WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1, Spring 2005

Dr. Perdigao HUM 2051: Civilization I Fall 2014 Midterm Review Exam: Friday, October 10

Part I. In this section, you will fill in the blanks with information regarding characters’ names, key concepts, dates, and literary and historical terms. Consider the key concepts that have been outlined in the readings and listed in powerpoints—those will likely appear on the exam. A comprehensive list is included below:

Paleolithic Age: 200,000-100,000 BCE Neolithic Age: 10,000-4000 BCE Bronze Age: 4000-1000 BCE Mesopotamia Egypt Cuneiform Hieroglyphics Hebrew Bible Tower of Babel Adam and Eve Tree of knowledge of good and evil Cain and Abel Noah Lot, Lot’s wife Abraham and Sarah Isaac and Rebekah Jacob and Esau Joseph Homer The Iliad and The Odyssey Six epic conventions “Golden Age,” Dark Age 1240 BCE 750-725 BCE Telemakia Books I-IV Book XI Book XXIV The shield of Achilles Ekphrasis Parallels in The Iliad: Achilles: Hector Parallels in The Odyssey: Odysseus: Agamemnon Chaos: Order Rage: Pity Achilles Briseis Menelaus Thetis Peleus Hector Andromache Paris Helen Priam Hecuba Firebrand Patroclus Eris Apple (“to the fairest”) Hera, Athena, Aphrodite Power, wisdom, beauty Ithaca Odysseus Penelope Nestor Pisistratus Sparta Mycenae Ogygia Aeaea Helios Aeolus Polyphemus Proteus (Old Man of the Sea) Circe Calypso 10 years 7 years 1 year Sirens Lotus-eaters Mentor Tiresias Telemachus Demodocus Aphrodite and Ares Nausicaa Phaeacians Alcinous Broadsea Elpenor Ajax Scylla Charybdis Eumaeus Eurycleia Anticleia Laertes Hermes Shroud Twelve axes Stringing the bow Bed Olive tree Drama Comedy Dionysus Chorus Thespis Aeschylus Agamemnon 458 BCE Watchman Agamemnon Clytaemnestra Cassandra Aegisthus Iphigenia Orestes The Oresteia The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Resolution/Reconciliation as conclusion to comedy Aristophanes Lysistrata 411 BCE City-state Polis Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE Peace between 421-414 BCE Athens and Sparta Lysistrata Kalonike Lampito Myrrhine Kinesias Reconciliation Akropolis Deus ex machina Agon Hamartia Hubris Timé Arêté Kudos Anagnorisis Peripeteia Sophists Socrates Plato Thirty Tyrants Critias The Republic “The Apology of Socrates” The Sun, The Divided Line, and the Allegory of the Cave Corrupting youth of Athens, impiety Execution by drinking hemlock (399 BCE)

Part II. In brief responses, you will identify the significance of key quotes, stating why they are central to the texts’ meanings.

Parallels/revisions of characters between the texts Symbols within the text Organization of plot /ordering of books Favoritism: Jealousy; Captivity: Redemptive Rise; Rage: Pity; Chaos: Order Patterns, structures—descent into the underworld Role of women (from The Iliad: The Odyssey: Agamemnon: Lysistrata), power Role of the chorus