12. Q. What is the name of the dialogue in which Plato tells of the end of Socrates? A. The “Phædo.”
13. Q. What was the sentence of antiquity in regard to Plato? A. That Zeus, if he had spoken Greek, would have spoken it like Plato.
14. Q. Who was a distinguished pupil of Plato? A. Aristotle, and in influence on human thought he equaled and rivaled his master.
15. Q. How does our author state the difference between ancient tragedy and modern, in a single antithetical sentence? A. Modern tragedy presents real life idealized; ancient tragedy presents an ideal life realized.
16. Q. What did Greek tragedy have for its chief purpose? A. To teach.
17. Q. How were Greek tragedies represented? A. By daylight, in the open air, before assemblages that numbered their tens of thousands of spectators.
18. Q. What is said of the dress of the actors? A. The actors wore masks on their faces and buskins on their feet. Beside this they wore a kind of wig designed to make them look taller, and dressed with padding to make them look larger.
19. Q. Who were the three masters of Greek tragedy? A. Æschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
20. Q. When and where was Æschylus born? A. In 525 B. C., in an Attic village near Athens.
21. Q. In the present volume, from what tragedy of Æschylus are selections presented? A. “Prometheus Bound.”