WGU C100 - Study Guide questions and
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Humanities ✔✔study of humans, their culture and ideas.
Eros ✔✔erotic love
agape ✔✔platonic love
Myth ✔✔traditional stories of a people or culture that server to
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WGU C100 - Study Guide questions and
answers 100% pass
Humanities ✔✔study of humans, their culture and ideas.
Eros ✔✔erotic love
agape ✔✔platonic love
Myth ✔✔traditional stories of a people or culture that server to explain some natural phenomenon,
the origin of humanity, or customs or religious rites
Aesthetic Experience ✔✔an experience of beauty that inspires a feeling of pleasure which is its
own justification
Beauty ✔✔qualities that give pleasure to the senses. might be found (for example) in nature, the
human face, a musical composition, or customs or religious rites.
Archetype ✔✔age-old models by which we comprehend human experience
Classical Period Major Themes ✔✔Balance
Truth/Reason
Democracy/Republic
Polytheism
Humanism
Homer wrote: ✔✔Iliad and Odyssey
Sappho wrote: ✔✔A Lament for Adonis
Sophocles wrote: ✔✔Oedipus Rex
Aristophanes wrote ✔✔Lysistrata (women who withheld sex from their husbands to end conflict)
Kouros ✔✔an archaic Greek statue of a young man, standing and often naked.
Renaissance Period Major Themes ✔✔Rebirth of Classicism
Humanism
Rationalism/Scientific Expansion
Expansion of University System
Individualism/Self-Fashioning
Reformation
Rebirth of Classicism ✔✔embraced the following concepts:
1. humanism
2. reason, rationalism, and scientific expansion
3. balance
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote ✔✔The Prince
Baldassare Castiglione wrote ✔✔The Courtier
Advances in Renaissance Art ✔✔linear perspective, vanishing points, and chiaroscuro
Chairoscuro ✔✔the creation go the illusion of depth through gradations of light and shade.
Madrigal ✔✔A polyphonic vocal work, usually written for four or five voices, setting a pastoral
poem to music, performed without instrumental accompaniment, and intended for secular use.
Renaissance Man ✔✔a term describing an individual with broad knowledge and versatile talents
spanning many intellectual and artistic disciplines
The Enlightenment/Neoclassical Period Major Themes ✔✔Skepticism
Rationalism
Empiricism
Order
Deism
Classicism
Skepticism ✔✔A philosophy which suggests that nothing can ever be known for certain.
Rationalism ✔✔A point of view
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