C100 Humanities Final Study Guide

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? - Answer- Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? - Answer- Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? - Answer- Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? - Answer- The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? - Answer- Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries. - Answer- The Patheon Plato's Allgery in the Cave, what do the shadows represent? - Answer- Every Day Life Polytheism - Answer- Belief in Multiple Gods Ancient Greeks formed what kind of Government? - Answer- Democracy Classical Drama Consisted of ? - Answer- Tragedies, Comedies and Satyr Plays The Republic - Answer- Applied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live. Oedipus Rex - Answer- A story about a man who lives his life not knowing the truth about his parentige, his pride causes him to ignore humanity, resulting in blindness and exile. The Odyssey - Answer- Epic poem narrating the story of a greek hero who combined all the greatest virtues of greek culture as well as greek Pantheon gods. The Parthenon - Answer- Emphasized the themes of order and balance, as a temple to the goddess Athena. Lysistrata - Answer- A play about heroic women who with held sex from their husbands to end the war. Sappho's Lyric poem "Alament for Adonis" represents what major theme of the classical period? - Answer- Humanism (Classical)