Who was tyrant at Athens on three different occasions?
Question 2
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Put the following figures in chronological order from OLDEST TO MOST RECENT
Question 3
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Identify the speaker:
“I rescued men from shattering destruction that would have carried them to Hades’ house and therefore I am tortured on this rock, a bitterness to suffer, and piteous to see. I gave priority to mortals in pity, but found none of it for myself.”
Question 4
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Who held tyranny over Samos and became “the talk of Ionia and the rest of Greece” because of his naval successes?
Question 5
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Who is credited with reforming Athens’ government in the year 508/7 BCE?
Question 6
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Who guided the Persians to Marathon in 490 BCE?
Question 7
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Whom does Herodotus defend against accusations of treason following the battle of Marathon?
Question 8
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For the following passage, (1) identify the speaker and addressee, (2) identify the context, (3) explain the significance of the passage:
“From wicked men advising thus, young Xerxes eagerly learned; they said you acquired great wealth by warfare, while he, in cowardice, played the warrior at home, and multiplied by nothing his ancestral wealth.”
Question 9
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For the following passage, (1) identify the author, (2) explain the reference to “both sides,” (3) explain the significance of the passage:
“The commons I have granted privilege enough, not lessening their estate nor giving more; the influential, who were envied for their wealth, I have saved them from all mistreatment too. I took my stand with strong shield covering both sides, allowing neither unjust dominance.”
Question 10
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Whom does Herodotus credit with sending the following message, what event is alluded to by “on your account,” and what is the significance of the passage?
“Men of Ionia, it is wrong that you should make war upon your fathers and help to bring Greeks into subjection. The best thing you can do is to join our side … If you are held by a compulsion so strong that it puts desertion out of the question, … in the next battle, remember that you and we are of the same blood, that our quarrel with Persia arose originally on your account – and fight badly.”
Question 11
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For the following passage, (1) identify the speaker of this prediction, (2) identify the context, (3) explain the significance of the passage in this work:
“Still the fount of evils is not quenched. It wells up and overflows: so great will be the sacrificial cake of clotted gore made at Plataea by the Dorian spear. And corpses, piled up like sand, shall witness mute, even to generations to come, before the eyes of men, that never, being mortal, ought we to cast our thoughts too high.”
Question 12
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For the following passage, (1) identify the Spartan speaker and the addressee, (2) identify the context, (3) explain the significance of the passage in this work:
“So it is with the Spartans; fighting singly, they are as good as any, but fighting together they are the best soldiers in the world. They are free – yes – but not entirely free; for they have a master, and that master is Law, which they fear much more than your subjects fear you.”
Question 13
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For the following passage, (1) identify the speaker and addressee, (2) identify the context, (3) explain the significance of the passage in this work:
“You have suffered terribly. Bewildered in your mind you are astray, and like a bad doctor who has fallen sick, you have lost heart not finding by what drugs your own illness might be cured. … don’t help mortals beyond due occasion while careless of yourself in your own troubles.”
Question 14
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Identify the context and significance of the following passage from Herodotus:
“Thus Athens went from strength to strength, and proved, if proof were needed, how noble a thing equality before the law is, not in one respect only, but in all; for while they were oppressed under tyrants, they had no better success in war than any of their neighbors, yet, once the yoke was flung off, they proved the finest fighters in the world.”
Question 15
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Identify the addressee, context, and significance of the following passage from Herodotus:
“The Athenians have sent us to tell you that the Persian king has offered both to restore our country to us, and at the same time, not only to make an alliance with us on fair and equal terms, openly and honestly, but also to give us any other territory we like to annex.”
Question 16
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Based on the following passage and our other readings, why does Herodotus privilege the role of Athens in the Greco-Persian Wars? What differences, if any, do you think Herodotus sees between the Athenians and Spartans? Why do you think Herodotus believes that most people will object to his view?
“I find myself compelled to express an opinion which I know most people will object to; nevertheless, as I believe it to be true, I will not suppress it. If the Athenians, through fear of the approaching danger, had abandoned their country, of if they had stayed there and submitted to Xerxes, there would have been no attempt to resist the Persians by sea; and, in the in absence of a Greek fleet, it is easy to see what would have been the course of events on land. … Thus the Spartans would have been left alone – to perform great deeds and to die nobly.”