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CLAS 104 Exam PASSED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers On what sort of study did Joseph Campbell base his understanding of the nature of myths? - Correct Answer- comparative mythology What was the most common way the ancient Greeks treated their myths when those myths began to offend their ...

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On what sort of study did Joseph Campbell base his understanding of the nature of myths? -
Correct Answer- comparative mythology


What was the most common way the ancient Greeks treated their myths when those myths
began to offend their sensibilities? - Correct Answer- allegorized them


What does the name "Prometheus" mean? - Correct Answer- foresight


What was the first known Greek civilization? - Correct Answer- Mycenaean


which one of the following Titans did not fight with their brothers and sisters in the
Titanomachy? - Correct Answer- oceanus


when did the historical fall of troy occur - Correct Answer- 1200 BC


According to Hesiod's Theogony, who was the mother of the goddess Athena? - Correct
Answer- Metis


Which one of the following ancient philosophers thought that the traditional myths corrupted
morality, such that he wrote new, philosophical myths. - Correct Answer- Plato


What approach did Euhemerus take to the ancient myths? - Correct Answer- The myths are
stories of ancient kings which were exaggerated over time until the kings became gods


What view of the creation of the world did Homer seem to have? - Correct Answer- The
world came about from the water deities Oceanus and Tethys


Which Roman writer wrote the epic account of the origins of Rome called the Aeneid? -
Correct Answer- Vergil

, Which ancient writer, author of the Metamorphoses, is the single most important Roman
source for classical mythology? - Correct Answer- Ovid


According to class lectures, which one of the following was NOT one of the primeval
elements in Hesiod's version of creation. - Correct Answer- Heaven, Ouranos


Who introduced the idea that dreams and myths were the projection of what he called the
"collective unconscious" based on archetypal characters and narrative patterns. - Correct
Answer- Carl Jung


What heavenly entity does the goddess Eos represent? - Correct Answer- Dawn


Which Greek author wrote at around the same time as Homer? - Correct Answer- Hesiod


What deity arose from the genitals of Ouranos? - Correct Answer- Aphrodite


Which one of the following ancient philosophers thought that mythology was more
philosophical than history and that mythology was based on a sense of wonder just like
philosophy? - Correct Answer- Aristotle


Who threatens the world order of Zeus in Ovid's Metamorphoses? - Correct Answer-


what important insight about the understanding of myth was put forward by Walter Burkert? -
Correct Answer- Myths are best understood as stories which develop over time to
accomodate changing cultural realities.


What were the stages of humanity, in order, according to Hesiod's Theogony? - Correct
Answer- Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroes, Iron


In Ovid's version of the ages of humankind which seems to be the greatest evil which
corrupted the people of the Age of Iron? - Correct Answer- Mining of gold, which fostered
greed


In Greco-Roman myths of the underworld, what river do souls usually drink from before they
are reincarnated? - Correct Answer- Lethe

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