The iliad - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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...

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...

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? Correct Answer: Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? Correct Answer: Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? Correct Answer: Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? Correct Answer: The Parthenon

Nostradamus correct answers() -French -Physician and Reputed Seer -Published famous collections of prophecies -Credited for predicting: The Great Fire of London, Rise of Napoleon and Hitler, 9/11 and others. -Predicted a great comet, Nibiru, or rogue planet, Planet X, would impact the Mediterranean on December 21, 2012 (or June/July 1999), causing great destruction worldwide. Prediction Quiz: ( Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin correct answers(Jan 1869 - Dec 1916) -a Russian peasant, a tra...

What are the sources of Historical Information? - Primary and Secondary sources Stadion - -referred to 600 feet of measurement -Greeks had races called stadions -Called stadium now History - -can be interpreted differently throughout the years -Is the study of change, over time Ideas that have withstood the test of time: - -Great works of literature such as The Iliad and The Odyssey

connotation - correct answer an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. denotation - correct answer the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. part of speech - correct answer a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. In English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and inter...

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? - correct answer Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? - correct answer Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? - correct answer Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? - correct answer The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? - correct answer Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries. - correc...

PRAXIS II ENGLISH CONTENT KNOWLEDGE: MAJOR WORKS SYNOPSES WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% 2023 Piers Plowman Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland concerning the narrator's intense quest for a true Christian life. One of the early great works of English literature. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance and one of the better-known Arthurian stories. Sir Gawain, one of Arthur's knights, accepts the challenge of the myst...

Funeral Service Management I Question and answers correctly solved Funeral Service Management I: Cremation Stone Age, 3000 BC - correct answer According the the Cremation Association of North America, cremation began during the early __________________ around ______________________. 1000 BC, Early Iron Age - correct answer By _________________, the era of the ___________________, the practice of cremation was widespread from Ireland and Hungary. Symbolized refinement of the preciou...

Funeral Service Management I: CremationStone Age, 3000 BC - correct answer According the the Cremation Association of North America, cremation began during the early __________________ around ______________________. 1000 BC, Early Iron Age - correct answer By _________________, the era of the ___________________, the practice of cremation was widespread from Ireland and Hungary. Symbolized refinement of the precious essence of spirit, like smelting precious metals. - correct answer I...