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Textbook: Fox: chapters 5-13
I. Identification
The second section will be listing and identification section.  For identifications, be sure to explain completely who, what, when, where, why, how  & significance for each item.  

II. Listing

The following are possible listing items

1. Three themes of Robin Lane Fox's  The Classical World

2. List the four separate ages of Greece and 2 sources for each

3. Three epic cycles of the Dark Age Greece

4. Name three other religious festivals (not games) for Greece & their god/ purpose

5. Name the traditional 12 Olympians and the aspect of life they represented

6. Name the three principles of the polis

7. Name & define the three stages of the Agoge
8. List the three basic problems of polis
9. List the rules of archaic warfare
10. Name six works of Aristotle. 
11. Name the institutions of the Athenian government and the institutions of the Spartan government
12. Name and define the two types of liberty for Classical Greece

13. Name the four classes established by Solon

14. List four characteristics of the Western Greeks (Sicily & Italy) 

15. List the five stages of the Persian Wars and event from each stage. 

16. Name and give an example of the five themes of the Persian Wars according R.L. Fox (textbook).

17. Name five academic disciplines represented in Herodotus'  Histories

18. List the strengths and weaknesses of both sides in the Persian Wars.

19. Name six battles of Persian wars and their results

20. List the provisions of the Thirty Years' Peace.

III. Quotes

The third section will be to identify the following quotes by speaker, occasion, and significance.

1. "Master do not forget the Athenians."
2. "Grant O son of Cronos, that the battle-cry of the Carthaginians and the Etruscans may stay quietly at home... Such were their losses when they were vanquished by the rule of the Syracusans, who threw their young men into the sea from their ships, drawing Greece from heavy slavery"
3. "My men have have fought like women, and my women like men"
4. "This memorial hides Aeschylus, the Athenian, son of Euphorion Who died in wheat-bearing Gela. The precinct of Marathon and the long-haired Mede, Who knows it well, may tell of his great valor.”
5. “Come back with your shield, or on it”
6. “That is good news. We will fight in the shade!”
7. “Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedemonians that we lie here in obedience to their orders.”
8. “A woman is, as it were, an infertile male. She is female in fact on account of a kind of inadequacy.”
9. "and the same is the case with the so-called womb or matrix of women ; the animal within them is desirous of procreating children, and when remaining unfruitful long beyond its proper time, gets discontented and angry, and wandering in every direction through the body, closes up the passages of the breath,"
10. "Man is a political animal." -- Be prepared to give the actual translation.
11. “I declare that our city is an education to Greece,”
12. "I am not a friend to wrong.  It is not my wish that the weak man should have wrong done to him by the mighty... nor that the mighty should have wrong done to him by the weak."
13. "Among the Greeks, individuals determined to stand out from all others were characteristic, and the concept of personal power became paramount"
14. "Wretched ones, who do you sit here?
15. "so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by the lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been produced by Hellenes and some by Barbarians, may lose their renown, and especially that the causes may be remembered for which these waged war with one another."
16. “The community needs both male and female excellences or it can only be half-blessed.”

     

     

IV. Essay
The third section will be to write one complete essay on one of the following.  You will have a choice of three questions. You choose one.

1. Discuss the rise and development of demokratia in Athens. Who were the major reformers? What were the problems, solutions and structures of the government?
2. Discuss the rise and development of eunomia in Sparta. What were the major social, economic, and political structures of this polis? What were its primary problems?
3. Trace the development of the hoplite phalanx and explain its significance in Greek society. Explain the elements of training, campaigns and equipment.
4. Discuss how the concepts of freedom and luxury were embodied in the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians.  Illustrate the characteristics of each society -- as seen by the Greeks, and how these changed after the Persian Wars.
5. Compare and contrast life in Athens, Corinth and Sparta.  What were the similarities in social structures, government and economics and what were the differences?   (You will have more on Athens and Sparta, but be sure to include Corinth)
6. Political analysis of Greece focuses on the society of adult men, but as many modern historians love to point out, there was more to Greece than just those in the Assemblies.  Discuss the circumstances of the lives of women, children and slaves in Greece.  Use lecture material and chapters 12 & 17 from your textbook.  Be sure to include examples from more than one polis.
7. Discuss the phases of the Persian Wars.  What were the strengths and weaknesses of both sides?  Explain the stages, the turning points and significant battles. Why was this war significant in Western civilization?
8. Herodotus is called the father of history in the West.  Evaluate this title using his book The Histories.  Use specific examples to explain why he is given this title, and the strengths and weaknesses of his  Histories.