Test 1

Question 1

What is the purpose of the theogany?

Answer 1

A hymn in honour of Zeus.

Question 2

Who were the first gods?

Answer 2

Chaos, Gaea, Tartarus, Eros

Question 3

What is important to know about the first gods?

Answer 3

They were personifications of concepts/forces in the universe.

Question 4

How did uranus come to be?

Answer 4

Gaea produced him asexually and then he married her when he was older

Question 5

What are all 12 titans?

Answer 5

6 male:
Oceanus, Hyperion, koios, krios, lapetos, kronos.

6 female:
Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, tethys, phoebe, theia

Question 6

Who were Rhea and kronos’s children?

Answer 6

3 female: Hestia, Demeter, Hera
3 male: Hades, Poseidon, Zeus

Question 7

What is a divine family?

Answer 7

Everyone is related and interactions are dysfunctional.

Question 7

What does anthropomorphic mean?

Answer 7

Gods behave like humans except they are immortal and are much more powerful.

Question 8

What are spheres of influence with gods?

Answer 8

The dimensions in which they are associated with.

Question 9

What is piety?

Answer 9

demonstrating daily respect to the gods. Shows honor.

Question 10

What is a libation?

Answer 10

Liquid offering

Question 11

What is usually sacrificed to the gods?

Answer 11

Animal bones

Question 12

What things are associated with Zeus?

Answer 12

Aegis, thunderbolt, strength, long tunic/cloak, and eagle

Question 13

What are other names for Zeus?

Answer 13

Dios, sky god

Question 14

What are Zeus’s spheres of influence?

Answer 14

God of justice, law, dike (customary law), and xenia (hospitality).

Question 15

What is an epithet?

Answer 15

Nick name

Question 16

What are Zeus’s epithets?

Answer 16

Zeus kataibases, xenios, horkios (oaths), father, and cloud gatherer

Question 17

What is a kylix?

Answer 17

A cup used for drinking wine

Question 18

What is mythos?

Answer 18

A traditional tale

Question 19

What is logos?

Answer 19

Record of an event happening

Question 20

What is a myth?

Answer 20

A traditional story with collective importance. Author is not usually known

Question 21

What is the format of a myth?

Answer 21

Plot, characters, setting, and function (entertainment, moral, or etiological)

Question 22

What is an etiological myth?

Answer 22

myth explaining the cause of something. Why are things the way they are? Common in a divine myth

Question 23

What are the 3 types of myths?

Answer 23

Divine myths, legend, and folktale.

Question 24

What is a divine myth?

Answer 24

Associated with a belief system.

Question 25

What is a legend?

Answer 25

The past explains and justifies the present. Events of the past human world.

Question 26

What is a folktale?

Answer 26

Fiction. Happening anywhere, anyplace.

Question 27

When did hesoid live?

Answer 27

Archaic period. 750-700 bc (8th century)

Question 28

What is an aiodos?

Answer 28

Singer from foreign land

Question 29

What is the point of the theogany and works and days?

Answer 29

Theogany: Creation of world as we know it. Works and days: Teaches you about hesiod and how to farm.

Question 30

Who was hesoid?

Answer 30

Lived near Mt. helicon, muses taught him to sing, and had some bad luck (due to impiety).

Question 31

What did the theogony become the base of?

Answer 31

Cosmogony (origin of universe)

Question 32

What is the point of the theogony?

Answer 32

To show moral and give tribute to Zeus.

Question 33

What is hieros gamos?

Answer 33

Sacred marriage

Question 34

What is near east?

Answer 34

Turkey, egypt, iran, iraq, afganistan

Question 35

What is mesopotamia?

Answer 35

Civilization near tigris and eurphrades river (modern day iraq and kuwait)

Question 36

What is phoenicia?

Answer 36

Modern day Lebanon

Question 37

What is asia minor?

Answer 37

Modern day turkey. Inoia is a state within this.

Question 38

What is Boeotia?

Answer 38

State in Greece. Thebes is located here.

Question 39

What was the theogony based off of?

Answer 39

Near east myth model. E.g. babylondian creation with Enuma elish

Question 40

What is the difference between cosmogony and theogony?

Answer 40

Cosmogony= creation of the cosmos (universe) Theogony= creation of the gods

Question 41

What is a calliope?

Answer 41

epic song

Question 42

What is the role of the muses in the intro of the theogony?

Answer 42

Inspiration and education

Question 43

What did all the original gods come from?

Answer 43

Chaos

Question 44

How did Aphrodite come to be?

Answer 44

Appeared from foam of castrated testicles of uranus (when cronus cut them off)

Question 45

Who birthed the titans?

Answer 45

Gaea and Uranus

Question 46

Who does cronus marry after defeating uranus?

Answer 46

Rhea (his sister). Both gave birth to 6 Olympians.

Question 47

Who are all 6 titans?

Answer 47

Hestia, demeter, hera, hades, poseidon, and zeus!

Question 48

How do rhea and cronus resemble their parent?

Answer 48

Both men are tyrannical rulers, and both are involved in sacred marriages.

Question 49

Why does cronus swallow his children?

Answer 49

Prophecy says one of his children will overthrow him as king

Question 50

What was Rhea's trick?

Answer 50

Gave cronus a rock wrapped up while she sent zeus away to grow up in a cave in crete. Suckled from a goat.

Question 51

What is the omphalos?

Answer 51

A stone located in Delphi considered to be the centre of the world.

Question 52

How did the olympians come to be?

Answer 52

Metis have cronus a potion that made him throw up the other kids.

Question 53

When cronus was exiled to tarterus, who did he release?

Answer 53

Cyclopes and hecatonchires

Question 54

What is a folktale motif of the fall of cronus?

Answer 54

Female power oppressed and replaced by men