Cultural Legacy of Ancient Greece - Case Study Example

1. Whose policy was that, “if women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same nurture and education.” (Plato et al., pp.13) Answer:Plato 2. Which scholar in ancient Greece stood for educating men and women together? (Powell, 2001, pp.353). Answer: Plato 3. Who was the Greek scholar who thought that truth could be attained through “a process of dialectic within the individual consciousness”? (Davidson, 2005, pp. 162) Answer: Plato 4. Who was the ancient Greek scholar who lived in Athens but supported the educational system of Sparta, the rival country? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp. 113-114) Answer: Plato 5. Who was the ancient Greek philosopher who said that the population of a state must be limited to “11080 men and the same number of women, all excess being guarded against either by exposing of infants or transporting adults into colonies”? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.114) Answer: Plato 6. Who was the ancient Greek scholar who objected to teaching children, works of Homer, the classical tragedies, and folk tales by saying that they would impart “base and immoral views of the Gods and their relation to men”? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.123) Answer: Plato 7. Which ancient Greek scholar first put forth the theory that gymnastic training was a training to form the character rather than the physique of the trainee? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.126) Answer: Plato 8. Which ancient Greek philosopher called music, “an engine of education”? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.128) Answer: Plato 9. Who was the founder of philosophical schools in Athens? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.136) Answer: Plato 10. Who was the ancient Greek scholar who said “education of the body must precede that of the mind”? (Plato et al., 1996, pp.44) Answer: Plato 11. Which scholar had criticized that Spartans gave an education which made their “children bestial through… (suffering),… with the aim of producing manly courage”? (Powell, 2001, pp.233). Answer: Aristotle 12. Who was the ancient Greek scholar who initiated the “method of induction” which became the theoretical base for all sciences? (Davidson, 2005, pp.162) Answer: Aristotle 13. Who was the Greek scholar and philosopher who taught Alexander the great? (Davidson, 2005, pp.156) Answer: Aristotle 14. Who was the Greek scholar who fled Athens to the country side to escape his persecutors, saying that he would not allow “Athenians to sin a second time against philosophy,” referring to the cruelty imparted to Socrates earlier? (Davidson, 2005, pp.159). Answer: Aristotle 15. Who was the ancient Greek scholar who taught his disciples while walking? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.151) Answer: Aristotle 16. Who was the ancient Greek philosopher who added drawing to the educational curriculum of Greek society which had until then only three components, literacy, music and gymnastics? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.52-53) Answer: Aristotle 17. Which ancient Greek scholar said that education has to be imparted to a student from the earliest youth “to feel pleasure and pain at the right things”? (Plato et al., 1996, pp.38) Answer: Aristotle 18. Which ancient Greek scholar said that “since the state as a whole has a single end, it is plain that the education of all must be one and the same”? (Plato et al., 1996, pp.42) Answer: Aristotle 19. Which ancient Greek scholar prescribed ‘Dorian’ as the most appropriate scale for teaching music as part of education and said that flutes should not be used in teaching the same? (Plato et.al., 1996, pp.49) Answer: Aristotle 20. Who was the ancient Greek scholar who said, “education ought certainly not to be turned into a means of amusement”? (Davidson, 2005, pp.5) Answer: Aristotle 21. In which ancient Greek country, it was compulsory for boys from the age of seven up to the age of eighteen, to have formal education? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.83). Answer: Sparta 22. Which country in ancient Greece had coined a terminology for its educational system with words referring to cattle rearing metaphors? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.83). Answer: Sparta 23. Which country in ancient Greece has been accused of following totalitarian social engineering in education by historians? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.84). Answer: Sparta 24. In which ancient Greek state could we find a home that “enjoyed the greatest honour and sanctity and the house-mother stood highest in reverence and social importance, and where violations of fidelity were rarest”? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.121) Answer: Sparta 25. In which country, Athens or Sparta, was physical training a significant part of primary education? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.86). Answer: Sparta 26. In which country of ancient Greece, was boys who attained the age of twelve, were compulsorily made to take an older male lover, as a mentor in their education? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.87). Answer: Sparta 27. Which ancient Greek country had theft as a subject of learning in its educational system? (Powell, 2001, pp.235). Answer: Sparta 28. History of which country does an “austere and self-denying mode of life” and “a tough and …brutal” education refers to? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.80). Answer: Sparta 29. Which country in ancient Greece had given women the best provisions regarding equal status with men in education? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.110-111). Answer: Sparta 30. Which was the ancient Greek state, the education system of which was criticized by many for not producing, “a poet, an historian, an artist, or a philosopher”? (Davidson, 2005, pp.44) Answer: Sparta 31. In which ancient Greek state, it was compulsory to have an academic degree to have citizenship? (Davidson, 2005, pp.64) Answer: Athens 32. In which country of ancient Greece, was the education of a woman thought totally unnecessary and “to see, hear and say as little as possible” was considered as the foremost virtue of a woman? (Powell, 2001, pp.352). Answer: Athens 33. In which country was the education up to the age of eighteen an entirely private affair, paid for by parents but not a legally binding responsibility for the same? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.81) Answer: Athens 34. In which country of ancient Greece, learning music was considered as a basic social skill for a boy? (Cartledge, 2003, pp.82). Answer: Athens 35. In which ancient Greek country, the constant supply of slaves had an impact on the education of women? (Powell, 2001, pp.356). Answer: Athens 36. In which ancient Greek country, was the care of each child enrolled for primary education, entrusted to a particular slave? (Davidson, 2005, pp.68) Answer: Athens 37. In which ancient Greek nation, music and poetry were taught as part of moral and intellectual instruction in schools? (Davidson, 2005, pp.73) Answer: Athens 38. In which ancient Greek country, professional skill in music was considered “unworthy of a free man and a citizen” and as only suiting “slaves or foreigners”? (Davidson, 2005, pp.75) Answer: Athens 39. In which ancient Greek country, was the concept of harmony the basic principle on which the whole education system was built? (Davidson, 2005, pp.91) Answer: Athens 40. In which ancient Greek city did Plato and Aristotle work together? (Mahaffy, 2010, pp.136) Answer: Athens 41. Which was the ancient Greek state which kept role of family and state in the area of education, strictly apart, fearing that any merger would hamper the freedom of the individual? (Davidson, 2005, pp.63) Answer: Athens References Cartledge, P. (2003) Spartan reflections, California: University of California Press. Davidson, T, (2005) Aristotle and ancient educational ideas, Montana: Kessinger Publishing. Mahaffy, J.P., Sir, (2010) Old Greek Education, READ Books. Plato et.al., (1996), Education: ends and means, Lanham: University Press of America. Powell, A. (2001) Athens and Sparta: constructing Greek political and social history from 478 BC, London: Routledge. Read More