Study Guide for the Third Exam

This exam will cover Chapter 4 and 5 and the reading selections from Aristotle, Epicurus, Vergil, and Apuleius.  Although you are responsible for all the material in the chapters, the exam will focus on what has been emphasized in class.   Please remember that there will be review questions dealing with earlier material.

1.       Study the maps from these three chapters.    In your studies, you should emphasize Macedonia, Egypt, the Italian peninsula, Gaul, Rome, Carthage, Ravenna, Constantinople, Antioch, Rhodes, Alexandria, Pergamum, and Jerusalem as well as the sites from the earlier chapters.
 

2.       Be prepared to identify images of the Pantheon, the Roman Forum, the Pont du Gard, the Colosseum, Maison Carree, Trajan's Victory Column, Arch of Titus, and the Altar of Zeus in Pergamum (reconstruction). Also be prepared to identify the following sculptures: Aphrodite of Melos, the Laocoon Group, the Dying Gaul, the Old Market Woman, the Patrician with Busts of Ancestors, and Augustus.
 

3.       Be prepared to identify the civilization during which representative works of art were produced.  This will include all the civilizations that we have studied.
 

4.       For each culture that we have discussed, review the major historical events.  (You do not have to worry about exact dates.)  For each culture, be sure that you understand the relationship between religious ideas and art and literature. 
 

5.       Be sure you can identify the following  people , characters, and gods: Philip, Alexander, Epicurus, Diogenes, Isis, Osirus,  Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Euclid, Archimedes, Julius Caesar, Octavian (Augustus Caesar), Plautus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Epictetus, Galen, Marcus Aurelius, Jupiter, Juno, Venus, Mars, Aeneas, and Dido.
 

6.       Be sure you know the cultural terms listed at the end of the chapters.
 

7.       As in the past, there will be some short answer questions mostly focusing on the primary source materials that were assigned.  In particular, be prepared for questions on Aristotle and Apuleius.

8.       There will be 10 points of extra credit on this exam.  These will be review questions on earlier material.

9.       The essay will be one of the following:

a    What values are implicit or explicit in The Golden Ass?  Offer an interesting  and appropriate comparison with one of the philosophers that we have studied.

b.  Is Aristotle a proponent of democracy?  Explain his reasoning for or against this form of government, and offer at least one developed criticism of his argumentation.  Be sure to address what democracy meant in the Greek context.

c.  The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, and the Aeneid are epic poems that were of great importance to the peoples of three different cultures.  Develop and defend a thesis that offers a comparison of some aspects of these epics and what they reveal about the self-conceptions of the societies that valued these epics. 

Author: Hollace Graff,
Oakton Community College
Updated: October 22, 2008