MIDTERM REVIEW I. IMAGES: 3 minutes per image. Answer each question.

1. Who is the figure lying outstretched in the bottom part of the composition? 2. Who are the other figures? 3. Describe the conflict which surrounds this scene in the literary text which narrates this image.

1. Where is this image from? 2. What is being depicted? 3. How does this image fit into the narrative of the sources weve read so far?

1. Where is this monument? 2. What is it? 3. Explain briefly what heroic ideals this monument incorporates.

II.

READINGS: Identify author, work, context; speaker(s), what is being discussed, importance of content.

I will indulge your anger because you are my elders And in this respect you possess greater wisdom. But Zeus has made my mind for good, And I know that if you leave for foreign lands I promise your hearts will long for Athens. Here the passage of time will lead to honor, My people will enshrine you on stately thrones Next to the house of Erechtheus, and a sacred Procession of men and women will grace you With gifts unsurpassed in the mortal realm. Leave your gory grindstones that whet the appetite For blood, and sicken the stomachs of the young With intoxicating ferocity and bloodthirsty rage.

what I did has proved to be for your good fortune and for my own ill fortune. The fault lies with the god of the Greeks who encouraged me to embark on this campaign. No one is so foolish as to choose war instead of peace. In peacetime children bury their fathers, in wartime fathers bury their children. It must be by divine will that this has come upon me.

On it he made two cities, peopled And beautiful. Weddings in one, festivals, Brides led from their rooms by torchlight Up through the town, bridal song rising, Young men reeling in dance to the tune Of lyres and flutes, and the women Standing in their doorways admiring them. There was a corwd in the market-place And a quarrel arising between two men Over blood money for a murder, One claiming the right to make restitution, The other refusing to accept any terms. They were heading for an arbitrator And the people were shouting, taking sides, But heralds restrained them. The elders sat On polished stone seats in the sacred circle And held in their hands the staves of heralds. The pair rushed up and pleaded their cases, And between them lay two ingots of gold For whomever spoke straightest in judgement.