Textbook Chapter 2 Flashcards
What is the function of creation stories?
Contain ethical, social and religious patterns for human society. Reflects an understanding about the way the world works, and how humans should behave.
What are epithets?
Descriptions of objects or people
How was the linear B style of writing developed?
From another style of writing known as Linear A
Which gods/goddesses are included on the ancient tablets found in Mycenae?
Artemis, Dionysus, Zeus, and Hera
How was Hesoid’s town of Ascra differentially organized from Mycenae?
Less centrally organized, instead of one wanax, it had several rulers known as Basileus.
Why did Hesoid begin to call the kings of Ascra “gift eating?”
Due to their favouring of his brother Perses in a battle over who would gain their fathers inheritance.
Who were the first audiences of Hesoid’s theogony?
Self-reliant farmers
How did the Iron Age transition to the Archaic?
Increase in population caused Iron age towns to become more robust culturally and politically
What was one of the major developments of the Archaic period?
Colonization. Greeks began to travel as the population increased
How are tyrants formed?
One elite in a group of elites somehow taking power away from the other elites by aligning himself with merchants, farmers, or tradesmen.
What did the Greeks begin to describe themselves collectively as during the Archaic period?
Hellenes
What were the 4 most important Panhellic ceremonies?
Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, and Olympia
What did Philosophers imagine created the Universe?
A substance or process
How did Orpheus create the Gods in an alternate creation story?
Chronus (time) generated an egg that contained male and female natures in it. This egg, along with a God who was part serpent part bull created the GODS.
How did the Muses inspire Hesiod?
They gave him a laurel branch (an emblem of Apollo) and then taught him to sing about the Gods.
