CLC 106: CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY TEST
1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT!!
, ritual - ANSWER Traditional pattern of Action
Apollonius - ANSWER wrote the Argonautica about the quest for the Golden Fleece
philosophy - ANSWER Rational inquiry into natural world and human ethics
mythography - ANSWER systematic collection and uncritical recording of stories about
gods and heroes
Ionian - ANSWER tribe of Greeks who reportedly migrated through Attica into the
central Aegean and to the coast of Anatolia; they had reportedly been displaced by
another tribe of Greeks
323 BCE - ANSWER Alexander the Great dies (Hellenism)
480 BCE - ANSWER defeat by the united Greeks of the Persian Empire at the battles of
Salamis and Plataea: followed by the flowering of art and literature in Athens
Linear A - ANSWER system of writing employed by the Minoans in the Bronze Age
Cuneiform - ANSWER first known writing system, which used wedge-shaped symbols
developed in the Neolithic age
Phoenicians - ANSWER Semitic people who traded the settled widely in the
Mediterranean during iron age; their syllabary was adapted by the Greeks to create the
alphabet
Plato - ANSWER ancient Greek philosopher who would have banned poets and their
traditional tales from his ideal state
Theagenes - ANSWER Thinker widely credited with being the first to interpret myth
allegorically
Homeric myth is to be understood allegorically in terms of the physical world. Poseidon
vs. Apollo = Sea vs. Sun = Water vs. Fire Zeus vs. Hera = Lightning vs. Air
Sir James Frazer - ANSWER Classical scholar and armchair anthropologist: according
to him, myths across the globe arise from a primordial rite that involved the killing of the
king, who embodies the fertility of the crops (author of The Golden Bough, first edition
1890)
1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT!!
, ritual - ANSWER Traditional pattern of Action
Apollonius - ANSWER wrote the Argonautica about the quest for the Golden Fleece
philosophy - ANSWER Rational inquiry into natural world and human ethics
mythography - ANSWER systematic collection and uncritical recording of stories about
gods and heroes
Ionian - ANSWER tribe of Greeks who reportedly migrated through Attica into the
central Aegean and to the coast of Anatolia; they had reportedly been displaced by
another tribe of Greeks
323 BCE - ANSWER Alexander the Great dies (Hellenism)
480 BCE - ANSWER defeat by the united Greeks of the Persian Empire at the battles of
Salamis and Plataea: followed by the flowering of art and literature in Athens
Linear A - ANSWER system of writing employed by the Minoans in the Bronze Age
Cuneiform - ANSWER first known writing system, which used wedge-shaped symbols
developed in the Neolithic age
Phoenicians - ANSWER Semitic people who traded the settled widely in the
Mediterranean during iron age; their syllabary was adapted by the Greeks to create the
alphabet
Plato - ANSWER ancient Greek philosopher who would have banned poets and their
traditional tales from his ideal state
Theagenes - ANSWER Thinker widely credited with being the first to interpret myth
allegorically
Homeric myth is to be understood allegorically in terms of the physical world. Poseidon
vs. Apollo = Sea vs. Sun = Water vs. Fire Zeus vs. Hera = Lightning vs. Air
Sir James Frazer - ANSWER Classical scholar and armchair anthropologist: according
to him, myths across the globe arise from a primordial rite that involved the killing of the
king, who embodies the fertility of the crops (author of The Golden Bough, first edition
1890)
