Midterm

Question 1

Socrates

Answer 1

Was instructed by Diotima

Question 2

Arachne

Answer 2

Athens grew angry at Arachne since she was getting famous for her weaving and did not recognize Athena as her god. They had a competition for weaving and Arachne wove all the wrong doings of the gods

Question 3

Zeus Swallowed…

Answer 3

Metis, while she was pregnant with Athena

Question 4

East Pediment

Answer 4

Shows the birth of Athena from the head of Zeus

Question 5

Chthonian vs. Olympians

Answer 5

Olympian gods lived in the upper world, while Chthonians lived in the underworld

Question 6

Mortals vs. Gods

Answer 6

Gods are immortals

Question 7

Ill-fated Man

Answer 7

Adrastus

Question 8

Aphrodite’s Lover

Answer 8

Ares

Question 9

What does Mnemosyne mean?

Answer 9

Memory

Question 10

Goddess of Hearth

Answer 10

Hestia

Question 11

Which god boasted that they would endure any number of shackles in order to lie with Aphrodite?

Answer 11

Hermes

Question 12

Who was Argus slayed by?

Answer 12

Hermes

Question 13

Who were the parents of the Cyclops?

Answer 13

Uranus and Gaia

Question 14

Who drove the sun chariot disastrously?

Answer 14

Phaethon, son of Helius

Question 15

What does “Hieros Gamos” mean?

Answer 15

holy marriage

Question 16

Who is the next important author of myths after Homer?

Answer 16

Ovid

Question 17

Who is associated with archetypes?

Answer 17

Carl Jung

Question 18

What is the name of an interpretation of myth that sought to rationalize it by claiming that the gods were originally powerful men?

Answer 18

Euhermism

Question 19

Who survived the flood sent by Zeus?

Answer 19

King Deucalion and his wife Pyrrah

Question 20

Why did Zeus punish Prometheus?

Answer 20

Prometheus knew that if Zeus mated with the sea goddess Thetis then she would have a son that could overthrow Zeus, but he didn’t say anything

Question 21

In what place did Apollo lay out his temple and slay the she-dragon?

Answer 21

Crisa

Question 22

Which goddess was worshiped by eunuch priests?

Answer 22

Cybele

Question 23

Who was the mortal by whom Aphrodite conceived the Trojan Aeneas?

Answer 23

Anchises

Question 24

What is Phaedra’s principal motivation in her initial silence, her disclosure to her nurse, and
finally her suicide note?

Answer 24

She wanted to keep her nobleness and reputation

Question 25

What is the meaning behind the Greek word sophronein as employed by various characters in Euripides’ Hippolytus?

Answer 25

to be temperate

Question 26

Who was the woman whose children were slain because of their mother’s pride

Answer 26

Niobe

Question 27

Who rejected the advances of Apollo and chose the mortal Idas instead?

Answer 27

Marpessa

Question 28

For what action did Zeus kill Apollo’s son Asclepius?

Answer 28

Because Asclepius brought Hippolytus back from the dead, which was what Artemis wanted

Question 29

What instrument did Hermes invent and give to Apollo?

Answer 29

the Lyre

Question 30

Why was Apollo upset with the infant Hermes?

Answer 30

Hermes stole Apollos cattle

Question 31

What function does Hermes serve in his role as Psychopompos?

Answer 31

He guides the souls of the dead into the Underworld

Question 32

Who tries to convince Pentheus to revere the new god Dionysus?

Answer 32

Tiresias

Question 33

What is the nature of human beings according to the variant myth of Dionysus’ origins?

Answer 33

humans are both titanic and divine at the same time

Question 34

What does the term omophagy mean?

Answer 34

Eating of raw meat

Question 35

Why was Demeter’s daughter required to spend a part of the year in the Underworld?

Answer 35

she ate the pomegranate