ANCHS/AMES 021: Greece and Rome

1st (But by no means Last!) Reading/Terms Quiz

Part I: Identify two of these three terms—tell me what or who it is, give me some species of time frame, and what is its significance for the purposes of this class?

Tauron bulla Megara

Part II: Who wrote this? What does it describe, and why do we care?

"And, indeed, one of the Attic writers, perceiving it to be very hard to make an excuse for this, feigns that Aegeus, at the approach of the ship, running hastily to the Acropolis to see what news, slipped and fell down, as if he had no servants, or none would attend him on his way to the shore."