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What deity was the protector of Athens? |
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Who was the popular leader of Athens who launched a public works building program that has impressed the world ever since? |
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Name the three greatest Athenian writers of tragedies. |
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Who was Alexander the Great's tutor? |
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Who is considered to be the "father of history"? |
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Who were the architects of the Parthenon? |
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Name the posture developed by the Greeks that made figurative sculptures more relaxed and lifelike. It places the body's weight on one leg. |
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Name the polar opposite deities who represent light and dark, reason and passion, balance and excess, all of which are parts of human nature. Identify which is associated with reason and which with passion. |
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Name the Athenian civic festival during which tragedy (theater) was born. |
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Which Greek deity counseled "Nothing in excess"? |
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When people use the term "classic" to refer to specific aesthetic standards, they are generally referring to standards established by which cultures? |
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Who wrote the Poetics, which states that the purpose of tragedy is to work a cathartic or purging effect on the audience, to arouse "pity and terror" so that these negative emotions could be drained from the soul? |
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Name the title of the play in which the women of Athens and Sparta withhold sex from their husbands until they sign a peace treaty. |
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Western study of history began with the Greeks. What does the Greek word historia mean? |
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What were the two main camps of Greek natural philosophy at the beginning of the Hellenic Age? One group thought the world was made up of some physical substance; the other thought the physical world was an illusion and that a spiritual or metaphysical power was the primary substance. |
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What Greek philosopher used rigorous logic and step-by-step questions to bring students to a search for knowledge? He was sentenced to death for impiety and corruption of youth. |
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What philosopher wrote the Republic, launched the study of political philosophy in the West, and described an invisible world of Forms, or Ideas? |
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Which Greek columns have elegant bases and capitals that look like a scroll's ends or ram's horns? These columns were more slender than the preceding style. |
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Name the specific contrapposto form associated with the sculpture Hermes with the Infant Dionysius, and named after that piece's sculptor. |
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A bronze statue of a mature god with beard, fully developed body, and the perfection of High Classicism's ideal of virile grace was found in the Aegean Sea. Name the two gods that may be depicted in this statue. |
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