The histories herodotus - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

COM 312-EXAM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED Helen - answerHelen of Troy - blamed for the Trojan War, wife of Menelaus; mentioned in the Illiad; defended by Gorgias Herodotus - answerWrote "The Histories" - traveled the known world, wrote on politics and culture Heraclitus - answerWrote "Fragments", ascending/descending = the same, simultaneous contradictions; truth cannot be grasped; philosopher of "becoming" ("we are and we are not"); "You cannot step into the same ri...

HIEU 322 Midterm peoplePolybius - correct answer > Personal life: Born around 200 B.C.; Greek hostage taken to Rome in 167 B.C. > Great work: Histories, 40 books covering from 220-146 B.C.: the years of Rome's wars with Carthage First scientific history (tradition of Herodotus and Thucydides, Herodotus went to archives, talked to people who fought in the battles. Did not write with an agenda or dismiss people who were on the opposing side) > Why his history is good - Believed a me...

Historians: Herodotus: Herodotus is often credited as being the ‘father of history’. He was the first historian to attempt to explain events scientifically, without ascribing it to fate, chance or the gods. He was also the first to write down history for the sake of history and not entertainment, although his work was designed to be spoken, thus his work is more objective than other works at the time, such as Homer’s. Herodotus wrote about events that were still in living memory, so hi...

8th; Tiber - General Observations on the Ancient Romans: 1. Rome was founded in the ____ century B.C. along the _______ River in central Italy. Common Law; separation; art; toleration; oppression - General Observations on the Ancient Romans: The Romans made many unique contributions to the Western world including English ________ __________ via the Norman invasion of 1066, U.S. law, ___________ and division of powers, Folk traditions, _____, architecture, literature, Religious ________, and R...

Provide the name by which historians who study ancient civilizations refer to the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: - Answer-Mesopotamia What historians conventionally consider the principal, and one of the earliest, collection of laws in the ancient Near East was named for an old Babylonian King. Name him - Answer-Hammurabi One of the finest examples of ancient literature centers on a king of Uruk who, confronting the death of his friend Enkidu and the inevitability of his own ...

CLA 10 Final with correct questions and answers. Thetis - correct answers.-husband: Peleus -marriage --> strife between goddesses and judgement of Paris -son: achilles -father: nereid (sea god) -prophecy that her son would be more powerful than his father -makes all but achilles heel invulnerable Judgement of Paris - correct answers.-event that leads to the Trojan War -Eris ("strife") throws an apple inscribed "for the fairest" into the crowd at Peleus' and ...

GEOG 220 NOTES THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT -PLACE SPACE AND IDENTITY (CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY) COMPLETE 2023 STUDY REVIEW SOLUTION GEOG 220 The human environment: Place, Space, and Identity The evolution of human geography: Part 1 THE BEGGININGS Geography definition: - An interest in knowing where we are - An interest describing the characteristic of our world - A knowledge of who/what lies beyond our world...

homer correct answers wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey herodotus correct answers wrote "histories" about the greco-persian war thucydides correct answers wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War xenophon correct answers wrote Cyropaideia (The Education of Cyrus) polybius correct answers wrote the histories (the rise of rome) Demosthenes correct answers wrote Philippics Cicero correct answers wrote orations, letters, and essays (philosophical, rhetorical, and political) S...

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Helen - Helen of Troy - blamed for the Trojan War, wife of Menelaus; mentioned in the Illiad; defended by Gorgias Herodotus - Wrote "The Histories" - traveled the known world, wrote on politics and culture Heraclitus - Wrote "Fragments", ascending/descending = the same, simultaneous contradictions; truth cannot be grasped; philosopher of "becoming" ("we are and we are not"); "You cannot step into the same river twice" "All entities move, nothing remains still...you cannot step tw...