Study Guide: ID Quiz 3

1.Euripides: Dates? Name two common themes in his plays?

2. the Medea: Date of play? Playwright?
3. Medea: Where is she from originally? Who is her husband? Whats he
done to her? What does she do in return?
4. Remember that all these stories (plots of tragedies) are traditional
and anonymous and belong to the realm of myth. So when a
playwright put on a play, most of the audience would be familiar with
the general story line. They were not always concerned with the plot
(the general outlines of which they likely knew), but how the poet
constructed his version. Poets could, however, add elements of their
own to plays, elements that were not traditional; name one such
element of the Medea that Euripides seems to have introduced to the
tradition.
5. Thucydides: Dates? Title of his work? How is his approach to history
different than Herodotus?
6. Peloponnesian War: Dates? Two major protagonists and their
respective forms of government? What brought the war to an end?
7. Delian League: When was it started? Why was it started? What
happened in 454 BCE? What is it called later?
8. Melian Dialogue: In what work is this featured? What exactly is it? To
what event does it refer? What immediately follows it in the text? A
likely reason for this?
9. prophasis: What does this term mean? In what work does it occur?
Where is it normally used?
10. nomos vs. physis: What does each term mean and how does this
opposition feature in the teaching of the sophists?
11. ekkyklema: What is it and what is it used for?
12. deus ex machina: What is it? How is it used in ancient drama?
What play that we have read features this device? How do we use the
term now?