Author Question: Considered the father of history, ________ was the first to attempt to explain human actions in ... (Read 59 times)

debasdf · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

A genre of poetry called ________ gave a comic-realistic depiction of daily life, turning the attention away from the weakened structure of the polis.

A. Middle Comedy
B. Old Comedy
C. narrative
D. haiku
E. epic

Question 2

In 399 b.c.e., an Athenian jury condemned ________ to death on the charges of bringing new gods into the city and of corrupting the youth.

A. Euripides
B. Plato
C. Socrates
D. Aristotle
E. Philip of Macedon

Question 3

Considered the father of history, ________ was the first to attempt to explain human actions in history and to draw instruction from them.

A. Thucydides
B. Croesus
C. Anaxagoras
D. Herodotus
E. Pericles