Study Guide: CLST 1003. Fall, 2009. University of Arkansas. Professor
Daniel B. Levine.
The first hour exam will be in class (2:30 PM) on Friday, September 25,
2009.
Students will bring blank blue books to class.
I. SHORT ANSWERS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREECE
Briefly describe and give examples of the following (include location,
date, material, and use, as appropriate). [Students will write on two
out of four from the following.] 30%
“Dark Ages” of Greece
Cyclopean Masonry
Ekphora
Linear A
Linear B
Loutrophoros
Peristyle
Prothesis
Relieving Triangle
Rhyton
Thalassocracy
Tholos Tomb
Xoanon
Example of a minimum answer: Megaron: Mycenaean Room in
a ‘palace’. Bronze Age, Greece.
Example of a more complete answer: Megaron: Main
room in a Mycenaean palace, usually with a hearth in the center, provision
for smoke to exit through the roof, with four columns around it, entered
through one or more anterooms and a two-columned porch. It was probably
a northern import into Greece, since it is more appropriate to a colder
climate. Because some had a raised platform on one side, similar to the
‘throne room’ at Knossos, some call the main room a ‘throne room.’ It was
usually decorated with frescoes on the walls and floor, as in the ‘Palace
of Nestor’ at Pylos. It was probably used for ceremonial purposes. Ca. 1600-1200
BCE.
II. ILIAD RELATIONSHIPS
Describe the relationship between the following, with examples from the
Iliad (Describe how they interact, the importance for the context,
the development of character, cultural knowledge of the period, the effect
on the audience). [Students will write on two out of four from
the following.] 30%
Agamemnon and Calchas (1)
Thetis and Zeus (1)
Aphrodite and Helen (3)
Priam and Helen (3)
Hector and Andromache (6)
Diomedes and Dolon (10)
Hera and Aphrodite (14)
Zeus and Sarpedon (16)
Thetis and Hephaestus (18)
Achilles and Scamander (21)
Achilles and Patroclus’ Ghost (23)
Cassandra and Hector (24)
Example of a minimum answer: Hector and Andromache (6):
Husband and wife. They meet in Troy when Hector returns from battle. They
laugh at their son’s fear of Hector’s helmet.
Example of a more complete answer: Hector and Andromache (6):
Hector is the main protector of Troy, whom his wife Andromache asks
not to return to battle. Their relationship is touching, in that Andromache
says that her husband Hector is everything to her, since Achilles has killed
the rest of her family. Together they laugh at their son Astyanax’s fear
of his father’s helmet plume, and Hector prays that some day his son will
make his mother proud by doing great deeds in war. Hector prophetically
recognizes that Andromache will be taken as a slave to Greece, when Troy
falls to the Achaeans. He stresses that war is his top priority, and that
he will die when his ‘fate’ demands it. In addition to giving relief from
the battle narrative by means of a domestic scene, this gives the audience
sympathy for a man whose duty to his country overshadows his responsibility
to stay alive for his family. It also gives us a contrast with the male/female
relationships in the Achaean camp, where women like Briseis and Chryseis
are objects of barter and prizes of honor. It also contrasts with the unhappy
relationship between Hector’s brother Paris and his reluctant ‘wife’ Helen,
who is compelled by Aphrodite to stay with Paris.
III. CLASSICS IN OUR WORLD
Students will briefly explain 1) the modern meaning, 2) the ancient
concept/story behind the ‘Classics in Our World’ words that students
have presented to date, and 3) write a sentence using the modern
meaning of the word, to show an understanding of the relation between the
modern meaning and its ancient origin. [Students will write on two
out of four.] 20%
amazon
ambrosia, ambrosial
apple of discord
Athenaeum
boustrophedon
Cassandra
chaos
demon
echo
Platonic Love
Pyrrhic Victory
stygian
Example of minimum answer: Nestor: 1) Definition: A wise old
man 2) Ancient Concept/Story: Old man in the Iliad. 3) Sentence:
Dr. Levine is a Nestor.
Example of a more complete answer: Nestor: 1) Definition: A
venerable and wise old man who talks a lot. 2) Ancient Concept/Story: In
the Iliad, Nestor makes long speeches and tells his fellow heroes
of his many exploits in the past. He rules over a third generation of men.
He attempts to mediate in the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles (1),
and advises Patroclus to put on Achilles’ armor to help the beleaguered
Achaeans when the Trojans are at the ships. After all, he says, Patroclus
is older, and so Achilles should listen to him. He has a cup that only he
can lift easily (11). 3) Sentence: The landslide reelection of Ronald
Reagan in 1984 (when he was 73 years old) can be partially attributed to
the fact that many Americans saw him as the Nestor of American politics
— due to his long political experience and his words that were, like Nestor’s
‘sweeter than honey.’
IV. SLIDES
Students will look at slides and explain the items portrayed. These
may include slides of what we have already seen, and slides of unseen material.
The material will relate to Biers’ The Archaeology of Greece, and
the Iliad. Students will identify the subject of the images and
use relevant terminology to describe them. This can include identification
of the period, and description of the use, significance, and material, as
relevant.
For example, if the slide shows a Minoan fresco of dolphins from the
Palace at Knossos, students will explain what a fresco is, where this one
was found, what its subject is, the date of the Minoan era (Bronze Age,
2nd millennium BCE), the Minoan love of decoration and depictions of nature,
and the particular importance of marine motifs for the Minoans. [Students
will write on three slides]. 20%
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