quiz 2

Question 1

God of wine, vegetation, fertility, and theatre

Answer 1

Dionysus

Question 2

Three day festival in for the arrival of spring in Athens, wine and fertility, blending the worlds of living and dead, destabilizing effect on society

Answer 2

Anthesteria

Question 3

Main mystery cult criteria

Answer 3

No civic affiliations
Initiation
Did not demand sole allegiance
Offer something to the initiates
Open to all

Question 4

divine messenger, guide of souls to the realm of Hades

Answer 4

Hermes

Question 5

story of Hermes’ birth and childhood

Answer 5

Homeric Hymn to Hermes

Question 6

twins of Zeus and Leto, Leto flees from Hera and finds a safe place to give birth, associated with youth and initiatory rights

Answer 6

Artemis and Apollo

Question 7

Day 1 of festival, wine is opened and the dead come back from the underworld

Answer 7

Pithoigia (jar-opening)

Question 8

Day 2 of festival, citywide drinking contest, no talking, procession to Dionysus Limnaios (of the marshes)

Answer 8

Choes (Wine Jugs)

Question 9

Day 3 of festival, sacred marriage of dionysus with athens, offerings to spirits so they return to Hades, girls on swings (honouring myth of daughters suicide after her fathers death from wine)

Answer 9

Chytroi (Pots)

Question 10

Male only drinking parties, to examine their world and the self

Answer 10

Symposium

Question 11

Aristophane’s The Archarnians describes a festival, procession of phallus’ usually made of food

Answer 11

Country Dionysia

Question 12

Week long celebration in Athens, protaganist Dionysus “Eleuthereus”, translates to “free”, temporary liberation from political/gender identities during plays

Answer 12

City Dionysia (great dionysia)

Question 13

religious practice, tearing apart sacrificial animals and eating them raw, very different from the standard

Answer 13

Dionysus’ Orgia

Question 14

Dionysus arrives with his followers (bacchae), disguised as a follower, convinces women to join him in the woods, Pentheus resists and Dionysus trues to convince him, Pentheus is destroyed by maenads

Answer 14

Euripides’ Bacchae

Question 15

Goddess of virginity, childbirth, moon and menstruation, protector of animals, aka The Cynthia

Answer 15

Artemis

Question 16

guy sees Artemis bathing, she turns him into a stag because of his unchaste eyes

Answer 16

Actaeon

Question 17

Artemis protecting or punishing mortals by turning them into stars

Answer 17

Orion, Callisto (ursa major), and Arcas (ursa minor)

Question 18

explanation of women dying in childbirth as them getting hit by “gentle arrows”

Answer 18

Artemis Lochia

Question 19

Handsome son of Theseus is a chaste follower of Artemis, spurns Aphrodite who makes his stepmother Phaedre fall in love with him, comes on to Hippolytos and is denied, she kills herself and blames him, father curses son, son dies, Artemis promises a cult for him, father and son reconciled

Answer 19

Euripides’ play Hippolytos

Question 20

“Playing the bear” for Artemis at Brauron, rite of passage for young girls before marriage, playing and acting
based on myth of young girl playing with bear, she gets scratched and bleeds (first menstruation), brothers kill the bear and are punished
“Taming” of the girls into society

Answer 20

the Brauronia

Question 21

young men’s rite of passage in Sparta, they steal cheese without getting caught and return it, also whipped at the altar of Artemis, also play parts in performances as Helots (slaves)
based on myth of young men killing eachother at Artemis’ altar, she is angered and demands more blood

Answer 21

Orthia in Sparta

Question 22

Born to Leto and Zeus, youthful, healer and bringer of pestilence, claims lyre, bow, and laurel, contradictory extreme emotions and restraint, usurps son god role, opposite to Dionysus

Answer 22

Apollo

Question 23

Son of Apollo, god of medicine, divine ideal of kindly physician, temple of healing in their honour

Answer 23

Asclepios

Question 24

oracle visited by people all over greece with any kind of question, they sat on tripod and went into a frenzy, priests would transcribe responses

Answer 24

Pythia, prophetess to apollo at temple in Delphi

Question 25

more generic term for prophetess, very famous seers

Answer 25

Cumaean Sybil

Question 26

Spartan festival: First day is a ritual funeral only for boys, second day is feasting and competitions, third day boys are incorporated back into society as men Based on myth: Apollo falls in love with boy, jealous god kills the boy

Answer 26

The Hyacinthia

Question 27

myth as a literal script for ritual, not convincing but shifted attention to myths social contexts

Answer 27

Jane Harrison and Cambridge Ritualists

Question 28

1. “A hero or heroine was understood to be a human being who had died” 2. “Heroes and heroines perform extraordinary deeds that may or may not be moral” 3. “Heroes and heroines die prematurely (aoroi) and violently (biaiothanatoi)” 4. “Heroes and heroines were worshipped at their gravesites” 5.“Heroes and heroines obtain a form of immortality through cult and song”

Answer 28

The five traits of a hero

Question 29

the hero’s moment of excellence where he approaches divinity

Answer 29

Aristeia

Question 30

the glory or renown that a hero seeks, oftentimes the impetus for why they fight in the first place and attempt to achieve heroic deeds

Answer 30

Kleos

Question 31

the honour which a hero gains among his peers, also related to price, thus can pertain to the ransom a family or city will pay for a hero if he is caught by his enemies

Answer 31

Timē

Question 32

King of Mycenae and brother to Menalaus, whose wife, Helen, was stolen by the Trojan prince, Paris. flawed and incompetent ruler

Answer 32

Agamemnon

Question 33

Young greek warrior, second only to achilles. blessed by Athena he manages to wound Ares and Aphrodite

Answer 33

Diomedes

Question 34

foil to Achilles, greatest hero among the Trojans

Answer 34

Hector

Question 35

Epic poetry corresponds to tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of admirable people

Answer 35

Aristotle's Poetics

Question 36

force is a power one person wields over another but cannot fully control; that the Iliad is about force; that Homer’s work will always be relevant because people will always attempt to use force; and that despite its central theme—namely force and the suffering it causes—the Iliad is a beautiful poem

Answer 36

Simone Weil The Iliad is a poem of force

Question 37

Rhea is raped by Mars, abandons her children, she-wolf nurtures them, the brothers have a rivalry and one kills the other

Answer 37

Romulus and Remus

Question 38

Escapes from Troy during war because mother the prophecy states he must travel the Mediterranean

Answer 38

Vergil’s Aeneid (first century BCE)

Question 39

Peripheral role Rarely involve travel or physical strength Love and connection to others

Answer 39

Lee R Edwards differences in how Heroines are portrayed