Euripides Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Camus - Algerian author who wrote The Stranger, "The Rebel," and The Plague. Chaucer - Author who wrote The Book of the Duchess, Canterbury Tales, and House of Fame. Paradise Lost - Name this epic poem by John Milton that ends with with the first humans being exiled from the Garden of Eden. Milton - This author was an English poet who wrote Paradise Lost and Areopagitica. Faulkner - This American author wrote about a woman's murder in "A Rose for Emily." Name this man who wrote ...

Oedipus' biological father - correct answer Laius Oedipus' adoptive father - correct answer Polybus Oedipus' biological mother - correct answer Jocasta Oedipus' adoptive mother - correct answer Merone Where was Oedipus born? - correct answer Thebes Where did Oedipus live with his adoptive parents? - correct answer Corinth What does Oedipus do when he finds out he is adopted? - correct answer He goes to the Oracle of Delphi Why did Oedipus leave Corinth? - correct answer ...

Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 words of love? - agape, eros, philia, storge (4 words of love) From among which three goddesses must Paris choose "the fairest" to give the Golden Apple to? - Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite (Aphrodite won) The story of Hippolytus and Phaedra recalls the story of... - Ovid's Amores? Euripides? (but the myth goes.. Phaedra is married to Theseus but falls in love with his son from another marriage (step-son) named Hippolytus. He rejects her. She clai...

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM TEST (QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS)2024/2025 According to the essay "Ancient Athenian Drama," before the invention of tragedy there were contests in which rhapsodes recited parts of what works of literature? - CORRECT ANSWER-Homer's Iliad and Odyssey What did Aeschylus supposedly call his own work? - CORRECT ANSWER-"Slices from the feast of Homer" What does the essay say about the entrances and exits of characters in Greek drama? - CORRECT ANSWER-To...

PRAXIS II ENGLISH CONTENT KNOWLEDGE: MAJOR WORKS SYNOPSES WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% 2023 Piers Plowman Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland concerning the narrator's intense quest for a true Christian life. One of the early great works of English literature. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance and one of the better-known Arthurian stories. Sir Gawain, one of Arthur's knights, accepts the challenge of the myst...

PRAXIS II ENGLISH CONTENT KNOWLEDGE: AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% Homer Homeric or Heroic Period. The greatest of the ancient Greek epic poets and author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, works that lie at the beginning of the Western literary canon. Gorgias Greek sophist from Sicily who turned his back on true philosophy; believed that all statements were false and that everything was incomprehensible and unknowable Aesop Greek author of fables Plato Clas...

CSTU 101 Quiz / Chapter 8Greek comedy can accurately be described as a philosophy of life - correct answer True Under the right circumstances, a Greek tragedy could focus on the plight of a lower-class citizen - correct answer False Not a whole lot of action actually took place on stage in a typical Greek drama. - correct answer True When viewed in Greek terms, the Bible must be considered the world's greatest tragedy - correct answer False What is one of the most significant things...

CSTU 101 Quiz / Chapter 8Greek comedy can accurately be described as a philosophy of life - correct answer True Under the right circumstances, a Greek tragedy could focus on the plight of a lower-class citizen - correct answer False Not a whole lot of action actually took place on stage in a typical Greek drama. - correct answer True When viewed in Greek terms, the Bible must be considered the world's greatest tragedy - correct answer False What is one of the most significant things...

Troy at boundary between Asia and Europe Greeks and Romans did not draw clear distinction b/w myth and history For Herodotus, "mythical" narratives serve as background to "historical" events Not the content of the stories that is untrue, just the way they are told Euhemerist rationalization: kernel of truth behind fabulous accounts Prominence of Trojan Myth Not just ten years of "war" Mythical Chronology Last age heroes Some are sons of gods and goddesses, many more a...

CLA Final Exam with 100% correct answers 2024 The major festival where tragic plays were presented in Athens was dedicated to which god? - answerDionysus 2. What is the space in the theater called where the chorus would sing and dance their stasima? - answerorchestra 3. What is the only surviving tragic tetraology? - answeraeschylus aga 4. Which character in the Bacchae provides the prologue? - answerdionysus 5. In what time period did Euripides live and write his plays? - answerClassica...