Final

Question 1

Apollo

Answer 1

AOC: music, healing, prophecy Attr.: kithara, bow, laurel

Question 2

Zeus

Answer 2

AOC: the sky, kingship Attr.: beard, eagle, thunderbolt

Question 3

Prometheus

Answer 3

AOC: technology, man Attr.: fire, eagle, caring for man

Question 4

Heracles

Answer 4

AOC: strength, spreading culture Attr: lion skin, club

Question 5

Poseidon

Answer 5

AOC: the sea, horses, earthquakes Attr: trident, beard

Question 6

Athena

Answer 6

AOC: wisdom, war Attr: helmet, owl

Question 7

Aphrodite

Answer 7

AOC: love, desire, fertility Attr: cupids, doves

Question 8

Demeter

Answer 8

AOC: agriculture Attr: grain sheaf, crown of wheat

Question 9

Furies/Erinyes/Eumenides

Answer 9

AOC: the punishment of murderers of family members Attr: snakes, whips

Question 10

Artemis (twin sister of Apollo)

Answer 10

AOC: hunting, childbirth, virginity Attr: bow and arrow, hunting dog, stag, moon

Question 11

Hades

Answer 11

God of the underworld Attr: keys, helmet, black sheep, pomegranate seed

Question 12

Dionysus

Answer 12

God of Wine honored at the Great Dionysia festival in Athens where tragedies were performed.

Question 13

Psyche (Wife of Eros/Cupid)

Answer 13

Goddess of the soul Attr: Butterfly wings, anima

Question 14

Agamemnon

Answer 14

Kills his daughter to sacrifice to Artemis and is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and his cousin Aegisthus.

Question 15

Pandora

Answer 15

The first mortal woman created by the gods as a punishment for Prometheus after he steals fire from Zeus for mankind.

Question 16

Theseus (National Hero of Athens)

Answer 16

Slayer of the Minotaur and not the best boyfriend and father

Question 17

Deucalion

Answer 17

Survived the Flood in Greek Mythology

Question 18

Bellerophon

Answer 18

Tamed Pegasus and killed the Chimaera

Question 19

Pygmalion

Answer 19

The sculptor who married his sculpture came alive by praying to Aphrodite. He killed Sychaeus due to his wealth.

Question 20

Tantalus

Answer 20

Cut up is son Pelops and tried to get the gods to eat him, he was punished in the underworld with eternal hunger and thirst.

Question 21

Orestes

Answer 21

Avenges his father by killing his mother, suffers punishment from the Furies

Question 22

Thyestes (Son of Pelops)

Answer 22

Seduces Atreus’s wife and as revenge, Atreus kills Thyestes’ sons and feeds them to him

Question 23

Atreus (Son of Pelops)

Answer 23

Won the city of Mycenae and killed Thyestes’ sons and fed them to him

Question 24

Pelops (Son of Tantalus & Father of Thyestes and Atreus)

Answer 24

Served to the gods by his father but his body was restored by the Fates and his left shoulder, eaten by Demeter, was replaced with ivory

Question 25

Myrrha (Mother of Adonis)

Answer 25

Was turned into a tree after having sex with her father and gave birth to Adonis as a tree

Question 26

Adonis (Son/Brother of Myrrha)

Answer 26

Mortal lover of Aphrodite

Question 27

Critical Thinking

Answer 27

Not having the answer before asking the question

Question 28

Idealism

Answer 28

The belief is that categories exist ‘out there’ independent of language and human beings. Sometimes these categories are referred to as ‘natural’

Question 29

Textualism

Answer 29

Because categories and even mythic figures are constructed by language, it is better to try to understand categories and mythic figures as subject to limited change over time rather than imperfect copies of an ideal hero or category.

Question 30

Humanism

Answer 30

The assertion that human beings are the same now as in the ancient world and therefore understandable

Question 31

Historicism

Answer 31

The idea that human beings had fundamentally different ideas of how the world worked in the past and their motives cannot always be understood.

Question 32

Aetiological/Etiological Myth

Answer 32

A myth that explains the origins of a historical practice or event

Question 33

Ethnicity

Answer 33

A socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on a myth of common ancestry

Question 34

Gender

Answer 34

The range of characteristics pertaining to and differentiating between masculinity and femininity

Question 35

Allegory

Answer 35

A narrative that conveys hidden meanings through symbols, figures, actions, imagery, and events which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.

Question 36

Theodicy

Answer 36

The defense of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil

Question 37

Eleusis

Answer 37

A deme/village of Athens home of the Eleusinian Mysteries, an initiation ceremony dealing with the Eleusinian triad and an afterlife

Question 38

Theatre of Dionysus

Answer 38

The main theater in Athens during the fifth century and the location of the altar to Dionysos Eleutherios.

Question 39

Delphi

Answer 39

Panhellenic Sanctuary and sacred precinct of Apollo. Site of the Delphic oracle overseen by the Pythia. The setting of the first half of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo

Question 40

Areopagus

Answer 40

A hill in Athens where the council of former Archons met and set policy.

Question 41

Homer

Answer 41

The author of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns

Question 42

Pseudo-Apollodorus

Answer 42

The author of the Library of Greek Mythology

Question 43

Berossus

Answer 43

The author of The History of Babylonia

Question 44

Ovid

Answer 44

The author of The Metamorphoses

Question 45

Euripides

Answer 45

The author of 90+ tragedies including Medea and Orestes rarely won 1st prize in the dramatic contests. May have been bribed to change the ending of the Medea myth

Question 46

Plato

Answer 46

Founder of the academy where Aristotle was educated and the follower of Socrates

Question 47

Apuleius

Answer 47

Author of the Metamorphoses (Cupid and Psyche)

Question 48

Aristotle

Answer 48

Philosopher and tutor of Alexander the Great

Question 49

Seneca

Answer 49

Author of Thyestes

Question 50

Aeschylus

Answer 50

Author of the Oresteia trilogy