The Histories// Herodotus UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Herodotus
The Histories// Herodotus UPDATED
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Classics - CORRECT ANSWER- Works of literature that are timeless and relevant to this
day
They are the backbone of our history
So we can analyze it ourselves - CORRECT ANSWER- Why do we study Classics?
The Histories// Herodotus UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Classics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Works of literature that are timeless and relevant to this
day
They are the backbone of our history
So we can analyze it ourselves - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Why do we study Classics?
Chronology, context, ideas, and people - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- What role does history
play in the study of the classics?
Heroism
Humility
Hubris
Man vs. God
East vs. West
Geography
Wit and Cleverness
Fate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Major themes in Herodotus
ca. 490 BC in Halicarnassus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- When and where was Herodotus
born?
Mediterranean world, Egypt, Africa, Black sea area, Greek city-states (mainlands and islands)
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Where Herodotus traveled
Upper class; Sophocles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- What class was he most likely in and
which playwright was he good friends with?
,The Athenian-led pan-Hellenic founding of Thurii in Italy in 443 BC - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- What founding did he assist in and when?
ca. 430-420 BC - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Death of Herodotus
Cicero - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who gave him his title: "Father of History"?
490 BC--->420 BC - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Approximately when Herodotus lived:
"history"------> Greek "historia"
meaning: inquiry, investigation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- From where does our word
"history" come and what did it originally mean?
Father of History/ Father of Lies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- By what 2 titles was Herodotus
know in the ancient world?
freedom and slavery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Herodotus saw the Persian Wars as a
conflict between____________________.
So human achievements shall not be forgotten and to show the fighting between two peoples
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Why does Herodotus say he compiled the Histories?
The capture of Troy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Learned Persians say this was the cause of
the quarrel with the Greeks:
Croesus of Lydia (first Croesus) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the first foreigner to come into
contact with the Greeks in the way of conquest and alliance
Croesus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lydian king renowned for his wealth
The king of Sardis and descendant of Heracles;
, He told his servant Gyges to see the queen naked - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Who was
Candaules and what led to his downfall and death?
Sardis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Capital of Lydia
Candaules - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lydian king who is blinded by his passions and
killed by his servant
Gyges - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lydian servant who takes the throne of his king
fifth - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- When the oracle at Delphi was consulted, she confirmed
Gyges' reign, but prophesied that the Heraclids would have revenge on Gyges in the
_________ generation.
Gyges (38 years), Ardys (49), Sadyattes (12), Adyattes (57), Croesus (14) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- List the generations of kings and their length of reign beginning with Gyges
and ending with Croesus
Because the Milesians commanded the sea - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Why did Alyattes
never destroy/ burn the houses of the Milesians/ besiege Miletus?
The wind drove the flames to Athena's temple;
He became ill - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- What went wrong with Alyattes' strategy of
burning the crops; what happened to him?
That she would tell Alyattes nothing of his health until he rebuilt the temple - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- What did the Priestess of Apollo at Delphi tell the messengers of Alyattes?
He took all the grain into the city and got a messenger to tell Alyattes of the amount of grain
seen out in the streets and the drinking of men - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- How did
Thrasybulus, tyrant of Miletus, take advantage of this situation?
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