Works / Sources

Question 1

Homer

Answer 1

Set the stage for basic qualities of literature

Iliad
Odyssey, the most heterosexual of poems

Question 2

Hesiod

Answer 2

Theogony - most important source for the relationship of Zeus and the Olympians to their predecessors, the Titans
Works and days

Question 3

Homeric hymns

Answer 3

33 anonymous poems in honor of Olympian deities

Composed at different times

Question 4

Virgil

Answer 4

Aenid

Question 5

Aeschylus

Answer 5

Oresteia, for the house of Atreus

Question 6

Sophocles

Answer 6

Theban plays, for the saga of the family of oedipus

Question 7

Euripides

Answer 7

Bacchae, for the myths of Dionsyus

Question 8

Apollonius of Rhodes

Answer 8

Argonautica, for the saga of the Argonauts

Question 9

Herodotus

Answer 9

Accounts of the meeting between Solon and croesus

Question 10

Apollodorus

Answer 10

Biblioteca

Question 11

Plato

Answer 11

Myth of Er is philosophical allegory of the soul and its existence after death

Question 12

Lucian

Answer 12

Wrote satires, present the Olympian gods with humor and critical insight

Known for his version of the judgement of Paris

Question 13

Ovid

Answer 13

Roman, vergil’s younger contemporary

Most important source for classical mythology after homer

Metamorphoses

Question 14

Livy

Answer 14

Ab urbe condita (myths of Rome)