Humanities 1010 RODP Module 2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| What was a polis? | The city-state; a Greek community.
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| What is a kouros? | A standing, nude male statue.
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| What is a kore? | A standing female statue, clad in drapery.
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| What is the significance of Kritios Boy? | A Greek statue, it is the first to depict movement in statuary.
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| Who was Athena? | Greek goddess of wisdom.
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| Who was Zeus? | The mythological Greek father of the gods.
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| Who was Hera? | Zeus' wife, the queen of heaven in Greek mythology.
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| Who was Poseidon? | The brother of Zeus, the god of the sea in Greek mythology.
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| What is the Acropolis? | The hill on which the Parthenon and other temples were built.
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| What is the Parthenon? | The temple of Athena, from the Greek word "parthenos" meaning virgin.
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| Who was Aeschylus? | The first Greek playwright; essentially an optimist in his writings.
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| Who was Sophocles? | A Greek tragic poet.
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| What was "Oedipus Rex?" | A Greek tragic drama written by Sophocles.
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| Who was Euripides? | A Greek tragic poet.
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| What is meant by catharsis? | A "purging"; part of a play or story where the audience is relieved of the tension of the action.
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| Explain the order of columns. | In architecture, the style of a pillar or column. The Greek orders were the Doric and Ionic. The Romans added the Corinthian order. Each was a particular style of construction and adornment, the Corinthian being the most elaborate.
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| Who was Herodotus? | The first Greek historian.
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| What is hubris? | Excessive ambition or pride.
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| What is hamartia? | A flaw in the character of a noble person that causes a tragic fate.
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
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