CLA EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED TO PASS

divine myth - about gods/goddesses or dietis , can sometimes take on human or animal form legend - (saga) usually about heroes legend is to history as myth is to science folktale - about ordinary people. usually helps you with making decisions etiological tale - story that explains the origins of an event or phenomonon folktale types - group of folktales with similar elements folktale motiff - smaller elements that make up folktale, (only child) Boeotia - "cow land", city of Thebes Attica - City of Athens Peloponnesus - region in Greece that connects mainland Laconia - Sparta, Mycenaeans Euboea - limestone, emerged after Dark Ages Aegean Sea - body of water that connects ancient greece Achaens - what people in greece referred to themselves to, not greeks Linear B - language in Late bronze age Mycenaean language Dark age - (1150-800) when greece was taken over by Dorians. Ionia - Mycenaean refugees that crossed Aegean sea, now called Ionia Archaic Period - (800-490), alphabet, commerce, coins, polis, literature, homer and hesoid persian war polis - city states, citizenship=identifying outside of family Classical Period - (490-323), Clistheries=democracy, Aeschylus , sopocles, euriphides, socrates, plato, artistole death of alexander Peloponnesian war - civil war for greeks Hellenistic Period - (323-30) alexander's conquest divided into 3 kingdoms Greek history turns into roman pederasty - sexual relationship between teenage boy and men in their twenties hoplites - armed infantrymen with shield and spear parthenos - period of womens life when its the most dangerous, first period to marriage miasma - blood pollution, killing and childbirth Narcissus - man who fell in love with himself and turned into a flower Roman Period - after hellenistic period, fall of greek, into roman history Etruscans - like greeks, lived in independent city states potnia theron - "lady of the beast" goddess of fertility (artemis) Mesopotamia - between river Sumerians - lived in mesopotamia An - Sumerian sky god (uranus) Inanna - Sumerian god of love and war (aphrodite & athena) Enlil - Sumerian lord of storm, (zeus) Enki - Sumerian lord of earth, freshwater Semites - Akkadian, Hebrew, Babyloanian (name of people who belong in linguistic group) Akkadians - Overran sumerian empire Hebrews - migrated to mesopotamia epic - long poems in heroic theme Hesiod - theogony and cosogomy 700bce Homeric Hymns - songs that praised gods, not written by homer HELLNISTIC MYTHS - Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, The "library" of Apollodorus Roman Myths - Vergil=fall of troy, roman people Ovid= poems and with metamorphoses, themes would change each episode cosmogony - telling tales of universe or world theogony - tales of gods Chaos - premorial god of universe(gaea and tartarus) Gaea - mother earth, bores Uranus, uranus+gaea=titans rhea+cronus(titans)=olympians Uranus - son of gaea, sex with gaea children are titans (12) Themis(law), Mnemosyn(memory), Hyperion (sun), Oceanus(water), Thethys(water, female) Cronus(father of)