L12
Terms
- Arian Christian
- Theodoric
- The City of God
- Augustine
- dome on squinches
- San Vitale
- Greek for “Holy Wisdom”
- Hagia Sophia
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Justinian:
supervised a much needed revision and codification of Roman law
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true
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Justinian:
along with his wife Theodora took a keen interest in Christian theology and ecclesiastical governance
- true
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Justinian:
funded the building of both Hagia Sophia and San Vitale
- true
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Augustine:
lived at a time when the Byzantine Empire was on the verge of collapse
- false
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Augustine:
argued that God did not direct the order of human events because God, being holy, could not be involved with a fallen and sinful world
- false
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Augustine:
concurred with the Stoic view of history as cyclical
- false
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The Confessions:
show how and what to love
- true
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The Confessions:
include an incident with a pear tree demonstrating the thrill of doing evil for evil’s sake alone
- true
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The Confessions:
describe how difficult it was for Augustine to decide between marrying a Christian girl or marrying and
hoping to convert the pagan mistress he truly loved and had lived with for years before his conversion - false
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Early Christian artists working on the interiors of Ravenna’s churches:
chose to decorate with mosaics rather than frescoes because of Ravenna’s close proximity to the sea
- false
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Early Christian artists working on the interiors of Ravenna’s churches:
depicted processions of martyrs as well as a beardless Christ
- true
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Early Christian artists working on the interiors of Ravenna’s churches:
depicted the emperor Justinian as the representative of Christ on earth, with his power balancing both
church and state - true
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Byzantine architects:
used light in their churches as the symbol of divine wisdom, the light of heaven where the faithful would
be bathed in the actual light of God - true
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Byzantine architects:
devised new ways to create a larger dome than the Pantheon in Rome
- true
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Byzantine architects:
combined the basilica plan with the domed central plan in designing Hagia Sopia
- true