The iliad - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

GACE History 34, 35 Latest Update with Certified Solutions fluvial civilizations Civilizations that arose in river valleys (Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc.) Fertile Crescent Cradle of civilization from the Persian Gulf to the Sinai Peninsula (coined by Egyptologist James Breasted) Mesopotamia The location of the first civilization, the Akkadians, led by Sargon Sumerians Mesopotamian civilization. Invented the wheel, developed irrigation, cuneiform. Code of Hammurabi Famous Babylonian...

HIEU 2031 Terms Questions and Answers Graded A+ Franchthi caves A cave in southeastern Greece, was inhabited almost continuously from c. 20,00-3000 B.C, has enabled Archeologists to reconstruct life in Greece from the stone age to the early Bronze Age. Heinrich Schleimann Father of modern archeology A wealthy German businessman turned archaeologist, discovered city of troy (1871), believed Trojan war happened exactly as told in the Iliad Linear A What: An undeciphered writing ...

CSTU 101 CH. 3 Ancient Greece Popular Greek inventions - correct answer The crane and dice. Classical Ideal: Humanism - correct answer Confidence in human power and ingenuity. Classical Ideal: Fatalism - correct answer Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction. Minoan Culture - correct answer Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation. Development of pottery. Labyrinth and Minotaur. Mycenaean Culture - correct answer Warrior Civiliz...

A traditional pattern of action is a...? - Ritual Stories whose actors are ordinary people or animals...? - Folktale A story of the great deeds of humans, heroes, and heroines or the events of human past is a...? - Legend Traditional tales about gods and heroes is a...? - Myth A belief and the course of action that follows is...? - Religion Apollonius of Rhodes - Wrote the Argonautica about the quest for the golden fleece Homer - Wrote the Iliad of and the Odyssey about the Trojan War

CSTU 101 CH. 3 Ancient Greece Popular Greek inventions - correct answer The crane and dice. Classical Ideal: Humanism - correct answer Confidence in human power and ingenuity. Classical Ideal: Fatalism - correct answer Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction. Minoan Culture - correct answer Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation. Development of pottery. Labyrinth and Minotaur. Mycenaean Culture - correct answer Warrior Civiliz...

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? Correct Answer: Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? Correct Answer: Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? Correct Answer: Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? Correct Answer: The Parthenon

What nationality was Virgil? correct answers -He was a Roman poet. -He was the best. What happened when Virgil was 11? correct answers -Julius Caesar ruled Gaul. -He was raised on a farm. -He travel to many cities, since he was studying to become a lawyer (he never pursued the career though). What did Antony do to Virgil? correct answers -Antony stripped Virgil and his family of many lands. -Anotony had to do this in order to reward his soldiers with land for fighting in the civil ...

Praxis 5039 Authors Latest Update Graded A+ J.D. Salinger American writer The Catcher in the Rye Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind Homer Iliad Odyssey John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Emma Sense and Sensibility English Novelist Romantic Fiction Mary Shelley English novelist Gothic novel - Frankenstein Jonathon Swift Gulliver's Travels Upton Sinclair The Jungle Jack Lon...

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? - Answer Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? - Answer Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? - Answer Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? - Answer The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? - Answer Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries. - Answer The Patheon Plato's All...

Greek and Roman Imagination - ANSWERThere is imagination and no reality. Their imagination consists of several myths and magic. The Greeks believed in it, but the Romans did not. What is the importance of the Iliad? - ANSWERIt is the oldest of Greek literature. The Illiad has an indisputable proof of civilization. How do the Greeks compare to the Egyptians? - ANSWERThe Greeks made their own God's in their image, while the Egyptians didn't. what is the terrifying irrational? - ANSW...