Week 8

Question 1

artemis origin

Answer 1

fertility goddess

Question 2

pontia theron

Answer 2

mistress of the animals

Question 3

artemis precocious child

Answer 3

helps leto in childbirth

Question 4

why is she called cynthia?

Answer 4

born on mt. cynthus in delos

Question 5

niobe myth

Answer 5

niobe, queen of thebes is boastful of her 14 children (leto has 2) insults leto, artemis and apollo kill all but one and turn niobe into weeping stone

Question 5

actaeon myth

Answer 5

(ovid) actaeon, grandson of cadmus is a hunter who sees diana naked because of fate and she turns him into a stag, killed by his own hounds. Example of artemis vengeance

Question 6

artemis identified with goddesses

Answer 6

selene and hecate, triple faced statues

Question 7

euripides hippolytus

Answer 7

devoted to artemis, hippolytus rejects aphrodite who curses phaedra (stepmother) to fall in love with him. Hippo is disgusted, phaedra commits suicide but fasely accuses hippo in her note, who is then killed by his father theseus. Artemis rewards hippo with a cult.

Question 8

kore

Answer 8

another name for persephone (girl)

Question 9

homeric hymns and epic poetry meter

Answer 9

they share the same meter

Question 10

homeric hymn structure

Answer 10

invocation to the muses
epithets
journey
miraculous birth
precocious children
battles for power
incorporation into pantheon

Question 11

gods that heard persephone

Answer 11

hecate and helius

Question 12

demeter homeric hymn

Answer 12

one of the longest, 1 = short ode, 2 = myth

Question 13

Son Demeter raises

Answer 13

Demephon

Question 14

Mother of demephon

Answer 14

Meteneira