Exam 4: Greek Thought From Myth to Reason

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How does the development of Greek drama epitomize the movement of Greek culture from myth toward rationality?

Which of the following explains the relationship between the ideas of Socrates and Plato?

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

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?

Which is an INCORRECT statement about the relationship of Socrates to the Sophists?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Compare and contrast the thought and writings of Plato and Aristotle. What does the work of each philosopher reveal about the values and practices of Greek thought?

Socrates believed moral values came from

In his plays, Euripides

In The Clouds , the playwright Aristophanes

Which of the following is NOT considered as a condition that enabled the Greeks to make their breakthrough in rational thought?

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

Who was the most prominent female poet in Antiquity?

Plato's The Republic

Which best describes Plato's theory of ideas?

The ideas of Anaximander included which of the following?

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

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

Aristotle

Which of the following effectively pairs early Greek thinkers with their ideas?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. What innovations did Greek historians develop in their attempt to understand the past? Explain how the Greek approach to history differed from that of other Near Eastern peoples.