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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hamilton, tragedy is the domain of whom?

2. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.

3. Which of the following terms applies to the religion of the ancient Greeks?

4. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?

5. Euripides wrote the Trojan Women to _______________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Xenophon's views on war?

2. Sophocles and Aeschylus lived in different times in Athens. How did the Athens of Sophocles differ from the Athens of Aeschylus?

3. What are the similarities between Macbeth and the tragedies of Aeschylus?

4. What was the outcome of Peloponnesian War?

5. Where do the subjects of Greek tragedy come from?

6. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?

7. What are the four elements in every tragedy?

8. What does it mean to say that the Greeks are concerned with life and abstractions from life?

9. What were Thucydides' views on power and wealth?

10. How did Euripides treat religion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Athens is called the cradle of Western Civilization. What does this mean and why do people say this? What is the significance of ancient Athens to Western civilization and why?

Essay Topic 2

How did today's society, with its emphasis on the individual, compare to that of the ancient Greeks? How does the modern approach differ from that of the Greek's? Why can or can't modern society achieve what the Greeks did in the way that the Greeks did it?

Essay Topic 3

It is said that if one wants to learn the ethics and values of a society, one should examine the work of the dramatists and writers of the time. Why? What is it that is reflected in the literature that can't be found anywhere else? Is this also true of the ancient Greeks?

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