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The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Classical and Hellenistic Greece

Essay Quiz



1

How does the civilization of fifth-and fourth-century Athens compare with our own? In which would you rather live? Why?

2

"Whether or not Alexander had high ideals behind his conquests, he and his followers should be praised, for they infused relatively backward civilizations with more advanced Greek institutions and ideals." Do you agree? Why?

3

"It is a mistake to be so admiring of the ancient Greeks. We think highly of their civilization only because it resembles our own in some ways, and we overlook the fact that it was based upon slave labor, the subjection of women, and almost perpetual warfare." Do you agree? Why?









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