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Question: In Plato’s Crito, is there a valid ‘agreement’ between Socrates and the City of Athens, as Socrates claims? Would such an agreement justify Socrates’ decision?

Answer: In Plato’s Crito, Socrates has been sentenced to death for corrupting the...

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Question: Outline the dominant meanings of leisure activities & public entertainment in the Roman empire including the effectiveness of this discourse.

Answer: Fronto, writing in the second century, stated that Trajan knew that the...

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Question: How valid are the arguments against Athenian democracy presented by the Old Oligarch?

Answer: The Old Oligarch wrote his Constitution of the Athenians towards the end...

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Question: Assess the differences and similarities between the tombs belonging to kings and those of their subjects.

Answer: To first assess the differences and similarities between the tombs of the...

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Question: 1) Explain what is meant by the ‘social shaping’ of technology, using the example of irrigation
2) Give two further examples of technologies applied in the Near East that could be said to have been socially shaped
3) To what extent was the water supply of ancient Greece socially shaped?

Answer: Perhaps the simplest way in which to define the term the “social...

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Question: For what reasons does Cicero think that the state and its laws have come into existence? Do you agree?

Answer: Cicero’s commonwealth represents a natural conclusion to his theory of man; that...

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Question: What can be discovered from Cicero’s correspondence and other writings of the concept of otium (leisure) and the evaluation of its pursuits in the late Republic?

Answer: For Cicero, a man’s otium was simply time spent free from political...

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Question: What kind of Image of Roman Society do we perceive from the story of the Sabine Women?

Answer: The famous story of the Sabine women was told by Livy in...

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Question: What does painted pottery tell us about the importance of myth in archaic society?

Answer: The stories told in myths from archaic Greece are rich in description,...

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Question: What were the main themes of Herodotus’ work? What is Herodotus’ perspective on foreign cultures and history?

Answer: One of the themes that permeates throughout the whole of ‘the Histories’...

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