidently apply this knowledge to an examination question.
ASPECT
The changing intellectual climate in Athens
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Socrates
The sophists
Rhetoric
Sources: Aristophanes ‘Clouds’; Plato; Xenophon etc
Dramatic festivals and the theatre
 Festivals: the Great Dionysia and the Lenaia
 Greek theatre buildings, eg Theatre of Dionysos, Epidauros
 Themes of Greek plays: tragedy and comedy
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Examples of Greek plays: 2 tragedies + 2 comedies
Religious festivals and sanctuaries
 Religious festivals, eg The Great Panathenaia, the Eleusinian Mysteries etc
 Religious sanctuaries eg The Acropolis, Delphi, Olympia etc
 Ideas of Greek religion, the gods etc
 Sources: Pausanias, ‘Culture of Athens’
Art and architecture in their political and social contexts
 Greek architectural terms
 Principles of Greek architecture; temples etc
 Perikles’ building programme
 Sources: Pausanias, Plutarch etc
Athenian views of themselves and others
 Athenians and non-Athenians
 Citizens and non-citizens, eg metics
 Women and children
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Sources: Perikles’ Funeral Speech; Thucydides’ Mytilene debate &
Melian Dialogue etc
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