vocabulary

Question 1

the golden mean

Answer 1

nothing too much, moderation is always best

ability to maintain midpoint between vice and virtue

Question 2

sophrosyne

Answer 2

wise restraint

Question 3

commensiality

Answer 3

eating together forging and reinforcing social bonds by eating and drinking together

Question 4

theogony

Answer 4

birth of gods

Question 5

parthegonesesis

Answer 5

asexual reproduction, unusual conception, gestation or birth

Question 6

etiological

Answer 6

something that explains the origin of something
(explination of certain concepts using myths)

Question 7

kalon kakon

Answer 7

beautiful evil

Question 8

metis

Answer 8

cunning

Question 9

miasma

Answer 9

a god-sent disease that is caused by a murder that has not been atoned for (with proper purification rituals). A miasma can fall upon an entire city when one man in that city is guilty of a murder and has not atoned for it.

stain of guilt

Question 10

pederasty

Answer 10

love for boys

Question 11

symposium

Answer 11

all male drinking party

Question 12

ephebe

Answer 12

boys between 18 and 20

Question 13

gynaikeon

Answer 13

womens headquarters

Question 14

parthenos

Answer 14

virgin (after period)

Question 15

nymphe

Answer 15

maried and has had intercourse

Question 16

gyne

Answer 16

when she has had a child

Question 17

kore

Answer 17

girl (a parthenos)