Question 1 )       Why is the celebrated poet Sappho so extraordinary for this period in Greece?               Question 2         What new architectural form did the Mycenaeans develop to bury their kings?               Question 3         How do Minoan frescoes differ from Egyptian frescoes?                 Question 4         Why are red-figure vases more complicated than black-figure vases to create?                 Question 5         What is the bull associated with in Minoan art?                 Question 6         Why are the more than 100 Aegean islands between mainland Greece and Crete known as the Cyclades?                 Question 7         Why is the palace at Knossos known as the House of the Double Axes?               Question 8         Why were Heinrich Schliemann's discoveries at Hissarlik so astonishing?               Question 9         Why in 508 BCE did Athens turn to a democratic form of government?               Question 10         Why do we think the Cycladic figurines served a mortuary function?                 Question 11         With which cult was drama originally associated?       Question 12         Why does Sophocles' Antigone oppose her uncle, Creon?       Question 13         Why did fifth-century Greeks not see themselves as at the mercy of the gods?       Question 14         What was the primary duty of women in Athenian society?       Question 15         Why were the Greeks faced with rebuilding Athens after 479 BCE?               Question 16         Why was Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos such a sensation?               Question 17         What is the central subject of most Greek tragedies?               Question 18         Why in part did Sparta form its own Peloponnesian League?               Question 19         How did Socrates' view of the good, true, and just disagree with that of the Sophists?               Question 20         Why was Socrates brought to trail and condemned to death?               Question 21         What deeply-seated Roman virtue demanded respect towards the gods, country, and parents?               Question 22         Why did Augustus pass laws forcing citizens to marry and penalizing them for being childless?               Question 23         Why, by the end of the third century, were the Romans justified in feeling politically and culturally threatened by the Christians?               Question 24         Why did Augustus permanently banish the poet Ovid from Rome?               Question 25         According to its founding story, why was Rome named after Romulus, not his twin brother Remus?               Question 26         According to the Roman poet Virgil, to whom do the Romans trace their origin?               Question 27         Why can it be said that in a sense, the Pantheon mirrors the Roman Empire?               Question 28         Why does the Etruscan language present such a problem for translators?               Question 29         Why is Cupid riding a dolphin shown at Augustus's feet on the sculpture Augustus of Primaporta?               Question 30         Why did Virgil compose the Aeneid?                 Question 31         Why did Jesus of Nazareth identify himself as the Messiah?               Question 32         Why had Judaism split into three distinct sects by the early first century CE?               Question 33         What was the occupation of the two men Justinian appointed to design the Hagia Sophia?               Question 34         Which sect is associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls?               Question 35         Why are the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke known as the synoptic gospels?               Question 36         Why is Augustine of Hippo's Confessions particularly noteworthy as a literary work?               Question 37         What promise became the foundation of Christian faith?               Question 38         As explained in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why is Venice home to a vast amount of Byzantine art?               Question 39         Why did Justinian choose the Sinai peninsula as the site for St