How do the two philosophers and the dog walk πρὸς τὴν ἀγορὰν?
Hastily
Pleasantly
Grumpily
In single file
Being similar to a teacher, what does Socrates like to do?
Make his student Alcibiades stand in the corner.
Sit at home and work.
Listen to the opinion (ἡ γνώμη) of his pupil, Alcibiades.
Walk about talking, peripatetically.
Being similar to a student, what does Alcibiades like to do?
Talk to despondent girls by the roadside.
Listen to the wise Socrates.
Debate with Xanthippe.
Memorise noun declensions.
Whom do they see walking along the road?
Sailors.
Pericles, the Foster parent of Alcibiades.
An angry mother holding jar-shards.
Xanthippe.
Where are the sailors heading?
To Sparta, an ally in need of naval assistance.
To the ἀγορά, for food and debate.
To the Piraeus, the famed harbour of the Athenian Empire.
To prison, on charges of desertion.
Why are the sailors heading to the Piraeus?
To flee the rapidly approaching enemy.
To look for the newly-built gymnasium.
To swim with the Lakedaimonioi.
To hone their rowing skills.
In the opinion (ἡ γνώμη) of the sailors, who is chiefly to blame for the current political situation?
Cleon, the populist orator.
Pericles, the radical democrat.
Aspasia, the woman behind Pericles, the radical democrat.
Socrates, the gadfly of the Athenian state.
What outcome to the war do these sailors predict?
A lasting truce will be signed by Nicias.
They will defeat the militarisitc Spartans.
Athens will devolve into unprecedented tyranny and the subsequent purges will create a lasting environment of scarcely bridled animosity within the previously open and democratic society.
Persia will join the war to tip the scales for one side...