CLAS 250 Test 2 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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CLAS 250 Test 2 UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Athena (Minerva) - Correct Answer- - Zeus + Metis (Good Council), born from the head of
Zeus assisted by Hephaestus
- Goddess of wisdom, war, and crafts
- Founder of Athens (Attica)
- Helped in building the Argo and Trojan horse
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CLAS 250 Test 2 UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Athena (Minerva) - Correct Answer- - Zeus + Metis (Good Council), born from the head of
Zeus assisted by Hephaestus
- Goddess of wisdom, war, and crafts
- Founder of Athens (Attica)
- Helped in building the Argo and Trojan horse
- Virgin goddess
- Iconography: owl, helmet, shield and spear, Medusa, snake, olive tree
- Works together with Hephaestus, in an unwanted sexual advance he spilled his sperm and
and impregnated Mother-Gia with Erichthonius (ancestor of Athenians)
"theoktitos polis" - Correct Answer- God-founded city (Athens)
Parthenon - Correct Answer- "Temple of the Maiden" --> Panathenaea annual celebration to
the celebration of the birth of Athena.
Autochthonous Kings of Athens - Correct Answer- Men snakes
1. kekrops
2. Erichthonius (son of Hephaestus)
3. Erechtheus
Contest between Athena and Poseidon - Correct Answer- - Compete for supremacy over
Athens (Attica)
- Athena gives the people an olive tree, Poseidon gives horses or a river
- Athena becomes patron goddess, but the outlying sea towns also worship Poseidon
Arachne - Correct Answer- - Lidian princess
- Challenged Athena in a contest of weaving
- Athena wove a tapestry of contest with Neptune/Poseidon as well as the punishment of
mortals who challenged gods, Arachne wove stories of the sexual scandals of gods
, - Having lost, was transformed into a spider so she could weave forever
(Notice that gods punish those who are most like them)
Hephaestus (Vulcan) - Correct Answer- - Son of Hera conceived by parthenogenesis (only
from the mother) out of spite for Zeus's affairs.
- Native to the island of Lemnos (Zeus threw him off Olympus and he landed on the island).
- He is lame, the only handicapped Olympian, but is the most gifted craftsman.
- God of smiths
- He is a trickster ("Homeric Laughter" or making the Gods laugh)
- Married to Aphrodite
- Catches Aphrodite and Mars in an affair in nets, all the gods laugh at this
Hermes (Mercury) - Correct Answer- - Son of Zeus and Maia
- Birthplace is Arcadia
- On the night Hermes was born, he stole the cattle of Apollo, invented the lyre from the shell
of a turtle and the guts of the cattle, and bargained his misdeed to Apollo with the gift of the
lyre.
- name translated to "he of the stone heap" and is thus the god of wayfarers
- messenger, inventor, trickster, thief, the guide of souls to the Underworld
- Iconography: Herm (from Athens, his head with a phallus), caduceus (staff intertwined with
two snakes), petasos (invisibility helmet stolen from Hades), talaria (winged sandals), turtle
- He is seen as a gentler character among the Olympians
- slayer of Argus (Hermes Argeiphontes)
- Slayer of Argus
Herm - Correct Answer- Erect milestones were placed along the roads as dedication to
Hermes, protector of travelers. This is something that is apotropaic
Hermes + Aphrodite - Correct Answer- = Hermaphroditus
- Love stricken nymph Salmacis conceived a passion for their son and asked the gods to unite
her
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