The iliad - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

CSTU 101 CH. 3 Ancient Greece Popular Greek inventions - correct answer The crane and dice. Classical Ideal: Humanism - correct answer Confidence in human power and ingenuity. Classical Ideal: Fatalism - correct answer Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction. Minoan Culture - correct answer Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation. Development of pottery. Labyrinth and Minotaur. Mycenaean Culture - correct answer Warrior Civiliz...

GACE History 34, 35 Latest Update with Certified Solutions fluvial civilizations Civilizations that arose in river valleys (Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc.) Fertile Crescent Cradle of civilization from the Persian Gulf to the Sinai Peninsula (coined by Egyptologist James Breasted) Mesopotamia The location of the first civilization, the Akkadians, led by Sargon Sumerians Mesopotamian civilization. Invented the wheel, developed irrigation, cuneiform. Code of Hammurabi Famous Babylonian...

A traditional pattern of action is a...? - Ritual Stories whose actors are ordinary people or animals...? - Folktale A story of the great deeds of humans, heroes, and heroines or the events of human past is a...? - Legend Traditional tales about gods and heroes is a...? - Myth A belief and the course of action that follows is...? - Religion Apollonius of Rhodes - Wrote the Argonautica about the quest for the golden fleece Homer - Wrote the Iliad of and the Odyssey about the Trojan War

CSTU 101 CH. 3 Ancient Greece Popular Greek inventions - correct answer The crane and dice. Classical Ideal: Humanism - correct answer Confidence in human power and ingenuity. Classical Ideal: Fatalism - correct answer Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction. Minoan Culture - correct answer Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation. Development of pottery. Labyrinth and Minotaur. Mycenaean Culture - correct answer Warrior Civiliz...

Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Civilization 1. During the Mycenaean civilization, who was the great poet and what were his two important literary works that influenced the Greeks and formed part of Western literature? Homer, Iliad and the Odyssey 2. In a period known as the Dark Ages from 1100 B.C. to 800 B.C., life reverted to simpler forms and people lived in relative isolation. 3. The period from the 9th to the 6th century B.C. is known as the Archaic Age 4. A typical Greek city-state would ...

What nationality was Virgil? correct answers -He was a Roman poet. -He was the best. What happened when Virgil was 11? correct answers -Julius Caesar ruled Gaul. -He was raised on a farm. -He travel to many cities, since he was studying to become a lawyer (he never pursued the career though). What did Antony do to Virgil? correct answers -Antony stripped Virgil and his family of many lands. -Anotony had to do this in order to reward his soldiers with land for fighting in the civil ...

Greek and Roman Imagination - ANSWERThere is imagination and no reality. Their imagination consists of several myths and magic. The Greeks believed in it, but the Romans did not. What is the importance of the Iliad? - ANSWERIt is the oldest of Greek literature. The Illiad has an indisputable proof of civilization. How do the Greeks compare to the Egyptians? - ANSWERThe Greeks made their own God's in their image, while the Egyptians didn't. what is the terrifying irrational? - ANSW...

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 All...

CLSC 101 Study Guide with Questions and Answers What type of literature, from what period of history, constitutes our earliest source of Greek myths? ANSWER Homer- early 7th Century Hesoid- end 8th century Iliad by Homer Odyssey by Homer Did the ancient Greeks base almost all of their tragic dramas on myth, or only some of them? ANSWER All ancient greek tragedies have told a myth (mythical versions of historical events) What was the Roman poet Ovid's largest and most influential w...

ARC Exam 4 Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Minoan Civilization - ANSWERSAn advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 B.C.E. invaded by the mycenaenas. Knossos, Crete - ANSWERSNorthern coast of Crete,several thousand people, craft specialization, Linear A Mycenaean Civilization - ANSWERSa greek civilization that took off where the Minoans left off (possibly conquered the Minoans), militaristic, expanded trade through sea raids, piracy, colonization - fought ...