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Humnities
Test 2
Question | Answer |
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what is heroic about Odysseus | |
iliad came 20 yrs before Odyssey | k |
Lion Gate | -entrance to Mycenae, Greece, c. 1300 BCE - |
WArrior Vase | Mycenae, Greece, c. 1200 BCE -it's weak -miss-portioned and look like cartoons -vase imbalanced |
Gunerary Crater Vase | Ancient Greece |
Horse, | Geometric prd, c. 8th c. BCE, greece -look at life abstractly |
gods | Zeus-king of all gods, stongest, thunder bolts Neptune-Zeus brother Hera-wife of Zeus and in some the sister, jealous b/c he mates with everything he can -D |
12 gods | zeus, athena,n |
vases | k |
horse | k |
male overthrows the king and kills him | |
misagyny | hatred+uterus -intense hatred of the female -starts as result of earth-goddess cultures being overthrown -if anything goes wrong, look for the woman b/c she is behind it somewhere |
p 74 this is misagyny | -let the... -certain women that learned everything the men did and some who only cleaned houses and weren't respected for it |
Classical greece | defeat of persians to death of alexander the Great 480-323 bce |
golden age | date |
acropolis | "high" "city" - |
Parthenon | 448-432 bce, Iktinos and Kalikrates, architects - |
reading from Heroditis who he was what he did what does he tell us about xerxes sending a spy. what was the report -what made him not understand the difference in their people | -father of history because he is great storyteller -they were combing their hair and wiping bodies down with oil -preparing to die by taking care of body |
what else could the spy not understand? How were own soldiers different? | -they had whips. persian army not well trainined |
cultures | persians-iron hand-godhead in effect, no individual rights, domination system Greece-knew were going to die, but got ready for their death, great sense of pride for their courage and advances |
Draco | set up code of laws - |
Hoziratis | took land of ppl with much land and redistributed it to ppl who didnt have any land |
jogged from battle at marathon to Athens | 26.2 mi which became origin of marathon race |
remarkable things about Spartans in Her story | warriors from birth, well trained |
what accidities does he give us that makes greece different from other places in Greece? what's important ways of life? | -love of beauty -physical power -competitive games -sense of beauty like "what brings me my greatest joy" -those who rise do so b/c of their own merit |
what is the point of having $ in Athens? | $ better be used to make community better |
*talk about mans way of life Thucidities | -don't hate pleasures of different ppl -respect law -relax and have fun -import and produce -trust in self to act -pursue manliness early -may have to fight for life -love beauty and wisdom |
*man's way of life | -man who won't contribute to society is useless, leech or parasite, taking privilages but not contributing in any way -listening to reasons for doing something and then doing it, logic, tell me the benefits and what i'm standing for |
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most great things come from suffering | make us access who we are |
3 greek orders of architecture | -doric, ionic, Corinthian |
*column, fluting, capital, doric, ionic, campus leaves of corinthians, entablature, frieze, trigliphs, metopes,cornis, pediment | k |
temple of athena Nike, Acropolis | k |
Erechtheion, Acropolis | detail of caryatide (korai) |
architectural features | -most characteristic feature in architecture and decoration of temple is ionic frieze |