AHS

Classics
Midterm Exam Name, Surname:
Nino Lobzhanidze
(max. grades-80)
Class: X
Date: 24.03.21
II version
Choose the correct answer(s) and comment the context :( 60)
1. What did Socrates want to study from Euthyphro? (5):
a) Philosophy c) Piety

b) Poetry d) Justice

Comment: (10)

In Euthyphro (Plato’s work), Socrates meets Euthyphro, who wants to torture his father, because he
blames him for committing a murder. Socrates tells Euthyphro that he must know piety. Euthyphro
agrees and Socrates teaches him about piety.

2. He thinks that the whole universe is based on Eros (5):

a) Socrates c) Crito

b) Alcibiades d) Eryximachus

Comment (10):

In Symposium (Plato’s work), Eryximachus tells a speech about love, he believes that everything is
created on love, he says that love is expressed in physical responses including of all plants and animals,
love rules all universe.

3. What did Socrates want to say with this phrase: “What is agreeable to Zeus but disagreeable to
Cronos or Uranus” (5):
a) The gods are crazy c) The gods have different opinions

b) The gods do not exist d) The gods hate each other

Comment (10):

In Euthyphro (Plato’s work), Euthyphro teaches Socrates about piety and he tells Socrates that holy
things are willing to gods. Socrates replies that gods have different opinions, not all of them agree with
each other.

4. Why did Socrates have no fear of death?

a) His life is worse than death c) His family is in danger

b) He wants to sacrifice his life to Greece d) He believes that his soul is immortal

Comment (10):

In Phaedo (Plato’s work), Socrates talks about death, before he dies himself from the poison. He
mentions that for philosopher’s death isn’t scary, so he is not afraid of it himself, because soul is
immortal and through dying, they get wisdom.

III. Speech of Phaedrus (Plato, Symposium-Summary) (20)

In Platos symposium, in the speech of Phaedrus, he first describes love as a great god, whose
developing nature gifts him priority over other deities. Being in love, is good for one person because it
causes to feel shame at disgraceful behavior and pride in good behavior. On the battlefield, Phaedrus
suggests, a man would rather die than abandon his lover. love makes men courageous even when they
are not naturally brave.

Phaedrus continues his speech with examples of famous Greeks who virtuously died for love. The
princess Alcestis, he says, willingly took the place of her husband Admetus when the Fates decreed his
death; not even his parents loved him enough to do this. he reminds us that, Achilles died avenging his
lover Patroclus in the Trojan War. These acts of courage, Phaedrus concludes, prove that love brings out
the best in human nature.