Exercises on Greece - Classical Period

(Fatec) "The city-state was an object more worthy of devotion than the Olympian gods, made in the image of human barbarians. The human personality, when emancipated, suffers if not found an object more or less worthy of her devotion, outside herself." (Toynbee, Arnold J. HELLENISM, HISTORY OF A CIVILIZATION).

In classical antiquity, city-states represented:

a) a way of territorially guaranteeing the broad participation of the population in Greek political life.

b) a feature of expanding Greek colonies.

c) a way to ensure the political independence of Greek cities from each other.

d) a feature of Hellenistic civilization in the Greek political system.

e) a Hellenistic political institution in the Greek political system.

It was in the classical period of Ancient Greece that the great works in areas such as philosophy, history and theater were written, which would become fundamental for the formation of western culture. Among the Greek authors of the classical period and their respective areas of activity, we can mention:

a) Dante (poetry) and Marcus Aurelius (theater).

b) Plato (philosophy) and Euripides (theatre).

c) Aristotle (theatre) and Homer (poetry).

d) Euripides (philosophy) and Sophocles (history).

e) Herodotus (history) and Virgil (poetry).

(Unesp) Among the legacies of the Greeks of Classical Antiquity that remain in contemporary life, we can mention:

a) the concept of democracy with the participation of the universal vote.

b) the promotion of the spirit of fellowship through sport and games.

c) the idealization and appreciation of manual work in all its dimensions.

d) artistic values ​​as an expression of the religious and Christian world.

e) urban planning according to the standards of acropolis cities.

One ​​of the most iconic events in Classical Greece was the Peloponnesian War, a war fought between the Greek city-states themselves. This war can be studied in detail because one of the participants in it described its history. This participant was:

a) Herodotus

b) Leonidas

c) Thucydides

d) Tacitus

e) Pliny

Letter C

Ancient Greece, in the classical period, was called Hellas. This Hellas was not an empire ruled by a monarch or a sovereign political chief, as it would have been in the Alexandrian period, but rather a set of independent city-states with their own political rules and sociocultural traditions.

Letter B

Plato was one of the main Greek philosophers and founder of the Athenian Lyceum and the so-called “systematic philosophy”. Euripides was one of the main dramatic poets of the classical period, author of plays such as Medea.

Letter B

Sports and games were highly cultivated in Classical Greece. It was in this period that the Olympics were born, which take their name because they were held in the city-state of Olympia. The so-called “Olympic Games” were taken up from the classical tradition, in the 19th century, by Baron de Coubertin.

Letter C

The Athenian Thucydides (460-400 BC) was one of the generals who defended Athens in the so-called Peloponnesian War, which took place against Sparta between 431 and 404 BC. Thucydides immortalized the events of that war in his History of the Peloponnesian War – a classic of historiography that serves as a source of studies on Classical Greece to this day.