Aristophanes Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

18 pages summary, has the history from Solon/Cleisthenes/Ephialtes/Pericles etc and also has the set sources for OCR: Aristophanes, Plato, Pseudo-Xenophon, Aeschylus, Euripides and Thucydides (analysis, quotes and summaries)

1. What is an aesthetic experience A feeling of pleasure that justifies itself 2. Which topic is studied by the humanities The cultures and beliefs thatmake up the experience of being human 3. Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature and scope of knowledge Epistemology 4. What is a clear example of the creation of aesthetic beauty in a humanities discipline a welder fabricates components for construction of a new high-rise building 5. Match each type of love with its definition.:...

Aristophanes' Frogs Summary, Quotes, and Modern/Secondary Scholarship

This is a line by line breakdown of Aristophanes' Frogs which are at an A* standard for the OCR A-level is classical civerlisation

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Aristophanes' the 'Wasps'

OCR 2023 Classical Civilisation H408/34: Democracy and the Athenians A Level Question Paper & Mark Scheme (Merged) 2 © OCR 2023 H408/34 Jun23 Section A Start your answer to each 10, 20 and 30 mark question on a new page. Source A 3 OCR 2023 H408/34 Jun23 Turn over 1 The character Paphlagon is based on a real Athenian politician. Give the name of this politician. [1] 2 Give two types of activity which went on in ‘the Agora’ (line 8) in Athens. [2] 3 Explain how in Source A ...

OCR 2023 Classical Civilisation H008/21: Greek theatre AS Level Question Paper & Mark Scheme (Merged) 3 Source B Sophocles’ Oedipus the King 408–431 4 Explain why Tiresias mentions that he serves Apollo (line 4). Make two points. [2] 5 Give the names of Oedipus’ mother and father (line 14). [2] 6 What is Cithaeron (line 20)? [1] 7 Give the name of one of Oedipus’ children (line 25). [1] 8 Explain how successfully Sophocles makes the scene in Source B an exciting piece of...

The Classical Period 500 BCE- 500 CE - Themes: balance, truth/reason, democracy/republic, polytheism, humanism Great thinkers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—engaged in pursuit of truth through logic and reason. Poetry: The Odyssey-Homer A Lament for Adonis-Sappho Theater: Oedipus Rex- Sophocles Aristophanes- Lysistrata Music: "First Delphic Hymn to Apollo" is the earliest surviving fragment of notated music from anywhere in the Western world. The Middle Ages - religion, deferenc...

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