CLC 106 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers

CLC 106 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Ritual - Answer-A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Answer-Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Answer-Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Answer-Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Answer-Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - Answer-Founder of greek tragedy. Most famous play=Agamemno Euripides - Answer-3 great tragedians of classical greek. Only 18 of 95 plays survived Sophocles - Answer-Wrote Oedipus The King, Antigone, Women of Trachus Apollonius of Rhodes - Answer-Wrote the Argonautica about the quest for the golden fleece Homer - Answer-Composed the Lliad and the Odyssey about Trojan War. Hesiod - Answer-Composed the Theogony about the origin of the gods Vergil - Answer-Wrote the Aeneid about an early immigrant to Italy Ovid - Answer-Wrote the Metamorphoses about all mythical history Order oldest to youngest (Homer, Hesiod, Vergil, Ovid, Apollonius of Rhodes) - Answer1. Homer 2. Hesiod 3. Apollonius of Rhodes 4. Vergil 5. Ovid *1=oldest, 5=latest Philosophy - Answer-Rational injury into the natural world and human ethics. Tragedy - Answer-Form of entertainment. Themes: Horror, violence, conflict between sexes. Hymn - Answer-A metrical adress invoking God/Goddess by listing cultic names and telling important stories about the diety Epic - Answer-Long narrative poem celebrating the deeds of heroes Homeric Hymns - Answer-Collection of 33 greek poems composed in the old epic style Mythography - Answer-Systematic collection and uncritical recording of stories about gods and heroes Euhemerism - Answer-The thesis that gods once were humans Etymology - Answer-The original or true meaning of a word Etiology - Answer-An account of something's origin or cause Allegory - Answer-Symbolic expression, speaking about one thing in terms of another 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 Dorians - Answer-Tribe of greeks who reportedly migrated into central and southern Greece after the Bronze Age, displacing other Greek tribes; associated in legend with descendants of Heracles Mycenaean - Answer-Greek culture in Greece during the Late Bronze Age Indo-European - Answer-Greek culture on Crete during the Late Bronze Age Proto-Indo European - Answer-Large, widespread family or languages to which belong not only to greek, latin, and sanskrit, but also germanic language like english 323 B.C. - Answer-Date of death of Alexander the Great, which began the Hellenistic period 480 B.C. - Answer-Date of defeat of Persian Empire by the united Greeks at the battle of Salamis and Platea; followed by art and literature in Athens B.C. - Answer-Bronze Age in Greece and Aegean Age and Periods from oldest to youngest - Answer-1. Bronze 2. Greek Dark/Iron Age 3. Archaic Period 4. Classic Period 5. Hellenistic Period 6. Imperial/Roman Period 1200-800 B.C. - Answer-Greek Dark/Iron Age 800-400 B.C. - Answer-Archaic Period Linear A - Answer-System of writing employed by the Minoans in Bronze Age Cuneiform - Answer-1st writing system, developed in Neolithic Age Linear B - Answer-Syllabic script used by Mycenaean Greek