CLAS 104 | Questions with 100% Verified Answers | Latest Update
2026/2027
Question: Myth
Answer:
comes from the greek word "mythos", which means "word", "speech", "tale" or "story" and
that is essentially what a myth is: a story
Question: True myth or Myth Proper
Answer:
stories primarily concerned with gods and humankind's relations with them. (gods,
religion and the supernatural)
Question: Saga and Legend
Answer:
Has perceptible relationship to history, has roots in historical fact
Question: Folktales
Answer:
stories of adventure, sometimes people with fantastic beings triumph in the end.
◦ goal is to entertain
◦ characters are well-known and popular
◦ Found in both oral and written literature
Question: Mircea Eliade
Answer:
- One of the most prolific 20th century writers on myth
- Emphasizes that myths are a tales that satisfy the yearning of human beings for a
fundamental orientation rooted in the religious aura of a sacred timelessness .
Question: Myth and Etiology
Answer:
Belief that the mythmaker is a kind of primitive scientist, using myths to explain facts facts
that cannot otherwise be explained within the limits of society's knowledge at the time
Question: Rationalism Vs. Metaphor, Allegory and Symbolism
Answer:
- Rationalists: Believe that gods were men deified for their great deeds
- Antirationalists: believe that these myths hide profound meaning
, Question: Max Muller's thoughts on Mythology
Answer:
Myths are all nature myths, referring to meteorological and cosmological phenomenon
Question: Carl Jung
Answer:
- Collective unconscious (dreams may be personal or collective)
- Myths are images or archetypes, traditional expressions of collective dreams,
developed over thousands of years, of symbols upon which the society as a whole has
come to depend.
Question: Achytypes
Answer:
Carl Jung
- Anima: image of a female that a man has within him
- Animus: image of a male that a woman has within her
Question: Claude Levi-Strauss
Answer:
See myth as a mode of communication, like music or language
Question: Women in greek society
Answer:
- were not citizens, unless both parents were citizens
- did not vote
- benefitted from the prosperity, and the artistic expression and freedom of the
democracy and empire
- had important in religious ceremonies
- did not always walk outside veiled
- many were outspoken on their positions/rights
- some had affairs, got intoxicated
- most were illiterate
- in art: idealized, beautiful, but (not nude until later)
Question: Theme of Rape
Answer:
- To some, Ovid's Metamorphoses is a glorification of male supremacy and brutality
- The Greeks and Romans were fascinated with the phenomena of blinding passion and
equally compulsive virginity.
- The man defines lust and the women defines chastity
- The fact that its a god that seduced a human, seems to almost makes it ok
- The goddesses also seduced/raped men then as well
2026/2027
Question: Myth
Answer:
comes from the greek word "mythos", which means "word", "speech", "tale" or "story" and
that is essentially what a myth is: a story
Question: True myth or Myth Proper
Answer:
stories primarily concerned with gods and humankind's relations with them. (gods,
religion and the supernatural)
Question: Saga and Legend
Answer:
Has perceptible relationship to history, has roots in historical fact
Question: Folktales
Answer:
stories of adventure, sometimes people with fantastic beings triumph in the end.
◦ goal is to entertain
◦ characters are well-known and popular
◦ Found in both oral and written literature
Question: Mircea Eliade
Answer:
- One of the most prolific 20th century writers on myth
- Emphasizes that myths are a tales that satisfy the yearning of human beings for a
fundamental orientation rooted in the religious aura of a sacred timelessness .
Question: Myth and Etiology
Answer:
Belief that the mythmaker is a kind of primitive scientist, using myths to explain facts facts
that cannot otherwise be explained within the limits of society's knowledge at the time
Question: Rationalism Vs. Metaphor, Allegory and Symbolism
Answer:
- Rationalists: Believe that gods were men deified for their great deeds
- Antirationalists: believe that these myths hide profound meaning
, Question: Max Muller's thoughts on Mythology
Answer:
Myths are all nature myths, referring to meteorological and cosmological phenomenon
Question: Carl Jung
Answer:
- Collective unconscious (dreams may be personal or collective)
- Myths are images or archetypes, traditional expressions of collective dreams,
developed over thousands of years, of symbols upon which the society as a whole has
come to depend.
Question: Achytypes
Answer:
Carl Jung
- Anima: image of a female that a man has within him
- Animus: image of a male that a woman has within her
Question: Claude Levi-Strauss
Answer:
See myth as a mode of communication, like music or language
Question: Women in greek society
Answer:
- were not citizens, unless both parents were citizens
- did not vote
- benefitted from the prosperity, and the artistic expression and freedom of the
democracy and empire
- had important in religious ceremonies
- did not always walk outside veiled
- many were outspoken on their positions/rights
- some had affairs, got intoxicated
- most were illiterate
- in art: idealized, beautiful, but (not nude until later)
Question: Theme of Rape
Answer:
- To some, Ovid's Metamorphoses is a glorification of male supremacy and brutality
- The Greeks and Romans were fascinated with the phenomena of blinding passion and
equally compulsive virginity.
- The man defines lust and the women defines chastity
- The fact that its a god that seduced a human, seems to almost makes it ok
- The goddesses also seduced/raped men then as well
