Pt. 1

Question 1

Myth, Ledgend, Fairytale

Answer 1

-Myth (proper): stories pertaining to gods and
human relations with them – i.e. supernatural
-Legend / saga: stories that take place in the
‘historical’ world – i.e. within the world as we
know it
-Folktales and fairytales: ‘stock’ stories, e.g.
Hero vs. Giant, wicked stepmother, mistaken
identity

Question 2

Important texts, list some

Answer 2

homer: Iliad and Odyssey
Virgils Aeneid
Ovid (metamorphosis)

Question 3

mutability

Answer 3

can do so many things but still have to work with set timeline (BATMAN: born patients killed, batman) but space in between is changeable, later details can get fixed (bat mobile)

Question 4

Hesiod

Answer 4

sheperd/farmer, found story on mt.helcon, muses were the invocation, wrote in epic meter

Question 5

How’s it start

Answer 5

Chaos –> Gaia–>Eros–> sex is the catalyst,

Gaea makes uranus (heaven)

Question 6

Gaea and Uranus

Answer 6

mountains, oceanus, rhea thea Cronus, giants (natural, like 200handed hecatoncheires) cyclopses and sent them to tartarus

Question 7

Kronos vs. Uranus

Answer 7

gets silver adamant sickle and castrates uranus (loses power and verity to reproduce) then the penis falls into oceans where sperm becomes aphrodite

Question 8

Cronus and Rhea get busy…but too much?

Answer 8

echidna (snake lady), cerberus, hestia, dementia, hera, hades, posid, zeus, eats then Rhea gives him stone zeus and zeus is raised in cave by Curetes with the goat Amalthea

Question 9

Titanomachy

Answer 9

war of titans, zeus wins with lightening, atlas hold up world, (basically Zeus defeats the titans)

Question 10

gigantomachy

Answer 10

typhoeus (snake body) giants born of gaea

Question 11

centre of the greek world?

Answer 11

Delphi

Question 12

Mycenaean

Answer 12

Megaron for cheif
things lost and reduced to oral traditions
city of Knosos has centre what’s it hold *minitar?)
warfare so people moved out of the hubs
lion head gate at palace of mycaean
giant cyclopean walls (only cyclopses could build it)
rich and military based
linear B tablet

Question 13

Prometheus and mans start

Answer 13

man from clay (from earth and tears or cause Zeus asked). ran out of clay so prom cares for us

Question 14

5 ages of man

Answer 14

gold (awesome), silver (babies), bronze (war), heroic, iron

Question 15

prometheus and fire

Answer 15

butchered cow trick gods into taking bone, Zeus took away human fire, prom steals it back, Zeus gets prom tied to mountain and eagle eats his liver even day till hercules rescues him

Question 16

Pandora and her Box

Answer 16

hesphes makes her bod, athena clothes and hermes teaches her to trick, graces give persuasion. epimethius excepts her. jar opens and all evils but hope escape

Question 17

Lycaon

Answer 17

went to potluck and testes zeus all seeing. Fed human flesh to see if notice. They did so turn lycan into wolf

Question 18

Flood

Answer 18

earth floods, Deucalion (prom) and Pyrrha (epimeth) get on boat to mt.parnassus Zeus feels bad no flood themis says losses clothes and toss mothers bones (stones)

Question 19

epic of gilgamesh

Answer 19

wants to be immortal so finds Utnapishtim

Question 20

Croesus

Answer 20

welcomed solon in who told him what it takes to be happy, then erlcomed Adrastus who by accident killed his brother. Then got told Croesus son would die by iron, and wild boar hunt he did when Adrastus by accident hit him. Then Cyrus takes the city almost burns him but apollo saves him