Euripides - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Fifteenth and Sixteenth century Europe - correct answer -Uprising of criticism of organized religion because of the invention of the printing press and the widespread printing of the bible in the vernacular and not in Latin -Renaissance: 1) women became better educated and started writing and becoming artists 2) realism in painting -Transatlantic exploration -Humanist period of thought syntax - correct answer The way in which words are put together to form phrases semantics - corr...

Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)() - Answer Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450. Early Dark Age(1250-900): - Answer -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline. -Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over. -1250 marks Trojan war. Late Dark Age (900-750): - Answer -Population growth and new trade. -800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Sicil...

Thea 201 Final Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Ethical reasoning consists of following the rules set out by moral and legal codes. False Justice-based ethics takes for granted that people are autonomous and independent from one another, while care-based ethics assumes that people are interconnected through relationships of dependence. True Match the Ancient Greek individual with the correct description. Pericles-Leader of Athens during The Golden Age of the fifth century...

TJC English 2332 Final Exam Review Question and answers rated A+ 2023/2024What are the two poles of the human condition? - correct answer War & Peace - they are on Achilles' shield Who are the three Greek playwrights? - correct answer Sophocles / Euripides / Aeschylus Archon; - correct answer mayor Catharsis; - correct answer some sort of emotional release Choragus; - correct answer priest of Dionysus Choregos; - correct answer "patron" usually a wealthy Athenian What was th...

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM TEST (QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS)2024/2025 According to the essay "Ancient Athenian Drama," before the invention of tragedy there were contests in which rhapsodes recited parts of what works of literature? - CORRECT ANSWER-Homer's Iliad and Odyssey What did Aeschylus supposedly call his own work? - CORRECT ANSWER-"Slices from the feast of Homer" What does the essay say about the entrances and exits of characters in Greek drama? - CORRECT ANSWER-To...

Oedipus' biological father - correct answer Laius Oedipus' adoptive father - correct answer Polybus Oedipus' biological mother - correct answer Jocasta Oedipus' adoptive mother - correct answer Merone Where was Oedipus born? - correct answer Thebes Where did Oedipus live with his adoptive parents? - correct answer Corinth What does Oedipus do when he finds out he is adopted? - correct answer He goes to the Oracle of Delphi Why did Oedipus leave Corinth? - correct answer ...

Camus - Algerian author who wrote The Stranger, "The Rebel," and The Plague. Chaucer - Author who wrote The Book of the Duchess, Canterbury Tales, and House of Fame. Paradise Lost - Name this epic poem by John Milton that ends with with the first humans being exiled from the Garden of Eden. Milton - This author was an English poet who wrote Paradise Lost and Areopagitica. Faulkner - This American author wrote about a woman's murder in "A Rose for Emily." Name this man who wrote ...

Homer - Odyssy and Iliad Blind, his works were compiled after is death Iliad - story of Ilium or Troy Odyssey - Story of Ulysses/Odysseus The Argonauts - Story of Jason and the Argus trying to get the golden fleece Pericles - important founder of democracy Greek Historians - Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon Greek Playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides Aeschylus - Father of tragedy Prometheus Bound Sophocles - Greek writer of tragedies; author of Oedipus Rex, Antigone Euriped...

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM TEST (QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS)2024/2025 According to the essay "Ancient Athenian Drama," before the invention of tragedy there were contests in which rhapsodes recited parts of what works of literature? - CORRECT ANSWER-Homer's Iliad and Odyssey What did Aeschylus supposedly call his own work? - CORRECT ANSWER-"Slices from the feast of Homer" What does the essay say about the entrances and exits of characters in Greek drama? - CORRECT ANSWER-To...

Thea 201 Final Exam Questions And Answers 2024 How many of the following are characteristics of Realism in the theatre? - ANS-Characters are presented as morally ambiguous, i.e., neither all good nor all bad. Characters are portrayed as products of their environments The play presents the characters' environment in as much material detail as possible Actors behave as if there is a "fourth wall" separating them from the audience Match the Ancient Greek individual with the correct descri...