Greek Unit 8+9

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What was Scipio Africans known for?

- Defeating Carthage in the 2nd Punic War at the battle of Zama in 202 BC - Sitting for long hours in the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus communing with the god

In Cicero's Dream of Scipio, what is the implied significan of having Africanus appear in dream

- He is like the funeral mask that Aemilianus remember seeing - a sort of imitation - He is a model of virtue for Aemilianus to imitate, an exemplum in the Roman theory - His presence is a kind proof that the soul lives on after death

Why does lucreitus write De rerum natura in(verse) poetry?

- He means to reference Empedocles' on nature from 400 yrs earlier - To suggest that the goal of life is to live by the standard of what brings pleasure - His doctrines are bitter and poetry is like the honey on the cup to help the wormwood god won

How does the Stoic conception of the 'Communit of men and gods' inform Cicero's Dream of Scipio

- It explains how we are to act in this life - It is the 2nd community the wise inhabit

What is Epicurus attitude toward conventional myth based religion

- It is all lie/made-up function - He does not believe anyone goes to Tartarus or Acheron

Why is athenian plague perhaps an appropriate way for Lucretius to end De rerum natura

- It proves that when pushed to extremely, men will reveal that they do not actually believe religious practice will save them or that their pagan gods are real - It proves that customs and shame and all other aspects of nomos are not necessary and not part of nature; and it part rays a death in nature of the civilization he just built, just as his beginning had portrayed how life comes at nature approach - He has merely shown the triumph of nature over convention to us without the honey-coating on the rim of the cup. It is the wormwood of his philosophy in all its striking reality

In Ciceros Dream of Scipio, how many planets and spheres are there altogether, and which is at the center of the universe

9,earth

Who was the birth father of Scipio Aemilianus

Aemilius Paulus, conqueror of Greece at the battle of Pydna 168 BC

Who is the father of the Peripatetics and where did they meet

Aristotle in the Lyceum

What is the swerve(clinamen) in Epicurean thought according to Lucretius

Atoms deviate from a straight line path by ones atom

In Cicero's Dream of Scipio, why is it so hard for scipio to live his life from the heavenly perspective Africanus commends to him

Because he reached the pinnacle of fame and power in Rome and enjoyed triumph

Why is Epicurus a hero to Lucretius in his De rerum natura

Because he rescued the state of man from oppression by the terror of death caused by religion

Why is Macrobius Commentary on the Dream of Scipio important to the history of the West

Because it became the main source of Platonism and influenced vergil, dante, michelangelo

In cicero's dream of scipio, why can't Aemilianus go to join his father right away

Because on this lfie we are stationed here by god, underguard or on guard

What is the hedonistic calculus in Epicurean philosophy

Deliberate according to what brings mast pleasure

What is ataraxia in Epicurean philosophy?

Deliberation according to what brings the most land pleasure

Which of the following was not one of Lucretius influences in writing De rerumnatura

Diogenes

In lucretius 'philosophical archeology', what did early man use to woo a woman he desired

Hazelnuts and Pears

Where did the Epicureans meet in anthens

In Epicurus gardens

Which of the following was not one of the things influenced by Epicurean philosophy

Michelangelo last judgement

In Cicero's dream of Scipio, what sound does earth make

None

In Cicero's dream of Scipio, what is the outermost planet known to the ancients, before the invention of the telescope

Saturn

What is the stoic concept of oikeiosis

That nature has adopted/appropriated us; that we are to assimilate our nature to the whole nature; that by growing in reason the human person fulfills its endowment

In Cicero's Dream of Scipio, what is the meaning of the harmony of the spheres

That the planets make musical sounds in fixed ratios by the differing speeds of their orbits

What is Epicurus' interpretation of Plato's idea of 'doing one's own work' from republic

That the wise man will tend his garden with friends

What is the Epicurean attitude toward laws and social compacts

That they should be based on utility and may be different as their usefulness applies or ceases to apply in different times and places

What does Epicurus say is the role of nature in meeting human needs

The natural needs of man are few and easily met, problem not getting what we need, but wanting more, pleasure never increases

What does Lucretius say happens to the soul and mind after death

They dissolve into atoms like the body

What is the highest good for the Stoics, which they associate with happiness

Virtue

What is the Cynic Diogenes alleged to have said to Alexander the Great when the latter asked whether he wanted anything

You are blocking my light


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