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Which of the following is best known as a comic playwright?

On the first day of class, your professor walks in and announces that she will not be giving a lecture. Instead, she sits down and spends the whole period asking questions, attempting to get to the root of an issue. You recognize this learning method from your humanities class. What is it called?

What is the term for the Greek public marketplace where people, including philosophers would meet?

Which Greek philosopher started a school called the Academy?

First answer: What does the term “stylized” mean, as it applies to art history?   Next: Select one work of art that you studied from the Ancient Western World that this term can apply to and describe the stylization and its visual effects. Finally describe and explain least two possible reasons for the stylization. (What does the stylization indicate about the culture or its values?) Grading Criteria: Explaining stylized (2 points) Picking an appropriate work of art (2 points) Describe stylization/visual effect (2 points) Possible reasons for stylization (2 points)

What is the fundamental role of the chorus in Sophocles’s tragedies?

Though Corinth dominated the pottery trade during the Orientalizing period, which powerful city-state came to dominate the craft during the Archaic period, leading to a trade rivalry which led in part to the Peloponnesian War?

Which of the following is a principal distinction of the Orientalizing amphora we looked at, Amphora with Animal Frieze, compared to those of the Geometric genre?

Which philosopher is credited with making philosophy a unique object of study, heavily influencing Western philosophical thought?

What is parabasis?