WGU C100 - WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES

Kouros - correct answer Type of statue featuring life sized male nudes in a stance in which the left foot is placed in front of the right. Muses - correct answer Goddesses of inspiration for literature, art, and science. Doric order - correct answer The simplest of the classical Greek architec...

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? - cor...

What is an aesthetic experience? - correct answer A feeling of pleasure that justifies itself Which topic is studied by the humanities? - correct answer The cultures and beliefs that make up the experience of being human Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature and scope of knowledge? ...

What is the difference between a myth and a monomyth? - correct answer A monomyth is a myth that is shared between many cultures, while a myth is a story particular to a culture. How does the visual art and architecture of Greece and Rome differ? - correct answer Much of the sculpture and archite...

Renaissance - correct answer A period in Western history 14th - 16th centuries marked by a revival of interest in culture. The overall atmosphere of change during the Renaissance proved conducive to artistic experimentation and innovation. Classicism - correct answer aestetic attitudes and princ...

What is an aesthetic experience? - correct answer A feeling of pleasure that justifies itself Which topic is studied by the humanities? - correct answer The cultures and beliefs that make up the experience of being human Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature and scope of knowledge? ...

Humanities - correct answer the creative and intellectual achievements of humankind Themes - correct answer unifying ideas that are repeated or developed throughout a literary artistic work Classicism - correct answer aesthetic attitudes and principles found in the art, architecture and litera...

Humanism - correct answer Celebrates human achievements and talent, and encourages people to become their best Truth/Reason - correct answer Accurate reality of the world and judgments based on logic Democracy - correct answer Government developed by the Greeks that is directly ruled by the pe...