Humanities Ch. 1,2,and 3 Quiz
According to Aristotle, what caused the downfall of tragic heros?
A character flaw or misscalculation.
What is a mode in Greek music
A distinct scale type
What do archeologists believe the Venus of Willendorf depicts?
A female fertillity figure
What was the subject of the Canon by Polyclitus?
A mathmatical formula for human proportiona in visual arts.
What story was told by the Lacoon sculpture?
A priest and his sons being strangled y sea serpents
Who was the firt important Athenian tragic dramatist(author of the Oresteia trilogy)
Aeschylus
Which play by Sophocles portrays the traumas and anxiety soldiers experience during war?
Ajax
The military leader who conquered Persia and Egypt during the Late Classical period was named _____
Alexander
where were the centers of Greek art and learning in the Hellenistic Period?
Alexandria, Pergamum, and Antioch
The term "Iconic" refers to which of the following?
And architectural order
Who became the most important diety during the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
Anton
What are two Semitic languages?
Arabic and Hebrew
What are two semitic languages?
Arabic and Hebrew
Who was the greatest Greek author of comedic plays?
Aristophanes
Who introduces the idea of catharsis in his analysis of drama(tragedy)
Aristotle
Who was an Assyrian king of ancient Mesopotamia?
Ashurbanipal
Which of the following was an outcome of the Peloponnesian War?
Athens was no longer the most powerful city-state.
What accounts for the powerful positions of Atherns during the first half of the Classical period?
Athens' decisive role in the defeat of the Persians
What was the cause of the Peloponnesian War?
Athens's use of the Delian League's treasury
What is the term for a double-reed musical instrument?
Aulos
Which civilization succeeded in uniting Mesopotamia in about 1800 B.C.E?
Babylonians
Who was ruling the council of the Athenian democracy?
Boule
What is the term for a female statue used as a column ti support a roof?
Caryatid
Which of the following statements about early Greek Religion is NOT true?
Deities typically had the physical features of animals.
A choral hymn sung during a tragedy in honor of Dionysus is called a _______
Dithramb
What was the first great literary work of ancient Meopotamia?
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Greek term meaning "character" ___________ was used to describe the ability of eachmusical mode to affect human behvior in a specific way.
Ethos
Which was a river is Mesopotamia?
Euphrates
Which was a river in mesopotamia?
Euprates
The term hubris refers to which of the following?
Excessive pride, arrogance
In Greek mythology, who is the king of the underworld?
Hades
Which of the following statements about the philosopher Pythagoras is true?
He believed that mathmatics could be used to explain all things in the universe.
Which dualist philosopher believed that our world was subject to constant change and stated, "It is not possible to step into the same river twice"?
Heraclitus
Who was the first great Greek historian(the "Father of History")?
Herodotus
Who was the earliest great architect to appear in historical record?
Imhotep
How have the modern scholars typically divided the history of Ancient Egypt?
Into four major periods
How have modern scholars typically divided the history of Ancient Egypt?
Into four major periods.
How did Greek religion differ from Judaism and Christianity?
It was polytheistic.
Which Egyptian Pharaoh built the Great Sphinxs?
Kahfre
The center of Minoan civilization was:
Knossos
Where are some of the oldest paintings of human kind found?
Lascaux
The vertical shafts running down through Minoan Palaces are called:
Light wells
What two opposing characteristics were represented by Apollo and Dionysus, respectively?
Logic vs. emotion
In Greek music, what was the doctrine of ethos?
Music can influence human behavior
What role did mythology serve in the lives of the Greeks?
Mythology was understood to help humans understand their own lives.
what role did mythology pserve in the lives of the Greeks?
Mythology was understood to help humans understand their own lives.
What was sumerian religion based upon?
Natural phenomena
What kinds of information does painted pottery NOT provide about early Greek culture?
Passage of text from authors such as Homer or Sappho
Which politial leader is most associated with the achievements of the Athenian Golden Age?
Pericles
What is lyric verse?
Poetry which conveys personal feelings
Late Classical sulpture was characterized by which of the following?
Realistic depictions of the human body
What artifacts from Jericho are concidered an indication that they preacticed ancestor worship?
Restored skulls
Who was the first woman to leave a literary record of her personal feelings?
Sappho
What is the term for the lighthearted play that followed a trilogy of tragedies in the festival of Dionysus?
Satyr play
According to legend who dictated to King Hammurabi the laws that he would later include in the Law Code of Hammurabi?
Shamash
Who discovered the civilization that predated the Mycenaeans?
Sir Arthor Evans
What events do Plato's works the Apology, the Crito, and Phaedo record?
Socrates' final days
What is the term for the philosophers-teachers who traveled around Greece, offering lessons in reasoning and rhetoric?
Sophists
Who was the author of Antigone and Oedipus the King
Sophocles
An upright stone slab decorated with relief carvings:
Stele
which philosopher, sometimes called the first western philosopher, believed that all change in the world was caused by war?
Thales
The comedic dramatist Aristophanes wrote which of the following?
The Birds
The period in Greek history after the persian war and before Alexander the Great?
The Classical Period
Where did the Sumerians first settle?
The Fertile Crescent
What is the earliest known example of Greek epic poetry
The Illiad
What is the earliest known example of Greek epic poetry?
The Illiad
What school did Aristotle found after breaking his ties with his mentor Plato?
The Lyceum
Who succeeded the Minoans
The Mycenaeans
Into which empire were the Hellenistic cities absorbed?
The Roman Empire
Which war provided the background for Homer's Illiad and the Odessy?
The Trojan War
What is the subject of the Frieze on the Alter of Zeus at the Pergamon?
The battle of the gods and giants
By the 8th century BCE what had become the principal subject of Greek art?
The human body
What does Plato illustrate in his Allegory of the Cave?
The limits of human sense perception
What did a smile on the face of an archaic period sculpture signify?
The subject was a living human being
Who was the central diety in minoan religion?
There is not enough evidence to know
Which greek god represented supremem god?
There was no god that represented supreme god
Who was the main character in euripides's tragedy The Suppliant Woman?
Theseus
What impact did the tyrant rules have on Greek society?
They supported the arts.
What was the primary function of the chorus in Sophocles' plays?
To provide a commentary upon the events of the plot.
WHat important archeologial discovery was made in the late 1920's?
Tomb of Tutankhamen
What city was buried beneath the Roman city of Ilium?
Troy
What is the term "blood for blood"
Vendetta
An example of Sumerian archecture used for religion practices:
Ziggurat
A tetrachord is:
a grouping of four pitches
What is the "meander" found on Greek Geometric Pottery?
a maze-like design
What does the term "polis" refer to?
a self-governing city-state
During the Neolithic period, a major developement in agriculture was the ability to:
accumulate and store grain
In general terms, what is most striking about the long history of Egyptian culture?
its unity and consistency
What greek epic poem recounts the story of Achilles and the Trojan War?
the Illiad
