Chapters 1-6

Question 1

Divine Myth

Answer 1

Stories in which supernatural beings are the main actors.

Question 2

Legend

Answer 2

Stories of the great deeds of human heroes or heroines.

Question 3

Folktale

Answer 3

Stories whose actors are ordinary people or animals.

Question 4

Etiological tale

Answer 4

A story that explains the causes tat brought the world into existence

Question 5

Folktale types

Answer 5

Some are named after a famous example “Cinderella type.” They are made up a smaller elements called folktale motifs. a Constellation of motifs.

Question 6

Folktale Motifs

Answer 6

The smaller parts of which folktale types are made out of. i.e. a “Cinderella type” motif would be “abused young sister.”

Question 7

Boeotia

Answer 7

The plain in which the principle settlement in ancient times as the city of Thebes.

Question 8

Attica

Answer 8

Southeast of Boeotia, with the capital of Athens

Question 9

Peloponnesus

Answer 9

Peninsula south of Attica, connected to the mainland by a thread of land called Isthmus.

Question 10

Laconia

Answer 10

Also called Lacedaemon, it is the territory around Sparta

Question 11

Euboea

Answer 11

East of the mainland on several smaller islands, and in Thessaly. Under high pressure workable stone was used by the Greeks for sculpture.

Question 12

Aegean Sea

Answer 12

Played a central role in the life of ancient Greeks since most of them lived near the sea and fished from there.

Question 13

Cyclades

Answer 13

Placed in a rough circle around the tiny central island of Delos, which is sacred to Apollo and Artemis.

Question 14

Indo-Europeans

Answer 14

Homeland was located in in central Asia. The people later called Greeks belonged to their cultural and linguistic group.

Question 15

Late Bronze Age

Answer 15

The age that most spectacular ruins and written document survive

Question 16

Mycenaean Age

Answer 16

Named for the enormous stone citadel of Mycenae in the Peloponneus. Time when powerful kings ruled Greeks.

Question 17

Achaeans

Answer 17

A word Homer uses to describe the men who attacked Troy.

Question 18

Linear B

Answer 18

The Greek non alphabetic script.

Question 19

Dark Age

Answer 19

Attributed to the destruction of the Mycenaean world by the invasion of Greek-speaking peoples called the Dorians.

Question 20

Ionia

Answer 20

Refugees from the Peloponnesus who took possession of the central islands of the Aegean and the central sector of the west coast of Asia Minor.

Question 21

Archaic Period

Answer 21

The period of political and cultural revival that began with the invention of the alphabetic marks the beginning of this new era.

Question 22

Polis

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The politically independent city-state.

Question 23

Classical Period

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Also known as the Golden Age of Greece. Saw many of the most influential thinkers, artists , and politicians who ever lived.

Question 24

Peloponnesian War

Answer 24

The war between the Spartans and the Persians

Question 25

Hellenistic Period

Answer 25

From 323 BC, when Alexander the Great died, we date the Hellenistic Period of Greek History. After his death, the empire quickly split up into separate kingdoms, but Greek Culture became the world culture.

Question 26

Pederasty

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The practice of isolating the male sex from the female sex so men in their twenties gathered around the exercise ground to admire the prepubescent boys and to court them with gifts and poetry.

Question 27

Hoplites

Answer 27

Heavily armed men who conducted warfare on open plains.

Question 28

Parthenos

Answer 28

The period between first menstruation and marriage. During this time the girl was thought to be wild and dangerous, like the goddess Artemis.

Question 29

Miasma

Answer 29

A time of enormous pollution after childbirth because of the blood and other fluids.

Question 30

Narcissus

Answer 30

The youth who had tremendous good looks. Once he caught his reflection. His body was changed into a flower. Created the term narcissism.

Question 31

Roman Period

Answer 31

Dated from 30 BC when Egypt fell into Roman hands.

Question 32

Etruscans

Answer 32

Like the Greeks, they resided in independent city-states. They have an unknown origin and spoke a language different than both Latin and Greek.

Question 33

Potnia Theron

Answer 33

Figure of Artemis, whose role in Greek religion was to promote the abundance of game.

Question 34

Mesopotamia

Answer 34

The “land between the rivers” which occupies the region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq. The Greek myth of the origin o the present world order in a battler of the gods was Mesopotamian in nature.

Question 35

Summerians

Answer 35

Unknown racial stock, spoke a language unrelated to any other known language.

Question 36

An

Answer 36

“Sky” the god of infinite expanse of the dome above us.