Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
CLSS Exam 1
Classical Mythology exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A _____ can be oral, or it may be conveyed in painting or ritual, dance, or in songs, etc. | myth |
| comes from the Greek word "mythos" | myth |
| Means word, speech, tale, story, etc. : | mythos |
| Myths are the religions of what ancient groups? | Greeks & Romans |
| These are the stories of the gods, and sometimes of their relationships with humans: | True myth |
| These are based on historical fact: | saga/legend |
| These are traditional tales involving wicked sisters, fantastic creatures, mistaken identity, labors...: | Folktales/fairytales |
| Fairy tales of folk tales involve: | riddles, dangerous, challenging adventures in which the hero and heroine always win in the end |
| These are viewed as having more magic involved and are specifically made for the young | Fairy tales |
| These are viewed as being more traditional and rustic | Folk tales |
| _____, ______, and _______ are all types of traditional tales that all overlap to some degree and are sometimes difficult to distinguish apart | True myth, saga, and fairy tale |
| This is truth to the society which developed that particular body of myth | mythology |
| He said myth is a "tale satisfying human yearning for fundamental orientation rooted in religious aura of a sacred timelessness | Mircea Eliade |
| Explains causes: | Etiological |
| Etiologial comes from what Greek word? | aitia |
| Aitia means: | cause |
| This view says myths explain facts that cannot otherwise be explained within the limits of society's knowledge at the time | Etiological |
| His blood stained the mulberries and turned them red: | Thisbe |
| He claimed that the gods were men deified for their great deeds | Euhemerus |
| Who is Zeus's father? | Cronus |
| What is the opposite of the theory, Euhemerism? | Metaphorical interpretation |
| Who believed all myths were nature, referring to meteorological and cosmological phenomena? | Max Muller |
| Who, using allegorical properties of mythology, emphasized on sexuality, symbolism," dream work", etc.? | Sigmund Freud |
| According to Freud, the male's first sexual impulse is towards the mother, and thus his first aggressive impulse is against the father. This is called: | the Oepidus complex |
| According to Freud, dreams address the deepest confusions and conflicts in our souls. He also believed this did the same: | myths |
| In the totemic system, what did totems (perhaps animals) take the place of? | slain fathers |
| This is a tendency to form such representations of a motif which are representations that can vary a great deal in detail w/o losing their basic pattern | archetype |
| A term coined by Carl Jung which refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species | collective unconscious |
| Great Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Shadow, the Tower, Water, etc. are: | universal symbols/archetypes |
| This is a kind of dramatic abbreviation of the patterns involved in an entire story or situation, basically a behavior pattern: | archetypes |
| This links myth with ritual: | The Golden Bough |
| He was a ritualist who believed that myth was the interpretation of ritual which was also often recorded on temple walls, vases, seals, chests, shields, tapestries, etc. He also distinguished "true myth" from 12 other categories: | Robert Graves |
| This is an attempt to organize myths by analyzing their component parts: | structuralism |
| He acknowledged the link b/w myth and society; understood myth as communication and emphasized structure: | Claude Levi Strauss |
| Structure, meaning 31 units of action (motifemes) constant in traditional tales is referred to who? | Vladimir Propp |
| The Sistine Chapel Ceiling by Michelangelo existed from what time? | 1508-1512 |
| This analyzes and compares myths of different societies to find similarities and differences: | comparative mythology |
| He is the most popular comparative mythologist whose work consists of myths of all sorts, such as oral, literary, Classical, primitive, etc.: | Joseph Campbell |
| The wife of Augustus: | Livia |
| The mistress of Pericles: | Aspasia |
| equally compulsive virginity is symbolized by these women: | Artemis and Aphrodite |
| When a god rapes a mortal woman, what is always the result? | bearing a child who usually becomes a hero |
| Who is Ganymede? | a man who was raped by Zeus in classical mythology |
| We get the word "lesbian" from who? | Sappho |
| She is a historical woman of Lesbos, who wrote love poetry to other women: | Sappho |
| This is a story that, through its classical form, has attained a kind of immortality because its inherent archetypical beauty, profundity, and power have inspired rewarding renewal and transformation by successive generations | classical myth |
| He was the archaic excavator of Troy, Mycenae who destroyed just as much as he discovered | Heinrich Schliemann (Mr. think he slick) |
| These people lived during this era, 1600-1100 B.C.: | Mycenaean Civilization |
| He is the Greek leader of the Trojan War: | Agamemnon |
| When did Schliemann excavate Mycenae? | 1876 |
| He was the excavator of Minoan civilization on Crete: | Sir Arthur Evans |
| These people lived during this era, 1600-1400 B.C.: | Minoans |
| This is a kingdom of the sea, which covered Crete, the islands, and possibly parts of mainland Greece: | thalassocracy |
| The term "Minoan" comes from the name...: | Minos |
| He was a legendary king of Crete | Minos |
| Minos became known as a ______ in the underworld in later Greek Mythology | judge |
| Legends of the Labyrinth were inspired by the: | Castle in Crete |
| Minotaur comes from "Minos" + "Taurus" which means: | Minos bull |
| Labyrinth comes from the word: | Labrys |
| The Minoans were believed to worship what? | a mother goddess |
| This means "referring to the earth or under the earth" | Chthonian (snakes are an example) |
| This may have given rise to the legend of Atlantis, mentioned by Plato: | Thera |
| What is Thera? | |
| This is the great gateway to the mighty city of Mycenae "rich in gold": | The Lion Gate |
| Why are they called "cyclopean" walls? | there was belief that the Cyclopes built them |
| Which culture had fortified palaces, and which lacked walls altogether? | Mycenaeans, Minoans |
| These types of graves consisted of buried treasures and were used by the Myceneans: | shaft graves |
| Which graves were used after the shaft graves and date from about 15th-14th century B.C.? | tholos (tombs) |
| This was the architectural ancestor of the Greek temple that only Mycenaeans featured: | megaron |
| Which culture had a deciphered language in 1952, Minoan or Mycenaean? | Mycenaean |
| Who deciphered the Mycenaean language that mentioned stories of the gods? | Michael Ventris |
| These people launched an invasion against the rich city of Troy: | Mycenaean |
| This city occupied an important place b/w Asia & Europe | Troy |
| Besik Tepe was once considered to be a tomb to ancient Greeks & Romans called: | the Tomb of Achilles |
| This alphabet was developed 400 years after the fall of the Mycenaean culture and was adopted from the Phoenician alphabet: | Classical Greek alphabet |
| He believed that Hissarlik was the site of Troy: | Frank Calvert |
| He continued the excavation of Troy after Schliemann from 1882-1890: | Wilhelm Dorpfeld |
| He re-examined the site of Troy from 1932-1938) | Carl Blegan |
| He was the latest excavator of Troy (1988): | Manfred Korfmann |
| Carl Blegan also discovered the ______ palace at Pylos (southern Greece) in 1939: | Mycenaean |
| One of the foremost types of myth is: | creation myth |
| Our two greatest surviving sources for creation myth are: | Hesiod & Ovid |
| Who wrote Theogony and Works & Days? | Hesiod |
Created by:
tparker31
Popular World History sets