Study Guide for Quiz #1

1. Be able to identify the following names or concepts (what writings they appear in, what role they play in those writings, etc.):

	Gilgamesh
	Enkidu
	Shamhat
	Uruk
	Ninsun
	Shamash
	Hawawa
	Eanna
	Bull of Heaven
	Enlil
	Utnapishtim
	Ea
	Homer
	Odysseus
	Poseidon
	Ithaca
	Zeus
	Athena
	Agamemnon
	Cyclops
	Polyphemus
	Telemachus
	Menelaus
	Penelope
	Laertes
	Achaeans
	Antinous
	Troy
	Calypso
	Lotus-eaters
	Apollo
	Argos
	Eumaeus
	Irus
	Sophocles
	Cadmus
	Oedipus
	Creon
	Delphi
	Laius
	Thebes
	Teiresias
	Iocasta
	Polybus
	Corinth
	Glaucon
	Plato
	Socrates
	Athens
	Meletus
	Anytus
	Aristophanes
	Chaerephon
	Echecrates
	Phaedo
	Cebes
	Simmias
	Crito
	Xanthippe
	ethos
	arete
	golden mean
	eudaimonia

The following questions should guide your study. They are not necessarily questions that will be on a quiz.

1. Why did the gods create Enkidu?

2. Why wasn't Enkidu able to defeat Gilgamesh?

3. What were the causes of Enkidu's death?

4. Why was Gilgamesh so grieved about Enkidu's death?

5. Discuss the similarities and differences in the views of immortality found in The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, and Phaedo.

6. What caused a plague to fall on Thebes in Oedipus?

7. Odysseus is usually seen as the hero of The Odyssey, but how might one make an argument that Telemachus and/or Penelope is/are the real hero[es]?

8. Discuss why you think Odysseus gave up immortality from Calypso.

9. Summarize the allegory of the cave. Explain its meaning in light of the Apology and Phaedo.

10. Why was Socrates brought to trial?

11. What did the Oracle at Delphi say about Socrates? Explain in detail how Socrates went about "proving" the Oracle was true.

12. According to Aristotle, what is happiness? How does the good life, doing well and being happy relate to each other? How is his view similar to and different from our modern views about happiness?

13. How does Aristotle's view of the Good compare to Plato's view in the Allegory of the Cave and in Phaedo?

14. Why does Aristotle think that study of the Good is part of Politics?

15. According to Aristotle, what is virtue? How does he come to his view of what the main virtues are.

16. How do we acquire virtue according to Aristotle? Does this seem different than the view of Socrates in Phaedo?

17. Explain Aristotle's notion of the golden mean.  Do you agree with it, why or why not?

18. Why might the golden mean differ between you and another person? Does that make Aristotle's ethics relativistic?

19. [Be able to take some examples of virtues and vices from Aristotle and explain how they relate to one another.]