Study Guide for the Second Quiz

The second quiz will be similar in format to the first quiz.  It will cover Chapters 3 and 4.  There will be five extra credit questions on the material from Chapters 1 and 2.  It will also cover the reading selections from Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Euripedes' The Trojan Women, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War.

  

  1. You will be shown images on the screen and asked identify the civilization within which works of art and architecture were produced.  Be able to identify Paleolithic, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Archaic Greek, Hellenic Greek, and Hellenistic Greek works.  You should be able to identify by name the following works of art and architecture: Parthenon, Erechtheum, Doryphoros, Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, The Laocoon Group, Aphrodite of Melos.

  2. Some questions may be taken directly from the review quizzes on the web site.

  3. Know these people and characters:
    Gods: Dionysus, Apollo, Athena, Zeus, Hera, Prometheus, Kronos
    Leaders: Pericles, Philip, Alexander
    Playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander
    Historians: Herodotus, Thucydides
    Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, Epicurus
    Architects and sculptors: Ictinus and Callicrates, Polykleitos, Praxiteles.
  1. Review the cultural terms at the end of  Chapter 3 and 4.  (You do not need to know all the terminology associated with the Greek temple, but you should know the meaning of column, entablature, pediment, cornice, and frieze.  You should also be able to distinguish Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns.)

  2. Study the maps on pages 56 and 90.  Know the locations of Greece, Macedonia, Rhodes, Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Byzantium/Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and the locations required on the first quiz as well.

  3. Be sure that you know the characters and plots of the assigned plays.  There will be some short answer questions about the plays.
     

 

Author: Hollace Graff
Oakton Community College
Updated: September 28, 2005