Gorgon's head on a silver coin of Naples permission to use image granted

F11: CLA227, Greek Civilization: Review for Exam IV

The god Apollo on a gold coin of Syracuse image courtesy of Edgar L. Owen, #3803

• Consider the manner in which Socrates (according to Plato) defended himself. 
  
• What were the various charges? 
  
• In particular, what were the slanderous charges (p.20) and
  
• what were the actual charges lodged against Socrates (p. 25)? 
  
• Who were the accusers?
  
• Which charges is Socrates most concerned with?
• Who was Chaerephon and how did he set Socrates on his mission in life? 
  
• In what way was Socrates the wisest?
• What was Socrates' daimon (i.e. "familiar oracle within me" in 3rd speech on p 39) and how did it function somewhat like our conscience? 
  
• How was Socrates' arete similar to yet quite different from that of the Homeric heroes (or Olympic victors)?
  
• In what way was Socrates the gadfly of Athens?
• After being convicted what penalty did Socrates propose himself? 
  
• Why did Socrates not go into exile? 
  
• Why did Socrates not fear death? 
  
• How can Socrates be described as a martyr? 
  

Rowdies, Rogues, and Robbers (Kebric, Ch 7 & Pomeroy, 235-238)

• Intro to the Law courts at Athens:
  
• Who could propose laws, where were they located?
• Distinction between "private" and "public" cases?
  
• Who were jurors, how much were they paid, how did they vote, and how large were the juries?
  
• What is a water clock and how was it used?
  
• What were the steps and their corresponding procedures of a case prior to the case coming before a jury?
  
• Procedures of the trial itself?
• Ways a murder trial was different from private case? Where were murder trials held?
  
• Types of evidence acceptable? Restrictions on slave testimony; on female testimony?
  
• Terms: prosklesis, graphe or dike, antigraphe or antidike, anakrisis, thesmothetai, atimia
• 5 cases discussed by Kebric
• know the basic plots of all
• People:
  
• Eratothenes, Euphiletus & family, former mistress
• Ariston, Conon, Conon's sons
• Philoneos, his concubine, his friend, his friend's wife & sons
• Diodotus, Diogeiton, Diogeiton's wife & sons, Phaedrus
• Phormio, Chrysippus, Lampis
  

• What did Alexander inherit at age 20 with his ascension to the throne?
  
• How did Alexander consolidate his power?
• Invasion of Asia:  Theatrics?  Granicus? Issus? Darius III? March along the coast?
  
• What did he learn in Egypt from Zeus Ammon? Significance?
  
• Offer of Darius III? Battle of Gaugamela
  
• What other areas did Alexander conquer?
• Alexander's new approach & tension with army
  
• Why did he finally turn back? Where was he? Whom had he just defeated? Treatment of the just defeated?
  
• What did he die of?
  
• What were his political and cultural visions for his empire?
• Whom did he marry?
  
• How did he promote Hellenism?
• Key "terms" to know: Alexander III (the Great), Alexandria, Battle of Gaugamela, Battle of Granicus, Battle of Hydraspes, Battle of Issus, Darius III, Gordian Knot, Persepolis, Porus, proskynesis, Roxane, Thebes, Zeus-Ammon
  

• 323-276: "Age of the Successors"
• The Regency of Perdiccas
• Who became regent on Alexander's death?
• Ptolemy I, Lysimachus, and Antigonus the One-Eyed became satraps of what lands?
• What became of Perdiccas?
• Seleucus got?
  
• The Primacy of Antigonus the One-Eyed
• Who was Alexander IV and what was the effect of his death in 310?
• Who fought against whom in 301?
• The last Hellenistic ruler, who died in 30 BC, was?
  
• The Polis in the Hellenistic World
• Know the names of the two strong federal states that developed within Greece.
• Athens & Sparta
• People to know: Menander, Zeno, Epicurus
• Philosophies: Stoicism, Epicurianism, Cynicism, Skepticism
  
• Hellenistic Society (New Opportunities in a Colonial World)
  
• Why the new opportunities?
  
• For whom?
  
• Doing what?
  
• Women?
  
• What does the marriage document tell us?
  
• Alexandria and Hellenistic Culture
• Alexandria: founded by? transformed by? Pharos? "Museum:" what was it, famous works.
  
• People to know: Theocritus, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Euhemerus
  
• The Visual Arts: What are the key trends in art and how are they reflective of the age? How is realism portrayed?
  
• Scholarship and Science: Eratosthenes, Herophilus, Erasistratus (both books), Euclid
  
• Social Relations in the Hellenistic World
• The Place of Non-Greeks: two views are? How native Egyptian religious families treated; village officials?
  
• Hellenistic Religion: Examples of assimilation & adaption? Sarapis?
• What did the establishment of the Hellenistic Kingdoms mark the end of? Why?
  

• Know the plot and the themes of honor, fame, greed, love, expediency (results vs honor)
• Characters: Agamemnon, Menelaus, Helen, Odysseus, Ajax, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Paris, Priam, Andromache, Briseis, Trojan priest/prophet
  

• Deipnon: What are the five parts of a typical Greek dinner? What are some of the typical foods for each of these parts?
• Feasts: What are key features of the Public Banquet at Naucratis? Women present? What priests are mentioned and what do they get?
  
• Foods of the Greeks: How is cheese different & similar to today? Protein: themes to what proteins they ate? What is garos? How are fruits organized? How are wines different from most wines today? Similar?