CLA 210 NCSU Exam 1 (Heinen) 2025 UPDATE|
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Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)(1600-1150) - (ANSWER)Mycenae takes over
Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450.
Early Dark Age(1250-900): - (ANSWER)-Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted
in cultural and literary decline.
-Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over.
-1250 marks Trojan war.
Late Dark Age (900-750): - (ANSWER)-Population growth and new trade.
-800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna
Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy)
Archaic (750-480) - (ANSWER)-Rise of City States (Thebes, Athens, and Sparta)
-499: Ionian Greeks rebel which creates conflict with Persia. 479- Xerxes was
driven from Greece.
Classical(480-323): - (ANSWER)-First democracy.
-Athens is famous.
-We see the rise of culture and lit (Socrates, Plato, Euripides, Xenphon)
,Hellenistic(323-30): - (ANSWER)-Alexander the Great dies, Greece falls.
-Greeks then adapt Roman culture, Rome expands beyond Italy, Romans translate
Greek lit into Roman.
Linear B - (ANSWER)-A script that recorded a form of Mycenaean Greek script
and deciphered in 1952 (Ventris.) Used for keeping economic accounts. Found in
Pylos, Mycenae, &Thebes (showing cultural uniformity)
Isis - (ANSWER)- Egyptian
Inanna/Ishtar - (ANSWER)-Egyptian (Babylonian)
-Goddess of love & fertility (Meso diety).
-Attempts to seduce Gilgamesh; fails.
Gilgamesh - (ANSWER)-Egyptian (Babylonian)
-King of Uruk
Enkidu - (ANSWER)-Babylonian
-Sent by gods to divert Gilgamesh to relieve people
-Wild, naked and uncivilized until tamed by prostitute
-Fights and then becomes Gilgamesh's BFF
,Epic of Gilgamesh - (ANSWER)-Enkidu sent to help people of Uruk by stopping
Gilgamesh
-After fight, Enkidu and Gilgamesh become friends
-Both go on journey to Cedar Mtn to defeat Humbaba
-Kill Bull of Heaven sent by Ishtar
-Enkidu sentenced to death
-After Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh goes on journey for eternal life... doesn't find it.
-This resembles....
Hesiod - (ANSWER)-1st European writer
-"Theogony" most important mythical texts to survive
Theogony - (ANSWER)-written by Hesiod
-Tells the origin of the universe through succeeding generations of gods.
-an elaborate hymn to Zeus
Homer - (ANSWER)-The man
-some of our earliest greek lit
-written down once greek alphabet was established, oral stories before that.
Homeric Hymns - (ANSWER)-during archaic period
-collection of poems
, -composed orally
-written to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite
-performed in specific places by aoidoi
Apollodorus - (ANSWER)-most surviving work of the mythographers
-straight forward account of mythical events from creation to death of Odyssesus
-primary source for creation story
Three Primordal elements - (ANSWER)1) Chaos, then
2) Gaea (Earth), then
3) Tartarus (base of things)
---4) Eros (sex)
"There was Gaea.. and then Tartatus.."
Cronus - (ANSWER)-Parents: Uranus (Sky) & Gaea (Earth)
-Last born Titan
-Clever; hated father
-Uranus made Gaea hide their children inside her. Gaea is mad and comes up
comes up with plot to castrate Uranus.. Cronus does the deed
- Told by Uranus and Gaea he would be overthrown by a son so he swallows his
children as they are born.
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS (COMPLETE SOLUTIONS) GUARANTEED
SUCCESS |GRADE A+!! (100% ACCURATE) GET IT
RIGHT!!
Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)(1600-1150) - (ANSWER)Mycenae takes over
Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450.
Early Dark Age(1250-900): - (ANSWER)-Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted
in cultural and literary decline.
-Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over.
-1250 marks Trojan war.
Late Dark Age (900-750): - (ANSWER)-Population growth and new trade.
-800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna
Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy)
Archaic (750-480) - (ANSWER)-Rise of City States (Thebes, Athens, and Sparta)
-499: Ionian Greeks rebel which creates conflict with Persia. 479- Xerxes was
driven from Greece.
Classical(480-323): - (ANSWER)-First democracy.
-Athens is famous.
-We see the rise of culture and lit (Socrates, Plato, Euripides, Xenphon)
,Hellenistic(323-30): - (ANSWER)-Alexander the Great dies, Greece falls.
-Greeks then adapt Roman culture, Rome expands beyond Italy, Romans translate
Greek lit into Roman.
Linear B - (ANSWER)-A script that recorded a form of Mycenaean Greek script
and deciphered in 1952 (Ventris.) Used for keeping economic accounts. Found in
Pylos, Mycenae, &Thebes (showing cultural uniformity)
Isis - (ANSWER)- Egyptian
Inanna/Ishtar - (ANSWER)-Egyptian (Babylonian)
-Goddess of love & fertility (Meso diety).
-Attempts to seduce Gilgamesh; fails.
Gilgamesh - (ANSWER)-Egyptian (Babylonian)
-King of Uruk
Enkidu - (ANSWER)-Babylonian
-Sent by gods to divert Gilgamesh to relieve people
-Wild, naked and uncivilized until tamed by prostitute
-Fights and then becomes Gilgamesh's BFF
,Epic of Gilgamesh - (ANSWER)-Enkidu sent to help people of Uruk by stopping
Gilgamesh
-After fight, Enkidu and Gilgamesh become friends
-Both go on journey to Cedar Mtn to defeat Humbaba
-Kill Bull of Heaven sent by Ishtar
-Enkidu sentenced to death
-After Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh goes on journey for eternal life... doesn't find it.
-This resembles....
Hesiod - (ANSWER)-1st European writer
-"Theogony" most important mythical texts to survive
Theogony - (ANSWER)-written by Hesiod
-Tells the origin of the universe through succeeding generations of gods.
-an elaborate hymn to Zeus
Homer - (ANSWER)-The man
-some of our earliest greek lit
-written down once greek alphabet was established, oral stories before that.
Homeric Hymns - (ANSWER)-during archaic period
-collection of poems
, -composed orally
-written to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite
-performed in specific places by aoidoi
Apollodorus - (ANSWER)-most surviving work of the mythographers
-straight forward account of mythical events from creation to death of Odyssesus
-primary source for creation story
Three Primordal elements - (ANSWER)1) Chaos, then
2) Gaea (Earth), then
3) Tartarus (base of things)
---4) Eros (sex)
"There was Gaea.. and then Tartatus.."
Cronus - (ANSWER)-Parents: Uranus (Sky) & Gaea (Earth)
-Last born Titan
-Clever; hated father
-Uranus made Gaea hide their children inside her. Gaea is mad and comes up
comes up with plot to castrate Uranus.. Cronus does the deed
- Told by Uranus and Gaea he would be overthrown by a son so he swallows his
children as they are born.
