Study Guides

​This page contains study guide materials for exam review.

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Invention of the Alphabet - Writing Systems in the West

• Alphabet Study Guide - Guide to key terms and ideas
• Be sure also to review the slides for this module

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The Creation of Literary Culture - Gilgamesh and Iliad

• Iliad Study Guide
• Capsule Summary and Detailed Summaries of Iliad
• ​Be sure also to review the (selected) slides for this module

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Making of History - Herodotus and Thucydides

• Historiography Study Guide
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First Exam

• Sample questions for Iliad and Historiography modules

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Democracy - Pericles, Athens, and Empire

• Democracy  Study Guide
• Be sure also to review the slides for this module - for this module, the images of the slides may be your prompt

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Birth of Drama - Sophocles, Euripides

• Drama  Study Guide
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Origins of Western Philosophy - Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, "Greek Love"

• Philosophy Study Guide
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The archaic funerary statue pictured above is the Phrasikleia Kore, marble with traces of color, created by the artist Aristion of Paros. At left the statue is pictured as found; on right, with the original colors restored. Attic, 550-530 BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Athens, cat. nr. 4889.