CLC 106 FENNO COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Olympic games (ca. 776 B.C.) - ✔✔- funeral games for Pelops (He was a King) held
every four years at Olympia
✔✔Orestes at Sparta (ca. 550 B.C.) - ✔✔- The Spartans were losing a long war and the
Delphic oracle told them they needed to retrieve the bones of Orestes in order to win
the war
- his bones were retrieved and they began to honor him as a proper hero
- they began winning all their battles
✔✔Theseus at Athens (ca. 475 B.C.) - ✔✔- Theseus' bones were reburied and his tomb
became like a sanctuary for the persecuted because he was known for helping the
needy
✔✔Hesiod's five generations of mortals - ✔✔- gold (made by the gods)
- Silver (made by the gods)
- bronze (made by Zeus)
- heroes (made by Zeus)
- iron (made by Zeus)
✔✔the Golden race - ✔✔- mortal humans
- lived in peace and faithfully worshiped the gods
- pure spirits, and defenders from evil
✔✔the Silver race - ✔✔- have honor but are much worse than the golden race
- didn't care for the gods
- Zeus angrily hid them
✔✔the Bronze race - ✔✔- strong and warlike people
- consumed by their own rage
- wiped out by the black death
✔✔the Heroes race - ✔✔much nobler and wiser, somewhat better than bronze, fought
at Thebes & Trojan war, had superior strength but also devoted to war, when the best
people of this era died they went to the Isle of the Blessed
✔✔The Iron race - ✔✔- the last race
- "they have no relief from labor and sorrow"
- they suck
- "Zeus will destroy this race of mortals"
✔✔Danae and Perseus - ✔✔-Danae is the mother to Perseus
, - sent out to sea in a chest by Acrisius so that he would not be accused of murder but
so that his grandson would not live to kill him
✔✔Argive Plain - ✔✔Fertile area in the Peloponnesus; site of Mycenae, Argos, Tiryns.
✔✔Inachus River - ✔✔- Inachus (the river god of Argos)
- Father of Io
✔✔Danaus - ✔✔- descendent of Io who had 50 daughters
- daughters were called Danaans (they were Argives= citizens of Argos)
- they were pressured by the 50 sons of their uncle
✔✔Danaans - ✔✔- the 50 daughters of Danaus (they were Argives= citizens of Argos)
- they were pressured by the 50 sons of their uncle
- they all killed their husbands
- They were punished in the afterlife by having to fill a leaky vessel with water
✔✔The Danaan that did not kill her husband - ✔✔- Hypermnestra
- her husband was Lynceus
- they continued the royal line of Argos
✔✔Acrisius and Proetus - ✔✔twin sons of Abas quarreled even in womb
✔✔Acrisius - ✔✔- King of Argos
- locked his virgin daughter (Danae) in a room so she would not be able to have a son
who was prophesied to kill Acrisius
- Zeus sent golden rain (drops of gold) to her room that got her pregnant
- she then gave birth to perseus
- Acrisius then put them in a box out to sea
✔✔Seriphos - ✔✔Island ruled under Polydectes which Danae and Perseus ends up
floating to
✔✔Dictys ("Netman") - ✔✔- the fisherman catches the box near the island of Seriphos
- Perseus grows up there and is adopted by Dictys
✔✔"The Net Drawers (Diktyoulkoi)" play - ✔✔- Satyr play written by Aeschylus
- the play tells us how the box was found and how the mother and child were saved on
the island of Seriphos
✔✔Polydectes ("Receiver of Many") - ✔✔-King of Seriphos
- Brother of Dictys
- was in love with Danae
- he sent Perseus away to get the head of the Gorgon Medusa
- When Perseus returned with her head he learned Polydectes was abusing Danae
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Olympic games (ca. 776 B.C.) - ✔✔- funeral games for Pelops (He was a King) held
every four years at Olympia
✔✔Orestes at Sparta (ca. 550 B.C.) - ✔✔- The Spartans were losing a long war and the
Delphic oracle told them they needed to retrieve the bones of Orestes in order to win
the war
- his bones were retrieved and they began to honor him as a proper hero
- they began winning all their battles
✔✔Theseus at Athens (ca. 475 B.C.) - ✔✔- Theseus' bones were reburied and his tomb
became like a sanctuary for the persecuted because he was known for helping the
needy
✔✔Hesiod's five generations of mortals - ✔✔- gold (made by the gods)
- Silver (made by the gods)
- bronze (made by Zeus)
- heroes (made by Zeus)
- iron (made by Zeus)
✔✔the Golden race - ✔✔- mortal humans
- lived in peace and faithfully worshiped the gods
- pure spirits, and defenders from evil
✔✔the Silver race - ✔✔- have honor but are much worse than the golden race
- didn't care for the gods
- Zeus angrily hid them
✔✔the Bronze race - ✔✔- strong and warlike people
- consumed by their own rage
- wiped out by the black death
✔✔the Heroes race - ✔✔much nobler and wiser, somewhat better than bronze, fought
at Thebes & Trojan war, had superior strength but also devoted to war, when the best
people of this era died they went to the Isle of the Blessed
✔✔The Iron race - ✔✔- the last race
- "they have no relief from labor and sorrow"
- they suck
- "Zeus will destroy this race of mortals"
✔✔Danae and Perseus - ✔✔-Danae is the mother to Perseus
, - sent out to sea in a chest by Acrisius so that he would not be accused of murder but
so that his grandson would not live to kill him
✔✔Argive Plain - ✔✔Fertile area in the Peloponnesus; site of Mycenae, Argos, Tiryns.
✔✔Inachus River - ✔✔- Inachus (the river god of Argos)
- Father of Io
✔✔Danaus - ✔✔- descendent of Io who had 50 daughters
- daughters were called Danaans (they were Argives= citizens of Argos)
- they were pressured by the 50 sons of their uncle
✔✔Danaans - ✔✔- the 50 daughters of Danaus (they were Argives= citizens of Argos)
- they were pressured by the 50 sons of their uncle
- they all killed their husbands
- They were punished in the afterlife by having to fill a leaky vessel with water
✔✔The Danaan that did not kill her husband - ✔✔- Hypermnestra
- her husband was Lynceus
- they continued the royal line of Argos
✔✔Acrisius and Proetus - ✔✔twin sons of Abas quarreled even in womb
✔✔Acrisius - ✔✔- King of Argos
- locked his virgin daughter (Danae) in a room so she would not be able to have a son
who was prophesied to kill Acrisius
- Zeus sent golden rain (drops of gold) to her room that got her pregnant
- she then gave birth to perseus
- Acrisius then put them in a box out to sea
✔✔Seriphos - ✔✔Island ruled under Polydectes which Danae and Perseus ends up
floating to
✔✔Dictys ("Netman") - ✔✔- the fisherman catches the box near the island of Seriphos
- Perseus grows up there and is adopted by Dictys
✔✔"The Net Drawers (Diktyoulkoi)" play - ✔✔- Satyr play written by Aeschylus
- the play tells us how the box was found and how the mother and child were saved on
the island of Seriphos
✔✔Polydectes ("Receiver of Many") - ✔✔-King of Seriphos
- Brother of Dictys
- was in love with Danae
- he sent Perseus away to get the head of the Gorgon Medusa
- When Perseus returned with her head he learned Polydectes was abusing Danae
