Week 1, Chpt 1-3

Question 1

Divine Myth

Answer 1

• “The beginning of things”
• True myth
• Main characters are supernatural beings
• The stories explain why the world is the way that it is

Question 2

Anthropomorphism

Answer 2

Gods or nature is given a few human characteristics.

Question 3

Legends

Answer 3

• Sagas
• Stories of the great deeds of humans or semi humans
• Events of the human past
• Somewhat true

Question 4

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 4

Believed Homer’s tories about Troy and funded an archeological dig, found proof (Priam’s Treasure) that Homer’s stories were based on historical truth.

Question 5

Folktales

Answer 5

• Stories whose characters are ordinary people or animals
• Serve to entertain or justify why things are the way that they are from a cultural standpoint
• Fairytales
• These tales have a moral behind them

Question 6

Moral Fable

Answer 6

Ainos

Question 7

The regular appearance of certain identifiable narrative patterns in a story

Answer 7

Motif

Question 8

“to say something differently”, similar to synbolism

Answer 8

Allegory

Question 9

Physical Allegory

Answer 9

Myths about battles between gods are really representations of natural forces.

Question 10

Etymology

Answer 10

Getting to the root of the word.

Question 11

Euhemerism

Answer 11

Historical Allegory

Question 12

The Minoans

Answer 12

• Elaborate palaces, significant wealth and technology
• Bull and double axes important symbols, bull symbolizes fertility
• Non-indo europeans

Question 13

What did the Greek call themselves?

Answer 13

Hellenes

Question 14

Linear B script disappeared for 400 years until the _____ with the reintroduction of writing

Answer 14

Archaic Age

Question 15

Mesopotamia

Answer 15

• Near East
• “Land between 2 rivers”
• Non-indo european
• Important source for myth

Question 16

Mycenaeans

Answer 16

• Indo-european Greek speakers
• Linear B script
• Mycenaeans ruled by powerful kings
• A warlike people