FOA
Week 3
TCAP Review
The Hippocratic Oath
By Hippocrates
The Hippocratic oath describes more than the importance of a physician’s commitment to his or her patient. It also describes the
importance of teaching the medical arts.
1. Why do you think this is so important?
2. Do you think being a teacher of medicine is emphasized today?
The Oath
I SWEAR by Apollo the physician, and AEsculapius, and Health, and All heal, and all the gods and goddesses,
that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and the stipulation-to reckon him who taught me this
Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required: to look
upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it,
without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge
of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to
the law of medicine, but to none others. I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and
judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from what ever is deleterious and mischievous. I will
give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a
woman a pessary to produce abortion. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art. I will not
cut persons laboring under the stone, but will leave this to done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into
whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of
mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freeman and slaves. What ever, In
connection with my professional practice or not, in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not
to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. While I continue to keep
this Oath unviolated, May it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all
times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!!
Pericles’s Funeral Oration
The following excerpt is from a speech by the Athenian leader Pericles
around 431 B.C., after the first battles of the Peloponnesian War. The
speech was given at an Athenian funeral for slain soldiers. It is from an
account by the Greek historian Thucydides. Funerals after the first battles
were public rituals in Athens. Pericles used the occasion to make a
statement about the bravery of the soldiers and why it was necessary to
fight for Athenian democracy. The funeral was held during the first winter of
the Peloponnesian War. Pericles’ speech is still widely read today. The
Peloponnesian Was lasted for 27 years.
Directions: Read the following excerpt and think about why Pericles would
remind Athenians, in the first year of the war, why it was important to
defend democracy.
Excerpt from Pericles’s Funeral Oration
Thus choosing to die resisting, rather than to live submitting, they … met danger
face to face …
So died these men as became Athenians. You, their survivors, must determine to
have as unfaltering [loyal] a resolution in the field, though you may pray that it may
have a happier issue. ... [Y]ou must yourselves realize the power of Athens, and …
you must reflect that it was by courage, sense of duty, and a keen feeling of honor
in action that men were enabled to win all this, and that no personal failure in an
enterprise could make them consent to deprive their country of the valor, but they
laid it at her feet as the most glorious contribution that they could offer. For this
offering of their lives … they each of them individually received … [the] noblest of
shrines wherein their glory is laid up to be eternally remembered upon every
occasion on which deed or story shall call for its commemoration. … These take as
your model and, judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valor,
never decline the dangers of war.
1. What did Pericles say the slain men had met face-to-face?
2. Is Pericles proud of the men for dying in battle? Why or why not?
3. Why do you think Pericles reminded Athenians during the first year of war of
the importance in fighting for Athenian democracy?
Alexander the Great: Hero or Villain?
1. According to the reading, how many captives did
Alexander take at Tyre?
2. What did Alexander do with the women and
children of Tyre?
3. Were the Tyrians brave or cowardly? Support
your answer with evidence from the reading.
Day 1
Alexander the Great: Hero or Villain?
1. Why do some historians refer to Alexander as “Great”?
2. Do Alexander’s actions in Tyre change your opinion of him
as a great leader? Why or why not?
Day 2
Julius Caesar
1. What does Brutus say would have happened if the
senators had not killed Caesar?
2. What did Caesar refuse three times?
Day 1
Julius Caesar
1. What is Antony asking the people of Rome to do?
2. After reading both speeches, do you think the
senators’ actions were justified? Why or why not?
Day 2