Deck 5: Golden Age Athens and the Hellenic World: The School of Hellas

Question 1

Socrates was brought to trial and condemned to death for

A)subversive behavior,impiety,and the corruption of Athens' youth.
B)engaging in homoerotic relationships with a politician.
C)speaking out against Athens' democratic system.
D)slandering the Sophists,and criticizing Pericles.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Why were the Athenian citizens endowed with so much leisure time?

A)They imported their food,so they had no need to work the fields.
B)Revenue from the Delian League supported them.
C)Their humble living circumstances required minimal upkeep.
D)Slaves outnumbered Athenian citizens more than two to one.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Doryphoros,or Spear Bearer was famous throughout the ancient world for its

A)use of the contrapposto stance.
B)deviation from Egyptian art.
C)demonstration of the sculptor's treatise on proportion.
D)use of nudity in the representation of the male body.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following statements is true about Plato's idealistic Republic?

A)Men only would inhabit the city.
B)Citizens would be required to live in caves.
C)The arts would be banned.
D)Wine would be outlawed.

Question 5

The Sophists differed from the pre-Socratics in their focus on

A)the natural universe.
B)the actions of the gods.
C)the actions of human beings.
D)the basis of reality.

Question 6

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

A)virtuous behavior.
B)humanism.
C)philosophical wisdom.
D)teaching.

Question 7

Why does Pericles claim in his funeral speech that Athens is "the school of Hellas"?

A)Athenians were the most educated of all the Greeks.
B)Athens boasted more philosophers as citizens.
C)Pericles established schools for all the Athenians.
D)Athens taught all of Greece by its example.

Question 8

The Parthenon's 40-foot ivory-and-gold statue of Athena was intended to represent

A)the Delian League's wealth.
B)the cult of the body.
C)Pericles's mistress,Aspasia.
D)Athens's political power.

Question 9

A common theme of many Greek tragedies is

A)the untimely death of a young protagonist.
B)conflict between an individual and the community.
C)treachery and murder among the upper class.
D)the threat of disguised foreigners to a city.

Question 10

The primary duty of women in Athenian society was to

A)maintain their husbands' businesses in the agora.
B)preside over their husbands' social activities.
C)produce male offspring for their husbands' households.
D)educate their children in reading and writing.

Question 11

Why did fifth-century BCE Greeks NOT see themselves as at the mercy of the gods?

A)They viewed their gods as benevolent,incapable of harming humans.
B)They believed natural forces were knowable,not punishment from a god.
C)They considered their fates to be of little interest to the gods.
D)They ceased to believe in the gods following the Persian War.

Question 12

Socrates and Plato share the notion that

A)each individual defines his own reality.
B)humans are capable of remembering the psyche's pure state.
C)man is the measure of all things.
D)all humans can become akin to the gods.

Question 13

Pericles commissioned the building of the Parthenon to

A)give thanks to Athena for Athens's salvation in the Persian Wars.
B)construct a treasury for the Delian League's funds.
C)provide employment for Athens's stonemasons and sculptors.
D)create a palace for himself that would rival the Persian Darius's.

Question 14

The development of contrapposto,or weight-shift,as in the Kritios Boy,seems to have been motivated by a desire to

A)dramatize the stories narrated in the decorative programs of temples and sanctuaries.
B)overturn the dictates of The Canon.
C)create a sculptural equivalent to entasis in architecture.
D)closely echo the writings of both Plato and Hippocrates.

Question 15

The chief occupation of typical Athenian citizens was

A)military service.
B)farming in the fields outside the polis.
C)work in one of the building trades.
D)the exercise of political duties.

Question 16

A komos,from which the word comedy is derived,is a

A)goat song.
B)drinking party.
C)phallic dance.
D)viewing space.

Question 17

The Greek word eudaimonia refers to

A)knowledge of the past.
B)success in athletics.
C)the good or flourishing life.
D)balance in all things.

Question 18

Drama was originally associated with the cult of

A)Mithras.
B)Isis.
C)Cybele.
D)Dionysus.

Question 19

Athens's Golden Age began and ended,respectively,with

A)victory over the Persians and defeat by Sparta.
B)the rise of Cleisthenes and the death of Pericles.
C)victory over the Spartans and the death of Socrates.
D)the rise of Alexander the Great and the death of Cleopatra.

Question 20

Sophocles's Antigone opposes her uncle,Creon,because she believes that

A)burying her brother is her democratic right.
B)Creon has denied her rights because she is female.
C)Creon unrightfully banished her father,Oedipus.
D)Creon has seized her father's throne unlawfully.

Question 21

Discuss the change in sculpture from the rigid Archaic (see Chap.4)to the more natural Classical of Athens' Golden Age in terms of the latter's reflection of a higher mathematical order and emphasis on the ideal harmony between the natural world and the intellectual or spiritual realm.

Question 22

Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Knidos maybe the first Greek sculpture to

A)aspire to a physical ideal.
B)impart sexual allure to the human form.
C)represent a fully nude woman.
D)represent a god in human form.

Question 23

Consider the role drama-both comedy and tragedy-played in the Greeks' understanding and pursuit of eudaimonia,"the good or flourishing life."

Question 24

Compare and contrast the role,position,and views of Athenian women with those of Spartan women,connecting these roles,positions,and views with what you know about the two societies in general.

Question 25

Compare a Classical statue (Doryphoros)to a Hellenistic one (Apoxyomenos),focusing on form and effect.

Question 26

During Alexander's time there was a growing taste for representations of men and women

A)with a quality of symmetria.
B)in dreamy,contemplative moods.
C)posed with contrapposto.
D)at an imposing scale.

Question 27

Aristotle considered catharsis to be important to a tragedy because it

A)instigated change in the audience.
B)completed the plot.
C)caused the protagonist to seem realistic.
D)elicited intellectual responses from the audience.

Question 28

Explore the Hellenistic use of art as propaganda,using Lysippus's likeness of Alexander the Great and Epigonos's (?)Dying Gaul as primary examples.

Question 29

According to Aristotle,one might attain the "good life" by

A)studying the works of the great philosophers.
B)balancing action between extremes of behavior.
C)experimenting and formulating a hypothesis.
D)discovering the essence of an individual.

Question 30

Hellenistic sculpture can be equated with Aristotle's idea of catharsis because both

A)portray brutal realism with characters.
B)require figures in tragic circumstances.
C)aim to elicit the viewer's emotional response.
D)involve subjects in high social positions.

Question 31

According to Aristotle,a person could come to know universal truths by

A)stripping away prejudice and historical conditioning.
B)studying the universal Forms of Justice,Beauty,and Love.
C)discovering how each individual human defines reality.
D)observing the material world itself,in which reality exists.

Question 32

Citing specifics,compare the primary concerns of the pre-Socratic philosophers to those of the Sophists,Socrates,Plato,and Aristotle.How are the two groups two sides of the same coin,and how did they together help to lay the groundwork for the Greeks' eudaimonia?

Question 33

Argue for or against Pericles's decision to rebuild Athens' Acropolis based upon his rationale and the funding source.

Question 34

Explore the relationship between Aristotle's Golden Mean and the Greek concepts of arête (see Chap.4)and eudaimonia.