C100 Humanities Final Study Guide Questions & Correct Answers!!

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? - ANSWEROedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? - ANSWERHomer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? - ANSWERPost and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? - ANSWERThe Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? - ANSWERAmpitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries. - ANSWERThe Patheon Plato's Allgery in the Cave, what do the shadows represent? - ANSWEREvery Day Life Polytheism - ANSWERBelief in Multiple Gods Ancient Greeks formed what kind of Government? - ANSWERDemocracy Classical Drama Consisted of ? - ANSWERTragedies, Comedies and Satyr Plays The Republic - ANSWERApplied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live. Oedipus Rex - ANSWERA story about a man who lives his life not knowing the truth about his parentige, his pride causes him to ignore humanity, resulting in blindness and exile. The Odyssey - ANSWEREpic poem narrating the story of a greek hero who combined all the greatest virtues of greek culture as well as greek Pantheon gods. The Parthenon - ANSWEREmphasized the themes of order and balance, as a temple to the goddess Athena. Lysistrata - ANSWERA play about heroic women who with held sex from their husbands to end the war. Sappho's Lyric poem "Alament for Adonis" represents what major theme of the classical period? - ANSWERHumanism (Classical) Why is the statue Kouros a notable Greek Sculpture? - ANSWERIt Utilizes vertical and Horizontal Symetry