If you'd like to print out this page, click the Print button above. Alternatively, you may click the printer icon on your browser's toolbar, or choose File>Print from the menu.     1. What public purposes were Greek Art and Literature intended to serve: Your answer should include the following points: Architecture served public through temples built to the gods who protected the polis or to house the oracles. Literature through drama (plays) served public History as a branch of literature served the public by preserving the memory of the past. 2. What fundamental questions raised by ancient Greek philosophers remain important today? Your answer should include the following points: Questions on logic, epistemology, (how we know what we know) and physics Can our physical senses be trusted? Can we understand the world only through the intellect? 3. How did the Hellenistic age achieve the partial integration of Greek and non-Greek culture in both politics and thought? Your answer should include the following points: The Greeks were borrowers absorbing the ideas and beliefs of others. When the Greeks expanded their territories they adopted elements from every ancient culture and incorporated them into their own. Hellenistic age inherited this. 4. What was the basis of the conflict between Judaism and Hellenism? Your answer should include the following points: A life lived according to the divinely revealed law (Judaism) was incompatible with the Greek love of speculation and with aesthetic standards of beauty of nature and perfection of human body.