The Oresteia
Best Things
Ancient Greece
Hellenistic Era
Potpourri
100
What does Clytemnestra see that lets her know the war with Troy is over?
a signal fire
100
What are the 2 options for something to be considered "good" to Socrates?
means and ends
100
What was the Greek fighting formation called which featured a single unit shaped into a rectangle?
Phalanx
100
The Greek fighting formation which featured a single unit shaped into a rectangle was called:
a phalanx
100
Who was kept prisoner in Thebes for 3 years?
King Philip II
200
Who are the libation bearers?
Orestes and Electra
200
What does Socrates say is the way we can liberate ourselves from the "cave of ignorance?"
logic and reasoning
200
Who reforms ultimately avoided a civil war in Athens?
Solon
200
During the Hellenistic Era, theater changed from tragedies to:
New Comedy
200
Which society stressed conformity, stability, and order?
Sparta
300
Why does Athena side with Orestes?
She always sides with the man.
300
What are 3 ways that Peter Pragma tries to define success?
wealth, fame, power, honor, etc
300
Who is credited with turning Athens into the democracy that served as a model for future democracies?
Pericles
300
Which belief says that freedom from emotional turmoil and pain is the way to happiness?
Epicureanism
300
How does Apollo seek to establish justice for Orestes?
by arguing that a mother is only an incubator and has no blood relation
400
Could Agamemnon have escaped his fate?
No, the curse on the House of Atreus demanded blood for blood; the "new democratic" way had not yet been put in place by Athena
400
Explain Plato's "Allegory of the Cave."
People are like prisoners in a cave where all they see are shadows of things passing behind them. One prisoner escapes and sees the "real" world, but when he tries to convince the others there is more than what they see, they do not believe him. The escaped prisoner is a philosopher and the prisoners are the masses.
400
Give 2 examples of why the Athenians were not as "democratic" as history makes them out to be
1. only males could be citizens 2. When Melos asked to stay neutral in war against Sparta, Athenians killed them all ETC
400
What are 2 advances in science and medicine that happened during the Hellenistic era?
dissection/vivisection, advances in math, advances in astronomy
400
What is the problem with Socrates' approach to finding "the good life?"
The bottom-up approach relies on inherently flawed human reasoning and has no set of universal standards to measure up against.
500
Why is it important for Athena to persuade the Furies to stay in Athens?
To prove that the new way of justice is a good way to run society
500
According to Socrates, what is the "good life?"
Using reasoning to get at what life IS, not just what it seems.
500
What are the "ideal forms" that Plato talks about in his Republic?
The ideal forms are the "true" and "purest" forms of concepts like happiness or goodness and can only be found through reasoning.
500
What are 3 causes for the "Great" in Alexander the Great?
accomplishments in conquering Persia, effects after his death, legend embellishment
500
Do Orestes and Electra seem to see any justice in the murder of their father?
No, they are concerned only with a blood for blood vengeance against their mother (conveniently ignoring the murder of their sister at Agamemnon's hands).
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