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