CLST 101 PRACTICE STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ Euphiletus. Answer: means "beloved," kills Eratosthenes claiming
that Erat was seducing Euph's wife. portrays self as naive and too
trusting
◉ Eratosthenes. Answer: means "vigerous in love," seduces
Euphiletus' wife, Euph says that Erat does this as a career
◉ Lysias. Answer: writes "on the murder of eratosthenes" lawyer
type? speech writer? no one knows
◉ parthenos vs. gyne. Answer: virgin/unmarried vs. woman/wife --
> you become a woman once you are married
◉ justifiable homicide. Answer: grants immunity to a killer
specifically here a male family member or husband caught another
man in the act with the woman under their guardianship; euphiletus
says that he killed eratosthenes not out of passion but only doing
what the law mandated
, ◉ Oeconomicus Background. Answer: socratic dialogue, written by
xenophon in 362 BC, conversation between socrates and isomachus
about wives - main theme: desire to regulate women, isomachus has
relatively fair treatment of his wife: reaction is astoundment by
socrates
◉ xenophon. Answer: author of oeconomicus, athenian,
contemporary of socrates and plato,
◉ Aristotle. Answer: student of Plato, 382-322 BC, writes politics
◉ Politics. Answer: written by Aristotle, why slavery is natural
(intended at birth- body types, mind/soul relation to body)
◉ Man is a Political Animal. Answer: Aristotle Politics, if a person is
not a part of a city they are either a beast or a god, the polis is prior
◉ telos. Answer: end state, achieved boulesis (agency, capacity to
deliberate and make own decisions): difference btw women,
children, slaves, city-state is end state
◉ "There is no greater benefit for a young man than a good lover
and none greater for a lover than a good boyfriend". Answer:
Phaedrus in the Symposium. Says that love promotes virtue in
people (Achilles and Patroclus)
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ Euphiletus. Answer: means "beloved," kills Eratosthenes claiming
that Erat was seducing Euph's wife. portrays self as naive and too
trusting
◉ Eratosthenes. Answer: means "vigerous in love," seduces
Euphiletus' wife, Euph says that Erat does this as a career
◉ Lysias. Answer: writes "on the murder of eratosthenes" lawyer
type? speech writer? no one knows
◉ parthenos vs. gyne. Answer: virgin/unmarried vs. woman/wife --
> you become a woman once you are married
◉ justifiable homicide. Answer: grants immunity to a killer
specifically here a male family member or husband caught another
man in the act with the woman under their guardianship; euphiletus
says that he killed eratosthenes not out of passion but only doing
what the law mandated
, ◉ Oeconomicus Background. Answer: socratic dialogue, written by
xenophon in 362 BC, conversation between socrates and isomachus
about wives - main theme: desire to regulate women, isomachus has
relatively fair treatment of his wife: reaction is astoundment by
socrates
◉ xenophon. Answer: author of oeconomicus, athenian,
contemporary of socrates and plato,
◉ Aristotle. Answer: student of Plato, 382-322 BC, writes politics
◉ Politics. Answer: written by Aristotle, why slavery is natural
(intended at birth- body types, mind/soul relation to body)
◉ Man is a Political Animal. Answer: Aristotle Politics, if a person is
not a part of a city they are either a beast or a god, the polis is prior
◉ telos. Answer: end state, achieved boulesis (agency, capacity to
deliberate and make own decisions): difference btw women,
children, slaves, city-state is end state
◉ "There is no greater benefit for a young man than a good lover
and none greater for a lover than a good boyfriend". Answer:
Phaedrus in the Symposium. Says that love promotes virtue in
people (Achilles and Patroclus)
