Humanities Exam 1

Sophoclesbest-known play which Aristotle used as his model in discussing the nature of tragedy.

What was the subject of the Canon by Polyclitus?

What is the subject of black-figure pottery?

What do archaeologist believe the Venus of Willendorf depicts?

This is the Roman author whose Aeneid is recognized as the Roman national epic

What was the first great literary work of ancient Mesopotamia

What Roman class was represented in the Senate?

Which political leader is most associated with the achievements of the Athenian Golden Age?

This Greek sculptur created Discobolus Discus Thrower an idealized portrayal of an athlete

What did Sumerian literature communicate regarding the meaning of life?

What school did Aristotle found in 335 B.C.E.

What was Sumerian writing invented for?

Who was the first emperor of the Roman Empire?

What building was built with Delian League money and a demonstration of reasons use of balance proportion and perspectiv

What does Egyptian art primarily communicate?

Whose assassination ended the Roman Republic?

Who was the first great Greek historian the Father of history thaat wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War?

Roman culture grew in strength by assimilating other cultural strengths.

Rome assimilated the Greek gods into their own religion?

What role did mythology serve in the lives of the Greeks?

In what intellectual/academic activity did Rome demonstrate originality?

The Classical ideal includes

In the Greeks war with Troy he was the Greeks greatest warrior whose argument with Agamemnon is subject of Homers Iliad

What sculpture is the embodiment of The Canon?

What Greco-Roman philosophy is associated with Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius?

The Sumerian who ruled Uruk about 2700 B.C.E. is the subject of an epic story that predates the Iliad and the Odyssey.

This is a type of standing male statue always shown nude

Where did the Sumerians first settle?

What was the polis?

The statue marks the turning point between the late Archaic world and the early Classical world

Who wrote the Allegory of the Cave?

The theatre was dedicated to which Olympian god?

What are the two main periods of Roman history called?

Romans did not allow older religions from other cultures to worship.

Which area of study did the Greek not pioneer?

What accounts for the powerful position of Athens during the first half of the Classical period?

How did the art of Akhenaton 1379-1362 B.C.E. differ from conventional Egyptian art?

In general terms what is most striking about Egyptian culture over the centuries?

Where are some of the oldest paintings in humankind found?

What development during the Neolithic period made possible the growth of communities and development

What was the cause of the Peloponnesian War?

What happened in Egypt after Akhenaton's death?

What Greek epic poem recounts the story of Achilles and the Trojan War?

What temple did Hadrian build the demonstrated the wealth, power, and extent of the Roman Empire?

What does the Allegory of the Cave teach?

According to legend Shamash dictaded the laws to which king who the wrote the first Law Code?

This Roman author wrote bitter and stinging satires that got into trouble with Rome

Which is not a characteristic of civilization?

How did the Peloponnesian War influence the plays of Euripides?

Which two powers were involved in the Peloponnesian War?