Greeks Exam

Question 1

Who built the Parthenon?

Answer 1

The people of Athens (Athena)

Question 2

Who is Zeus’s child?

Answer 2

Dionysus (wine, intoxication), male

Question 3

Believing in multiple gods, not a lot of rules

Answer 3

Polytheistic Religion

Question 4

Believing in one god, many rules

Answer 4

Monotheistic Religion

Question 5

Why was the Bronze Age so important? Mycenean Era

Answer 5

age of building weapons and tools

Question 6

What did Ancient greeks believe in?

Answer 6

spiritual and physical planes

Question 7

the universal dream

Answer 7

myth

Question 8

the individual myth

Answer 8

dream

Question 9

“utterance” or “something one says”

Answer 9

mythos

Question 10

How old is Mythology?

Answer 10

language

Question 11

For greeks, what is their hell?

Answer 11

Hades

Question 12

Who is Zeus’s brother?

Answer 12

Hades

Question 13

What is an oral tradition? (written later)

Answer 13

Myth

Question 14

Has facial hair

Answer 14

greeks

Question 15

no facial hair

Answer 15

Romans

Question 16

Unlike the Bible, in mythology, the stories are not…

Answer 16

Chronological

Question 17

The Greek gods represent what?

Answer 17

Human traits

Question 18

What type of universe does Mythology have?

Answer 18

triple layered
Heaven, Earth, Hades

Question 19

Mt Olympus, place where the gods and goddesses are

Answer 19

heaven

Question 20

Who were the first known myth writers?

Answer 20

Sumerians

Question 21

What shape is myth?

Answer 21

Circle
departure, initiation, return

Question 22

What is the theme of Departure?

Answer 22

discomfort, hero is taken out of his comfort zone

Question 23

Theme of Initiation?

Answer 23

pain, hero will suffer

Question 23

Theme of return?

Answer 23

change, hero will be changed from the beginning to end of story

Question 24

Who razed the Myceneans and plunged Greece in the Dark Age that lasted 300 years?

Answer 24

Dorians

Question 25

who came before the Myceneans?

Answer 25

Minoans

Question 26

Where did the Myceneans settle after the Dorians razed Greece?

Answer 26

Ionia, later Troy, then Turkey

Question 27

Greeks are humanists that emphasize...

Answer 27

this life, not the next

Question 28

Where did the Dorians settle

Answer 28

southern greece, sparta

Question 29

who ruins the greek culture in Ionia?

Answer 29

Persia

Question 30

King of Heaven, wise but unfaithful

Answer 30

Zeus

Question 31

Jealous and vengeful

Answer 31

Hera

Question 32

goddess of wisdom and strategy

Answer 32

Athena

Question 33

Sun God of accomplishment and athletes (good brother to Dionysus)

Answer 33

Apollo

Question 34

goddess of male sexual desire

Answer 34

aphrodite

Question 35

god of war (Mars to the Romans) city is sparta, does not get along with Athena

Answer 35

Ares

Question 36

Who declared himself the sun king therefore comparing himself to the greek god Apollo?

Answer 36

French king louis XIV

Question 37

who is thought to have controll over the weather?

Answer 37

Zeus, jupiter

Question 38

How many theories are there on mythical origin?

Answer 38

4

Question 39

Myths are suppressed desires, god is not real, everyone are animals, we are driven by sexual desire

Answer 39

Freudian Theory

Question 40

A man muders his father and has sexual relations with his mother

Answer 40

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Question 41

to Freud, what are three parts to the human psyche?

Answer 41

Id (desire), ego (regulates and balances desires), and superego (conscience).

Question 42

We are all connected and bound by something that predates culture and history

Answer 42

collective unconscious, carl jung

Question 43

Believed in God, collective unconscious, all of us come from God, all roads lead to God, Sexual desires are there, but spiritual concerns are stronger,

Answer 43

Carl Jung

Question 44

part of the collective unconscious, tell us who people are, a universal representation like a king

Answer 44

Archetypes

Question 45

Female aspect of the male pysche

Answer 45

Anima

Question 46

male aspect of the female psyche

Answer 46

Animus

Question 47

Negative, dark aspects of the psyche, repressed desires

Answer 47

Shadow

Question 48

do not like mythology, sexist, all about men, myths are a product of patriarchal communities, only men are considered worthy heroes, male heroes get all the glory, while women do the real work

Answer 48

Feminist Scholars

Question 49

agrees with Jung and the collective unconscious, every hero is essentially the same, there is a hero who leaves him reluctantly, undergoes trials, and return to his community to teach the tribe

Answer 49

Joseph Campbell

Question 50

King of heaven

Answer 50

Zeus

Question 51

queen of heaven

Answer 51

Hera

Question 52

patron of hunter and nature

Answer 52

Artemis

Question 53

zeus's brother, master of the sea

Answer 53

Poseidon

Question 54

god of war, patron of soldiers

Answer 54

Ares

Question 55

patron of thieves, couriers, and merchants

Answer 55

Hermes

Question 56

god of wine and intoxication

Answer 56

Dionysus

Question 57

patron of athletes, artists, musicians, and the accomplished

Answer 57

Apollo