Hesiod - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Ritual - A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - Founder of greek tragedy. Most famous play=Agamemno Euripides - 3 great tragedians of classical g...

Greek Mythology Test Review (2024) – Questions & Answers (Graded A+) Greek Mythology Test Review (2024) – Questions & Answers (Graded A+) What are the Types of Myths - ANSWER - Divine Myth: a story that explains a phenomenon Legend: a story of a mythical human character Folktale: traditional story passed down through generations What is a Classical Myth - ANSWER - A classic myth is a story that, through its classical form, has attained a kind of immortality because its inherent arc...

A theogony is - a story about the birth of the gods According to Hesiod from what did all things come - Chaos According to Hesiod how did Ouranosbeget Aphrodite? Group of answer choices - by being castrated According to Hesiod who came out of Chaos? - Nyx, Gaia, Erebus, Tartarus, Eros According to Hesiod, who made the Age of Heroes? - Zeus According to Hesiod's ages which one can be summed up in the image B in the powerpoint? - Iron An allegorical interpretation of a myth - says that the...

Why does Zeus refuse to give fire to men? - correct answer because he was angry with men after having the worse portion of meat Which of the following is NOT true of Prometheus? - correct answer - he is mortal - he is killed by Zeus Which of the following is true of Prometheus? - correct answer - he is the son of a Titan, he will be freed by Heracles, he matched his wits with Zeus, he stole fire in a fennel stalk - not a child of Gaea and Uranus - teaches man metallurgy, carpentry...

Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)() - Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450. Early Dark Age(1250-900): - -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline. -Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over. -1250 marks Trojan war. Late Dark Age (900-750): - -Population growth and new trade. -800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy) Archaic (750-480) - -Rise of ...

Freud interpreted Myth through which lens - Answer-psychology Who is our main source for Greek stories of creation? - Answer-Hesiod Who is the earliest female ancestor of the gods? - Answer-Gaia Creation myths are - Answer-divine myths Who is most person famous from antiquity to argue that myths were not true? - Answer-Aristotle Who is associated with the oldest epics in Greece? - Answer-Homer Anthropomorphic means - Answer-Having human characteristics A symbolic interpretation of myth ar...

Who is Typhoeus? Why did Zeus need to fight him? correct answers Offspring of Gaea and Tartarus with heads of a dragon Fights Zeus because of Gaea's anger at Zeus for defeating the Titans Name three other heroes who fight snake-like monsters in Greek myth correct answers Apollo with the python, Hercules with the hydra, Perseus with medusa, cadmus with the dragon Name one similarity between the titanomachy and the battle with Typhoeus. correct answers In both, Gaea/the earth is harmed by ...

Myth correct answer: word, speech, tale story used for stories primarily dealing with gods and humans' relations with them comes from Greek mythos Legend (Saga) correct answer: tale with a relationship to history may be imaginative/fantastic but has roots in historical fact Folktales correct answer: stories of adventures of common "folk", sometimes with fantastic creatures, and the hero/heroine wins with a fantastic strategy follow typical motifs and primary role is to te...

"And then, lest he should leave the shades untried, dared to descend to Styx, passing the portal Men can Taenarian. Through the phantom dwellers, the buried ghosts, he passed, came to the king of that sad realm, and to Persephone, his consort, and he swept the strings, and chanted..." Identify the most likely story this passage is from - Orpheus and Eurydice A student is asked to compare our contemporary views on heroes to those of antiquity. Which of the following statements most aligns ...

CLC 106 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Ritual - Answer-A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Answer-Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Answer-Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Answer-Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Answer-Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - A...