LIBA 202- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Liberal arts was considered essential for a free person. Seven disciplines in liberal arts divided into two parts: trivium & quadrivium. Trivium arts (core): humanities; grammar (latin), logic and rhetoric. Quadrivium: scientific; astronomy (most difficult and complex), math, music, geometry. 400 bc - great victory in the straits of salamis. 27 bc - year the roman empire was created. 476 ad - fall of western roman empire. 800 ad - coronation of charlemagne as holy roman emperor. 1453 ad - fall of constantinople/ eastern roman empire. The first three speeches (phaedrus, pausanias and eryximachus) There is no distinction between form and content. Symposium (sym; together + posium; to drink) - a social gathering between male citizens with the intent of drinking. The women"s job was to entertain the male citizens. However, in plato"s dialogue the symposium they were not going to drink because they are already hung over. It becomes a dry symposium (quite an oxymoron).
