Standard IV: Identify cultural contributions of Classical Greece, including politics, intellectual life, arts, literature, architecture, and science.
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(DOK 2) Calculate the missing side measurement using the Pythagorean Theorem (Round to the nearest hundredth).
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(DOK 1) Columns in ancient Greece were nearly always made of __________, which was imported from various places around the Mediterranean Sea.
alabaster
marble
granite
limestone
(DOK 1) Match each name and description with the correct Greek Order (column).
Corinthian
Ionic
The most simplistic or plain of the Classical column styles.
The most lavish, elaborate, and ornate column of the Greek Orders.
Doric
The defining characteristic is the scroll-shaped ornaments that sit atop the shaft.
(DOK 1) Identify the figure(s) that served as the main inspiration for Greek sculptors during the Classical Period.
fallen military heroes
mythological gods and goddesses
citizens of extraordinary beauty
famed Olympic athletes
IMAGE: The statue of Zeus at the god's temple in Olympia (Alfred Charles Conrade, 1913-1914).
(DOK 1) Identify the artist, who according to his contemporaries, was the most renowned of all Greek sculptors.
Myron of Eleutherae
Phidias of Athens
Polyclitus of Argos
Lysippus of Sicyon
(DOK 1) The Greeks strove for __________, which became the most extraordinary revolution in the history of art because it gave way to breathtaking accuracy and detail of human anatomy and posture.
stylization
abstract expressionism
realism
cubism
The first sentence of his text explains why Herodotus wrote his monumental work: "Herodotus of Halicarnassus here presents his research so that human events do not fade with time. May the great and wonderful deeds - some brought forth by the Hellenes (Greeks), others by the barbarians (Persians) - not go unsung; as well as the causes that led them to make war on each other."
(DOK 1) Identify the subject area to which Herodotus contributed.
history
literature
politics
science
(DOK 2) Identify how Thucydides differs from Herodotus.
Thucydidies was accused of trying to sway readers through his overly graphic descriptions of war and violence.
Thucydides is criticized for his lengthy digressions, love of romantic stories, and the lengths he would go to in censuring his subjects for what he perceived as their failings.
Thucydides is regarded as the first "true historian" for his non-judgmental style which sought to report events in an unbiased manner.
Thucydides was an exemplar of “tragic history,” a new style or school of historical writing which placed a greater value on entertainment and excitement rather than factual reporting.
(DOK 1) Identify Homer's work, which is considered to be the first great epic poem in Western Literature.
The Divine Comedy
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Epic of Gilgamesh
Beowulf
(DOK 1) Match each description with the correct type of Greek Drama.
Plays that dealt with the themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power, and the fraught relationships between men and gods.
Satirical plays aimed at mocking men in power for their vanity and foolishness.
Short plays, performed between the acts of tragedies that made fun of the plight of the tragedy's characters.
Tragedy
Comedy
Satyr
(DOK 1) Quite literally, the term "philosophy" means, "love of __________."
wisdom
one's self
nature
truth
(DOK 1) Match each description with the correct Socratic Philosopher.
He is remembered for his teaching methods and for asking thought-provoking questions.
Student of Plato and often referred to as "the Philosopher."
He has been called the father of logic, biology, political science, zoology, embryology, natural law, scientific method, rhetoric, psychology, realism, criticism, individualism, teleology, and meteorology.
Rather than renounce his beliefs, he died willingly, discoursing on the immortality of the soul before drinking poisonous hemlock.
Student of Socrates who's Theory of Forms asserts that the physical world is not really the 'real' world; instead, ultimate reality exists beyond our physical world.
He founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent.
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
(DOK 1) Identify the Greek scientist who developed the Theory of Buoyancy, illustrated that Pi was between 3 1/7 - 3 10/71, and built a defensive death ray.