WGU C100 Humanities Final Study
Guide
What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? ✔✔Oedipus Rex
What Poet wrote Iliad? ✔✔Homer
Greek Architecture was based on what structure? ✔✔Post and Lintel
The Greek
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WGU C100 Humanities Final Study
Guide
What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? ✔✔Oedipus Rex
What Poet wrote Iliad? ✔✔Homer
Greek Architecture was based on what structure? ✔✔Post and Lintel
The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? ✔✔The Parthenon
Geek plays generally shown in a ? ✔✔Ampitheater
Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for
Centeries. ✔✔The Patheon
Plato's Allgery in the Cave, what do the shadows represent? ✔✔Every Day Life
Polytheism ✔✔Belief in Multiple Gods
Ancient Greeks formed what kind of Government? ✔✔Democracy
Classical Drama Consisted of ? ✔✔Tragedies, Comedies and Satyr Plays
The Republic ✔✔Applied reason and logical thought to ideas about government and how to live.
Oedipus Rex ✔✔A story about a man who lives his life not knowing the truth about his parentige,
his pride causes him to ignore humanity, resulting in blindness and exile.
The Odyssey ✔✔Epic poem narrating the story of a greek hero who combined all the greatest
virtues of greek culture as well as greek Pantheon gods.
The Parthenon ✔✔Emphasized the themes of order and balance, as a temple to the goddess
Athena.
Lysistrata ✔✔A play about heroic women who with held sex from their husbands to end the war.
Sappho's Lyric poem "Alament for Adonis" represents what major theme of the classical period?
✔✔Humanism (Classical)
Why is the statue Kouros a notable Greek Sculpture? ✔✔It Utilizes vertical and Horizontal
Symetry
Which innovation during the classical period was based on balance and reason? ✔✔The
development of Western Philosophy and ideas of the Modern Scientific Method.
What is the Primary difference between Greek and Roman Societies? ✔✔Greeks lived in
democratic run states.
Romans had larger centralized Republic and eventually empire.
Aesthetic Experience ✔✔An experience of beauty that inspires a feeling.
Why is architecture considered and art? ✔✔Architecture is considered with an aesthetic effect of
structures and their enviroment.
How can art function beyond it Aesthetic Value? ✔✔It can act as political and social commentary.
Which disiplines fall within the realm of Humanities? ✔✔Music, religion, literature and Arcitech.
Myths ✔✔Traditional Stories that serve to explain some phenomena, the origin of humanity or
customs or religious rights.
Philosophy ✔✔Logic, aesthetics and epistemology are branches of ?
Functions of Art? ✔✔Art can assist physical and emotional healing.
Art can be used to enable commerse-advertising and sales.
Art provides Aesthetic pleasure.
Love and the Archetype of hero are examples of? ✔✔Universal Themes
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