NAME: CASTRO, AXLE ROSE V.

SUBJECT:Lit 02
SECTION :BSMT/3-1/ Charlie DATE: 10/21/2021

Module: 1
ACTIVITY I:
Essay: Read and answer the following questions.
1. Why did the Corinthians prepare for war? Against whom?
The initial reason of the war, according to what I recall from the book, was an intervening
Thebes and Sparta in a local struggle in northwest Greece. Sparta's expansionism in Asia
Minor, middle and northern Greece, and even the west was the main source of enmity.
2. The Corcyreans were alarmed by the war preparations of Corinth. Whose help did
the Corcyreans want to gain?
Athens proposed to me just a defensive alliance with Corcyra, in which Athens would only
engage if Corcyra was attacked. If war with Sparta was unavoidable, the Athenians thought
that having Corcyra's navy was preferable to enabling it to fall into the hands of the
Peloponnesian League.
3. What were the two preliminary conditions that the Corcyrean ambassadors said that
they could satisfy?
The Corcyrans have no allies because they do not want to be humiliated. Thuc. aischunesthai
aischunesthai aischunesthai a 1.37. 2 Of course, Thucydides is well aware of the disparity
between outer appearance and inward feelings. His scathing criticisms of Spartan behavior.
4. Why had the Corcyreans never allied themselves with anybody before?
Corcyra would owe Athens money and, as a result, would be extremely loyal. Despite their
neutrality, the Corcyraeans felt that they could be trusted as new partners. An alliance would
not violate the Thirty Years Peace Treaty because Corcyra was a neutral city-state with the
ability to join any alliance.
5. What error of judgement had the Corcyreans made?22
According to what I've read in the book, the Corcyraeans closed their argument by
emphasizing the importance of Athens looking after itself and not showing weakness to its
enemies. When you make concessions to your rivals, they say, you'll regret it later, and the
fewer concessions you make, the safer you'll be.
6. What four reasons did the Corcyrean ambassadors give to explain why the
Athenians should help them?
Athens suggested a defensive alliance with Corcyra, but only if Corcyra was attacked. If a
conflict with Sparta was necessary, the Athenians decided that possessing Corcyra's navy
was preferable to letting the Peloponnesian League have it.
7. According to the Corinthians, why had the Corcyreans followed a “policy of
complete isolation”?
They favored isolation since having witnesses to their activities made them feel embarrassed
(aischunesthai). There are no ongoing bilateral relations between Corcyra and the rest of the
Greek world, according to neither the Corcyraeans nor the Corinthians.
8. Why did the Corinthians have any right to the gratitude to the gratitude of the
Athenians?
A local conflict in northwest Greece, in which Thebes and Sparta intervened, was the initial
cause of the war. The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) saw Sparta gain hegemony over
Athens and its allies, and the Corinthian War followed.
Quiz for Module 1:
Modified True or False.
Write true if the statement is correct, underline the word or phrase that makes then
supply the correct Answer.
True 1. The Greeks depicted their gods as anthropomorphic because they were
attributed with saintly and transcendent qualities.
True 2. The Greeks depicted their gods as having human attributes, indicating the
Greeks’ belief in the power of men.
False 3. The Greeks gods never meddled in the affairs of men or mortals.
False 4. The Greeks gods can show vengeance by interfering in human affairs.
True 5. The Greeks believe that their ill fate is a consequence alone of meddlesome
and interfering gods.
True 6. The Iliad begins in the tenth year of war.
True 7. Alexandros awarded the golden apple, a symbol of beauty to Aphrodite
because this goddess promised him the most beautiful woman in the world for his wife.
True 8. Achilles has a semi-divine origin.
True 9. Vanity, bribery and rivalry are the first human vices committed by the
goddess Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.
True 10. For the duration of the Trojan War, Achilles remained sulking in his tent.

Post-Assessment Test for Prelim

1. The phrase “the glory that was Greece” implies the following except one. Choose that
which does not belong.
a. The accomplishment of ancient Greece in sculpture and architecture.
b. The exceptional attainment of ancient Greece in philosophy and literature.
c. The Greeks pursuit of beauty in all its forms and their passion for democracy.
d. That the Greeks descended from the gods.
2. The slogan “Greece, where it all begin,” used as a tourist come on, perpetuates this
myth about Greece.
a. It is where European civilization begin.
b. It is the home of the gods.
c. It is where all things originated.
d. It appeals to the sensual nature of Greece.
3. Greece has claimed that its ancient classi9cal peoples’ works of art are the best art
are and are unequal as compared to those of other cultures for these reasons, except
one. Choose that which does not belong.
a. Egypt produced an art that was unnatural, stiff in its fixity of expression.
b. Indian art, with its notion of absolute freedom, yielded results that are strange, like the
statue of Siva, who was portrayed with many heads and arms.
c. The Greek statues or sculptures represented perfectly human forms.
d. The Greeks have produced the eight wonders of the world.
4. This is the framework and vision that distinguish the works Greece had produced.
a. Beauty
b. Originality
c. Diversity of talents
d. Intellectual quality
5. Below are great landmarks of classical Greece, except one. Choose that which does
not belong.
a. Leaning Tower of Pisa
b. Parthenon
c. Temple of Delphi
d. Corinth
6. According to a contemporary art critic, this is what makes the painting “Helen of
Troy” by Polygnotus great.
a. The realistic depiction of Trojan War.
b. The eyes of Helen of Troy are so full of life and expressive that one can read the story of
the War through them.
c. The fixity of Greeks’ expression depicting reality.
d. The freedom of the Greeks to portray any topic, particularly war.
7. These are two reasons that mark the divinity o the gods.
a. Their absolute beauty.
b. The perfection of their human form.
c. Their saintliness.
d. Their goodness.
8. This is the mythological cause of the Trojan War.
a. Zeus wanted to solve the problem of overpopulation; thus, he devised this great war that
caused scores of deaths.
b. The selfishness and greed of mortals.
c. The rivalry between the god Apollo and goddess Eris.
d. The abduction of Helen.
9. The Greeks idea of the holiness of the gods was based on this:
a. Their goodness and kindness.
b. Their utter perfection, incapable of any human frailty or weakness.
c. Their enduring and incorruptible beauty and strength.
d. Their saintly qualities.
10. He is an Athenian philosopher and pupil of Socrates who wrote books in the form of
dialogue on the following subjects; truthfulness, right way of living, honesty, juice,
kindness, piety and belief in the immorality of the soul.
a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Democritus
d. Thales