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Thucydides
100
The statue is made of stone is an example of this type of analysis?
What is formal analysis?
100
Theatron, literally the "seeing place" in Greek, give us this modern word for a building in which plays are performed.
What is theater?
100
The lower left corner of the rhetorical triangle asks a reader to identify what first.
Who is the speaker?
100
This early Greek philosopher called himself the gadfly, and made it a point to question everything.
Who is Socrates?
100
Thucydides was one of the first people to write one of these genres?
What is a history?
200
The statue was an ornament for a temple is an example of what type of analysis?
What is contextual?
200
In Greek tragedy, one character must suffer a fall. This character is typically known as the Tragic what.
What is a tragic hero?
200
Socrates' greatest student was this man, in whose dialogues Socrates frequently appears as a character?
Who is Plato?
200
Thucydides recorded an oration given during the Pelopennesian War by this general, the son of Xanthippus?
Who is Pericles?
300
Over the course of the classical period, Greek sculpture became ever more what.
What is realistic?
300
The greek theater was in the open air, so actors' voices would been amplified by these, which were worn over their faces?
What are masks?
300
The fact that the funeral oration was written during a war is relevant to this part of the rhetorical triangle?
What is the occasion?
300
Greek philosophy is imbued with the sense that the universe is orderly and directed by this organizing principle, a Greek term that is sometimes translated as "word."
What is logos?
300
Immediately after the funeral oration, Thucydides recounts the story of this terrible event?
What is the plague of Athens?
400
Known in Greek as the Doryphoros, this statue, showing a man in contrapposto, was thought to be perfectly proportioned?
What is the spear-bearer?
400
Anagnorisis is this moment, when a critical discovery is made by a character in the tragedy?
What is recognition?
400
Of the three types of appeal, this is the one that deals with the speaker's credibility?
What is ethos?
400
Literally meaning "wise-ones", some of the targets of the earliest philosophers were these people, who taught rhetorical skills to the people of Athens.
Who are the sophists?
400
Thucydides identifies an increase in this as associated with the plague?
What is lawlessness?
500
This ratio, thought to be drawn from a study of human proportions, adorns many Greek sculptures and temples.
What is the golden ratio?
500
The plot of a tragedy involves desis; when a resolution occurs that plot is unwound through this opposite.
What is lysis?
500
Rhetorical skill was especially prized in ancient Athens because of the absence of this profession.
What are lawyers?
500
The main question the Republic seeks to answer is "what is this"
What is justice?
500
Like Pericles, Thucydides also held this office, one of the few elected offices in Greece?
What is strategos?