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1
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What were heroines two roles in relation to heroes?

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  • Helping them
  • Hindering them
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True or False: Heroines was usually used to describe women in groups, usually deities or demi-goddesses

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True

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What was a Kurios?

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women’s male guardian

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True or False: heroines mostly represent female social norms and concerns

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False, it’s male concerns

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Did the greeks see Helena as the culprit of the Trojan war?

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No

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Who is Helen the daughter of?

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Zeus and Leda (swan story)

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How is Helen depicted as a storyteller?

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She weaves a tapestry of the war

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Who believed that Helen had a phantom and was actually in Egypt?

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Stesichorus and Herodotus

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What social aspect does Helen’s multiple locations represent?

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Concerns surrounding women’s movements without supervision

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9
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What is Lee R Edward’s view of heroines portrayals (3)

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  • peripheral role
  • rarely involve travel or physical strength
  • Love and connection to others
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What do monsters represent in society?

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those who live or do things outside of social norms

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What do heroes represent in society

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enforcers of society and its rules

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True or false: Heracles is the idealized Greek male paragon

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True

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What are the chronological issues with Heracles’s 12 tasks

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Some say he killed his wife after them while others say the killing prompted the tasks

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14
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Who are Heracles’s parents

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Alcmene and Zeus

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How does Zeus trick Alcmene

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he disguises himself as her husband, Amphitryon

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What is the etymology or Heracles’s name?

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Glory of Hera

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17
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What is Hera’s relation to
Heracles? (2)

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She tries to kill him at birth
she makes him insane temporarily so he kills his wife and kids

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18
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What are Athloi?

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Competitions with prizes?

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What are Heracles’s athloi and what is the reward?

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The twelve labours and his prize is immortality

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What is the relation between Heracles’s labours involving capturing and relocating animals?

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The social character of the animal tamer

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21
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What labour reinforces social norms against women?

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The defeat of the amazons

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22
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What is Heracles’s relation to the underworld?

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He crosses in and out multiple times, ex: cerberus and apples

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True or false, Heracles’s labors were all over the known greek world

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True

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24
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Who wrote The Madness of Heracles?

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Euripides

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What happens in The Madness of Heracles?

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Heracles returns from his travels and Hera makes him briefly lose his mind, he kills his wife and kids, wants to kill himself after but Theseus dissuades him

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26
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What is Sophocles’s Trachiniae about?

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Heracles saves Deianira from a centaur and marries her, when he returns with Iole she uses the centaur’s blood on him thinking it’s a love potion (its poison), Heracles lives but she kills herself

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27
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What interpretative approach can be used for Hercules? (2)

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Etiological: master of animals figure
Structuralism: patterns in stories and origins (Burkert) quest structure with character types and functions

28
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Who wrote Alcestis?

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Euripides

29
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What is Alcestis about?

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Artemis hates Admetus but Apollo likes him so he calls on death (Thanatos), someone must take Admetus’ place, his wife volunteers on the condition that he never remarries, she dies. Heracles travels and stops by Admetus’s house and admires his hospitality so he brings back Alcestis who can’t speak and is veiled. Admetus doesn’t recognize her but accepts her and later figures out who she is.

30
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True or false: Alcestis’ role becomes secondary when Heracles arrives

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True

31
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What are Nostos stories?

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Stories of people returning home

32
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What is wrong with Nostos stories and what is an example

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Something bad usually happens, like Agamemnon getting killed upon his return

33
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Who is Odysseus’s opposite?

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Achilles because of his practical intelligence rather than headstrong brunt

34
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True or false: Odysseus mostly learns from women

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True

35
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What is Odysseus’s divine lineage?

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His parents were related to gods

36
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What does the story of Philoctetes in other tales say about Odysseus’s morality

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He’s not always good, in this case Philoctetes is wounded and slowing down the Greeks return, Odysseus convinces them to abandon him on an island.

37
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What role does Odysseus take in the Odyssey?

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The Passive Hero, silent and lsitening

38
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What are the books 1-4 about?

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The situation on Ithaca, trojan heroes returned as suitors for Penelope and her son Telemachus travels for news of his father

39
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Where does book 5 start off?

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Odysseus is with Calypso who is forced by the gods to let her go, Odysseus washes up on an island and begins to tell his story

40
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What is the myth of Polyphemus?

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Odysseus and his crew reach and explore an island and find a cave with food and supplies, Odysseus convinces his men to eat first ask later. Polyphemus returns and wants revenge so he starts eating the men and Odysseus offers him wine, hed never had wine so he is quickly drunk and Odysseus says his name is “Nobody”, Poly. is blinded and the men flee clinging onto the rams

41
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What does the story of Polyphemus represent for the Greeks?

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The cultured Greeks vs The barbarians, related to historical events of Greek colonization

42
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What is Constantine Cavafy’s Ithaca about?

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the importance of how a journey’s length and struggle help the person grow

43
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What is Campbell’s approach

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the hero’s journey reflects an individuals life (only applies to men)

44
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What is Auden’s approach

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a reader’s interpretation and the hero’s quest reflects the individual

45
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Who wrote Oedipus Tyrannus

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Sophocles

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47
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Who are Oedipus’s parents

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Jocasta and Laius

48
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Who is Tiresias?

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blind seer

49
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Who do Oedipus and Tiresias respectively represent?

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Oedipus: political authority
Tiresias: religious authority

50
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What is the blindness imagery in the play?

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Oedipus can see physically but not the truth
Tiresias can’t see but he cans ee the truth

51
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What is the foundling narrative and how does Sophocles distort it?

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It’s a trope about a baby being lost and later recognized and reunited by his parents
The distortion is that his mom only recognizes him after marrying him and having his kids, she then kills herself

52
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What clue is in Oedipus’s name?

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It means Swell Feet

53
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What is Sophocles’ presentation or free will?

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Actions are not truly free, the only one is Oedipus’s decision to pursue truth and blind himself

54
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True or False: Jason’s lineage is 100% godly

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false

55
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What provokes Jason’s departure?

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His uncle Pelias sends him to get the Golden fleece (an impossible quest) after receiving a prophecy that his nephew will overtake him

56
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Where does the crew of the Argo en up?

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Colchis, a land of barbarians ruled by king Aeetes

57
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What are Jason’s tasks?

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to yoke fire breathing bulls and sow dragons teeth that will sprout warriors that he then has to kill

58
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How does Medea help Jason?

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She gives him a magical ointment t pass the tasks, she helps him drug the serpent guarding the fleece

59
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How does Euripides’s Medea portray her?

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she is the hero and dragon slayer

60
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How does Ovid depict Medea?

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she is not the dragon slayer, it is Jason

61
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What does Jason do in Corinth

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he marries the king’s daughter to gain status as prince and successor

62
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What led to the bad reception of Medea?

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  • she goes unpunished which is at the time ethically upsetting
  • infanticide
    it shows female issues to an all-male audience
63
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How does Medea escape?

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on a chariot sent by her uncle Helios led by serpents

64
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What is Medea’s argument and what is Jason’s

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Medea: he is breaking the marriage pact when she has help up her end by leaving home and giving him children
Jason: his actions were practical and she is only upset because of lack of sex

65
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What are the two concepts Seneca brings into his play about Medea?

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Ratio and Furor

66
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What is Ratio?

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Reason

67
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What is furor?

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Madness

68
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