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文化课后习题答案 xx 文化 xx 课后习题答案： Division one: Greek culture and Roman culture xx 、xx 文化 Ⅰ.Greek culture xx 文化 1. What are the major elements in European culture? There are two main elements —— the Greco-Roman element and the Judeo-Christian element. 2. What were the main features of ancient Greek society? In Greek society, only adult male citizen had real power and the citizenship was a set of rights which a maninherited from his father. The economy of rested on an immense amount of slave labor. Slaves worked for their masters. The exploitation was a serious social problem. The Greeks loved sports. They often took part in the contests of sports in Olympus Mount, thus Olympic Games came into being. 3. What did Homer do? Why is he important in the history of European literature? He depicted the great Greek men who lived in the period 1200-1100B.C. and wars happening at that time. As an author of epics, he employed fine literary language to describe wars and men, even 文化课后习题答案 though they were dull. He stood in the peek of Greek literature and exerted a great influence on his followers. 4. Who were the outstanding dramatists of ancient ? What important plays did each of them write? Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were three outstanding dramatists of ancient . Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound, Persians, Agamemnon Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Electra, Antigone Euripides: Andromache, Medea, Trojan Women 5. Were there historians then? Who were they? What did each of them write about? Yes, there are. They were Herodotus and Thucydides. Herodotus wrote about the wars between Greeks and Persians. Thucydides wrote about the war between and and between and . 6. Would you say that philosophy was highly developed then?