CSTU 101 CH. 3 ANCIENT GREECCE
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Popular Greek inventions - Correct Answers -The crane and dice.
Classical Ideal: Humanism - Correct Answers -Confidence in human power and
ingenuity.
Classical Ideal: Fatalism - Correct Answers -Humans' pride and ambition might bring
self destruction.
Minoan Culture - Correct Answers -Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice
and cultural creation.
Development of pottery.
Labyrinth and Minotaur.
Mycenaean Culture - Correct Answers -Warrior Civilization.
Central in Iliad and Odyssey.
Wealthy with palace-cities (network of states)
Poetry and Value: Epic - Correct Answers -Focused on the demonstration and
communal values and memory.
Key Features: Epic - Correct Answers -Epic invocation.
Thematic statement.
Divine Intervention/Negotiation.
Vast scope.
Homer - Correct Answers -Composes the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The Iliad - Correct Answers -Story of Achilles and the Siege of Troy.
Depicts the death of Hector and Greek funerary rites.
The Odyssey - Correct Answers -Journey of the Odysseus.
Poetry and Value: Lyric - Correct Answers -Individual emotions and reflections.
Composed in 1st person.
Accompanied by musical performance.
Consistent metrical development.
, Sappho - Correct Answers -From the Island of Lesbos.
Most work in highly fragmentary form.
Subjects often about loss, love, or longing.
Religious Values: Polytheistic - Correct Answers -Localized and Variable.
Religious Values: Anthropomorphic (human like characteristics) - Correct Answers -
Emphasized fallibility (vice).
Familial conflict.
Divine wrath and anger common.
Gods also subject to fate.
Tartarus - Correct Answers -Place of torment.
Elysium - Correct Answers -Place of leisure.
Oracle at Delphi - Correct Answers -Prophetess or Seer known as Pythia.
House of snakes.
Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Location of divine pilgrimage.
Golden Age: Age of Pericles - Correct Answers -Victories in the Persian War and
Peloponnesian War.
Leads to rise of Athens.
Late Classical Period - Correct Answers -Great philosophers of Athens.
Invention of Drama (comedy/tragedy).
Architecture: The Amphitheater - Correct Answers -Theatron designed with a stage
surrounded by tiers of seats arranged in a semicircle.
Featured both an orchestra and chorus.
Greek Theater - Correct Answers -First Developed in Athens.
Originally part of Dionysian worship.
Aristotelian Unities (3 Principles of a Drama) - Correct Answers -Place: Occurs in a
single place.
Time: Occurs within a single day.
Action: Lack of digression.
The Polis - Correct Answers -General translation is "city-state".
Philosophy and city: Euripides - Correct Answers -"first requisite to happiness is birth in
a great city".
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Popular Greek inventions - Correct Answers -The crane and dice.
Classical Ideal: Humanism - Correct Answers -Confidence in human power and
ingenuity.
Classical Ideal: Fatalism - Correct Answers -Humans' pride and ambition might bring
self destruction.
Minoan Culture - Correct Answers -Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice
and cultural creation.
Development of pottery.
Labyrinth and Minotaur.
Mycenaean Culture - Correct Answers -Warrior Civilization.
Central in Iliad and Odyssey.
Wealthy with palace-cities (network of states)
Poetry and Value: Epic - Correct Answers -Focused on the demonstration and
communal values and memory.
Key Features: Epic - Correct Answers -Epic invocation.
Thematic statement.
Divine Intervention/Negotiation.
Vast scope.
Homer - Correct Answers -Composes the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The Iliad - Correct Answers -Story of Achilles and the Siege of Troy.
Depicts the death of Hector and Greek funerary rites.
The Odyssey - Correct Answers -Journey of the Odysseus.
Poetry and Value: Lyric - Correct Answers -Individual emotions and reflections.
Composed in 1st person.
Accompanied by musical performance.
Consistent metrical development.
, Sappho - Correct Answers -From the Island of Lesbos.
Most work in highly fragmentary form.
Subjects often about loss, love, or longing.
Religious Values: Polytheistic - Correct Answers -Localized and Variable.
Religious Values: Anthropomorphic (human like characteristics) - Correct Answers -
Emphasized fallibility (vice).
Familial conflict.
Divine wrath and anger common.
Gods also subject to fate.
Tartarus - Correct Answers -Place of torment.
Elysium - Correct Answers -Place of leisure.
Oracle at Delphi - Correct Answers -Prophetess or Seer known as Pythia.
House of snakes.
Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Location of divine pilgrimage.
Golden Age: Age of Pericles - Correct Answers -Victories in the Persian War and
Peloponnesian War.
Leads to rise of Athens.
Late Classical Period - Correct Answers -Great philosophers of Athens.
Invention of Drama (comedy/tragedy).
Architecture: The Amphitheater - Correct Answers -Theatron designed with a stage
surrounded by tiers of seats arranged in a semicircle.
Featured both an orchestra and chorus.
Greek Theater - Correct Answers -First Developed in Athens.
Originally part of Dionysian worship.
Aristotelian Unities (3 Principles of a Drama) - Correct Answers -Place: Occurs in a
single place.
Time: Occurs within a single day.
Action: Lack of digression.
The Polis - Correct Answers -General translation is "city-state".
Philosophy and city: Euripides - Correct Answers -"first requisite to happiness is birth in
a great city".
