Terms

Question 1

Achilles

Answer 1

A Greek hero featured in “The Iliad.” He fights with Agamemnon over

Question 2

Aeneas

Answer 2

a

Question 3

Chaos

Answer 3

a

Question 4

Coffin Texts

Answer 4

a

Question 5

Dido

Answer 5

a

Question 6

Enki

Answer 6

a

Question 7

Enki and Ninhursag

Answer 7

a

Question 8

Enkidu

Answer 8

a

Question 9

Enuma elish

Answer 9

a

Question 10

etiology

Answer 10

The study of the cause of something unknown, this is referred to as origin stories. Popular origin stories tend to be of the world, man, or behavioral habits.

Question 11

Freudian analysis

Answer 11

Analysis popularized by Freud, that refers to psychosis of the individual. It refers mostly to childhood and trauma. He also focused on psychosexual analysis.

Question 12

geras

Answer 12

Geras are prizes or trophies that someone can win in Greek culture. They can be weapons, armor, or even women. In the case of the Iliad, Agamemnon successfully strips him of his geras, as Agamemnon was forced to give his up.

Question 13

Gilgamesh

Answer 13

a

Question 14

Hesiod

Answer 14

A Greek poet who lived between 750-650 BC. He wrote Theogony, which describes the birth of the Greek Gods.

Question 15

Hestia

Answer 15

Greek goddess of family

Question 16

Homer

Answer 16

750-700 BC, writer of Iliad and Odyssey, used dactylic hexameter, vocal poet

Question 17

Horus

Answer 17

a

Question 18

Ishtar

Answer 18

a

Question 19

Jungian Analysis

Answer 19

a

Question 20

Linear B

Answer 20

a

Question 21

Marduk

Answer 21

a

Question 22

Osiris

Answer 22

a

Question 23

Pandora

Answer 23

a

Question 24

pietas

Answer 24

a

Question 25

pithos

Answer 25

a

Question 26

Prometheus

Answer 26

a

Question 27

proomia

Answer 27

a

Question 28

rationalist interpretation

Answer 28

a

Question 29

ritualist interpretation

Answer 29

a

Question 30

Sinuhe

Answer 30

a

Question 31

structuralism

Answer 31

This concept puts things into binaries. It separates good from evil, life from death, male from female, or youth and elder. Good and evil is a general topic that is covered by many myths, like the Trojan War in the Iliad.

Question 32

Theogony

Answer 32

Theogony is an ancient Greek poem that was written by Hesiod. It explains the birth of the world, when it was once merely Chaos and disaster. It explains the birth of the gods.

Question 33

Tiamat

Answer 33

Salt water god in Mesopotamia, married to the Apsu god,

Question 34

time

Answer 34

a

Question 35

Troy

Answer 35

a

Question 36

Virgil

Answer 36

He is the writer of the Aeneid. He worked on the Aeneid during the last 11 years of his life. It was commissioned by Augustus, He was alive from 70 to 19 BC

Question 37

Zeus

Answer 37

a