Ancient Greek History Glossary
Type your answers into the document below each question and upload your completed exercise to Quercus as a word document or pdf before midnight (EST) on Sunday 24th October.
Late submissions without my prior approval will be accepted until midnight on Wednesday 27th October but will be subject to a LATE PENALTY deduction of 1.5% of the course mark every 24 hours (i.e. submissions on Monday will lose 1.5%, submissions on Tuesday with lose 3%, submissions on Wednesday will lose 4.5%)
• If you are practising writing under exam conditions (which I recommend), you should spend roughly 15 mins answering each Key Source so that you complete the work in 1 ½ hours (increase this amount of time in line with your own AccessAbility Accommodations). After that you may take as long as you like to check and revise your work, but attempting to write under exam conditions first will prepare you for what to expect in the Final Exam.
There are 6 Key Sources which have been discussed in the lectures and the course reading and which all raise important issues about the Greek world of the time in which they were made.
For the first Key Source I will ask prompt questions which should guide you through the process of writing about the Key Source. Answer each question with a sentence or two.
Then for the following 5 Key Sources, you should write a paragraph or two to address the same sort of issues. Obviously, the questions are not exactly the same in each case, but you should think about the same main issues:
What is it?
When is it from?
Where is it from (or where was it set up)?
Why? That is, what does it tell us about the ancient Greeks and what wider issues does it raise (N.B. sometimes it can raise complications in the traditional and straightforward narrative)? There will always be several points to make here to put the source in context and explain its significance.
A mark will be awarded for clarity of expression in answering these five sources.
Key Source 1:
(modern digital reconstruction)
Answer all the following questions related to this source using a sentence or two. Note the number of points for each question – these give you an indication of how many points you should make in your answer.
1. What? Give a description of this object including its materials and any identifying marks. (3 marks)
2. When? When was it created? (1 mark)
3. Where? Where was it set up – be specific? (2 marks)
4. Where? Where is it now and why? (2 marks)
5. Why (Context/Significance)? What was its primary/traditional purpose (think about the location)? (1 mark)
6. Why (Context/Significance)? Why was the location where it was set up particularly appropriate? (1 mark)
7. Why (Context/Significance)? What did it celebrate? (1 mark)
8. Why (Context/Significance)? What did it symbolise (think what made it different from earlier monuments of a similar type)?
