22. Compare Greek ideas of the future life with those of the Babylonians.
23. Why has the Delphic oracle been called "the common hearth of Hellas"?
24. What resemblances do you discover between the Olympian festival and one of our great international expositions?
25. Define and illustrate these terms: monarchy; aristocracy; tyranny; democracy.
26. Why are the earliest laws always unwritten?
27. What differences existed between Phoenician and Greek colonization?
28. Why did the colonies, as a rule, advance more rapidly than the mother country in wealth and population?
29. What is the origin of the modern city of Constantinople? of Marseilles? of Naples? of Syracuse in Sicily?
FOOTNOTES
[1] Webster, Readings in Ancient History, chapter iii, "Early Greek
Society as Pictured in the Homeric Poems"; chapter iv, "Stories from Greek
Mythology"; chapter v, "Some Greek Tyrants"; chapter vi, "Spartan
Education and Life."