Classics 2902 - Test 1 Questions With Complete Solutions
Alemaeon of Croton Correct Answers (early fifth century
BCE) seems to have made some of the earliest anatomical
observations of the optic nerves and of the passages between the
nasal and ear cavities
Anaxagoras of clazomenae Correct Answers fifth century
BCE) devised a theory that all things were made up of an
infinite number of kinds of invisible "seeds" in order to explain
how food could be transformed into other things, such as hair
and fingernails: the seeds of these kinds of matter were digested
and reconstituted in new forms
Anaximander Correct Answers ~ 560 BCE
- argued that first principle is not elemental but is in fact divine
- things exist in paired opposites
Anaximenes Correct Answers - 546 BCE
- change with air as principal cause
Apollo (Healing greek deity) Correct Answers Sun god, god of
music
- His arrows send disease in the illiad
- causes and cures diseases
- father of asklepios
- main cultic site: Delphi
, Artemis (Healing greek deity) Correct Answers Vigin goddess
of the hunt
- causes death w arrows and restores health
Asag/asakku Correct Answers Asag - smashing force
asakku - disorder
causes diseases due to free will
targets musculoskeletal system and skin (in confrontation to
Gula)
Asklepios Correct Answers god of medicine, son of Apollo
who was born by c-section and raised by chiron, killed by zeus
because he attempted ressurection - too powerful
Assaluhi Correct Answers a Mesopotamian deity often paired
with Gula
- son of enki
- associated with magic and childbirth
banausic prejudice Correct Answers Prejudice (and the looking
down upon of) craftsmen, doctors, and all who had to work with
their hands by elite members of Greek society
Chirom (Healing greek deity) Correct Answers First
Healer/physician
- Taught healing to Apollo and Asklepios and many more
Demigourgoi Correct Answers "men who work for the people"
(Craftsmen)
Alemaeon of Croton Correct Answers (early fifth century
BCE) seems to have made some of the earliest anatomical
observations of the optic nerves and of the passages between the
nasal and ear cavities
Anaxagoras of clazomenae Correct Answers fifth century
BCE) devised a theory that all things were made up of an
infinite number of kinds of invisible "seeds" in order to explain
how food could be transformed into other things, such as hair
and fingernails: the seeds of these kinds of matter were digested
and reconstituted in new forms
Anaximander Correct Answers ~ 560 BCE
- argued that first principle is not elemental but is in fact divine
- things exist in paired opposites
Anaximenes Correct Answers - 546 BCE
- change with air as principal cause
Apollo (Healing greek deity) Correct Answers Sun god, god of
music
- His arrows send disease in the illiad
- causes and cures diseases
- father of asklepios
- main cultic site: Delphi
, Artemis (Healing greek deity) Correct Answers Vigin goddess
of the hunt
- causes death w arrows and restores health
Asag/asakku Correct Answers Asag - smashing force
asakku - disorder
causes diseases due to free will
targets musculoskeletal system and skin (in confrontation to
Gula)
Asklepios Correct Answers god of medicine, son of Apollo
who was born by c-section and raised by chiron, killed by zeus
because he attempted ressurection - too powerful
Assaluhi Correct Answers a Mesopotamian deity often paired
with Gula
- son of enki
- associated with magic and childbirth
banausic prejudice Correct Answers Prejudice (and the looking
down upon of) craftsmen, doctors, and all who had to work with
their hands by elite members of Greek society
Chirom (Healing greek deity) Correct Answers First
Healer/physician
- Taught healing to Apollo and Asklepios and many more
Demigourgoi Correct Answers "men who work for the people"
(Craftsmen)
