west chap 3

The Delian League ensured that its members were protected from Persian attack but aroused the anger of many of its smaller members because Athens

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What does "the Socratic method" refer to?

A manner of teaching that features relentless questioning

Which of the following was one of the educational traditions of Golden Age Athens?

A mentor-protégé relationship whereby a male adolescent would learn from an older man by accompanying him in the course of his public functions, athletic exercises, and social interactions

Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) portrayed women seizing the initiative and acting aggressively against men in order to

end the Peloponnesian War and restore ordinary life

Socrates was the first philosopher in ancient Greece to

make ethics and morality the main focus of his teachings.

Greeks in search of a personal religion that addressed both life on earth and the afterlife joined

mystery cults such as the cult of Demeter

Important discussions about politics, philosophy, and social matters often took place at drinking parties for upper-class Greek men called

symposia.

Athens's wealth during the Golden Age largely derived from

taxes on trade and Delian League dues.

How did the fifth-century Sophist Protagoras offend many Athenians?

He insisted that absolute truth did not exist because every issue had two irreconcilable sides.

Which Athenian dramatist satirized the Sophists for making "the weaker argument the stronger"?

NOTTT Sophocles

What did initiates into Greek mystery cults generally hope to obtain?

Secret knowledge and divine protection

What did the Athenians do that so enraged the Persian king Darius I?

The Athenians aided the Greek Ionian city-states in their uprising against their Persian overlords.

Why do historians consider the Greek victory over the far more numerous Persians during the great Persian invasion of 480-479 B.C.E. to have been truly remarkable?

The Greeks so valued their political freedom that they joined forces to preserve it.

What farsighted leader convinced the Athenians to invest their resources of precious metals in the navy and later led Athens during the great Persian invasion of Greece?

Themistocles

In Greek tragedies, leading characters, usually the high and mighty, suffered a reversal of fortune because of hubris, a Greek term for

violent arrogance