CVSP 201 Final, Fall 2002

CVSP 201 (section 13) 31 January, 2003 fascine yeieenery fhe Ce NE Mark Bayer LIBKARY OF BEIRUT FINAL EXAMINATION PARTI Define four of the following terms or concepts (2.5 marks each for a total of ten) EPIC ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE ORAL TRADITON SOCRATIC METHOD CARPE DIEM 2) Tragedy. . .openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue [and] teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations gilden roofs are builded. Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry (1582) Discuss the above quotation describing the cultural logic of tragedy with reference to the two tragedies we’ve encountered in this course, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid (The Dido episode). As always, be sure to back up your general claims with evidence from the text. 3) The goods which define our spiritual [or philosophical] orientation are the ones by which we will measure the worth of our lives; the two issues are indissolubly linked because they relate to the same core.