Lecture 5

Question 1

Aeschylus

Answer 1

Greek play write, wrote the play Prometheus Bound

Question 2

Anthropogony

Answer 2

The origin of the human species

Question 3

Arcadia

Answer 3

Location of Mount Lykaion, site of Zeus’ birth and an important sanctuary of Zeus

Question 4

Argeiphontes

Answer 4

Title given to Hermes meaning “slayer of Argus” after he lulled Argus to sleep and decapitated him

Question 5

Argus

Answer 5

Known as Argus Panoptes, meaning “all-seeing”, Argus has between 4 and 100 eyes which never all shut at the same time, he is sent by Hera to surveille Io but is decapitated by Hermes

Question 6

Culture Hero

Answer 6

A mythological hero specific to some group

Question 7

Deucalion

Answer 7

Son of Prometheus, last man left alive after Zeus sends a great flood to punish mortals for their sins

Question 8

Pyrrha

Answer 8

Daughter of Epimetheus, last woman left alive after Zeus sends a great flood to punish mortals for their sins

Question 9

Epaphus

Answer 9

Son of Io and Zeus, associated with Apis (a sacred bull), his name means “he of the touch”

Question 10

Hellen

Answer 10

Son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, eponymous ancestor of the Greek people, for the Greeks called themselves “Hellenes” and their country “Hellas”

Question 11

Kratos

Answer 11

Brutish servant of Zeus, name means “strength”

Question 12

Bia

Answer 12

Brutish servant of Zeus, name means “force”

Question 13

Lycaon

Answer 13

King of Arcadia, doubted Jupiter’s godhood, tried to feed him human meat, turned into a wolf

Question 14

Theomorphic

Answer 14

Formed in the image of a deity