Exam 4: Greek Thought: From Myth to Reason

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Use information from both Chapters 3 and 4 to answer the following question: The author stresses the importance of the Greeks and the Hebrews as two sources of Western civilization. Based on the information present to this point, compare and contrast the contribution of each.

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? drama

Drama originated in Greece from

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? relativism

A distinctive theme in Sophocles' plays, such as Oedipus Rex and Antigone , is

Greek civilization departed from their Near Eastern antecedents in all the following ways EXCEPT the Greeks

Aristotle

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In what ways did the Greeks' approach to nature, history, and medicine represent an attempt to systematize knowledge?

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? ethics

The text argues that the immense historical importance of the development of rational thought in Greece was

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Pre-Socratics

It could be said that Aristophanes

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? hubris

The central theme of Pindar's poetry is

Who may be remembered as the first actor in history because he engaged in dialogue?

Plato's The Republic

The text notes that Plato was strongly influenced by