CLAS 101 Exam 1| WITH complete solution 2023/24

CLAS 101 Exam 1| WITH complete solution 2023/24 | Mycenaean Period - BCE Greek Dark Ages - 1100-808 BCE Achaic Period - 800-481 BCE Classical Period - 480-323 BCE Hellenistic Period - 323-31 BCE Foundation of Rome - 753 BCE Birth of the Republic - 509 BCE End of Third Punic War: Rome destroys Carthage - 146 BCE Assassination of Julius Caesar - 44 BCE Octavian hailed as Augustus, birth of Empire - 27 BCE Constantine relocates capital to Byzantium - 330 BCE Deposition of final Roman Emperor - 476 BCE Epipgraphy - Inscriptions Forms of ancient propaganda? - Images on coins Papyrology - Medium for text Type of religious society? - Orthopraxia Herodotus and Thucydides - Greek historians Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes - 4 different Ancient Greek writers/dramatists who wrote comedies and tragedies Demosthenes and Cicero - Greek orators, practiced rhetoric Terence and Seneca the Younger - Writers of Roman tragedy and comedy Catullus and Vergil - Writers of Roman poetry Sallust - First Roman historian to organize events into a narrative Livi - Roman historian Philology - Study/love of language and literature Criterion plural - Criteria Antennae plural - Antennae Hypothesis plural - Hypotheses Matrix plural - Matrices Corpus plural - Corpora Curriculum plural - Curricula Theogony - "The" = the gods "Gon" = the origin The origin of the gods Gaia - Goddess of the earth, mother of Cronus and the Titans Uranus - Father Sky, loses his balls (becomes Aphrodite) Cronus/Saturn - Titan ruler of the universe, father of Zeus Rhea - Wife of Cronus, mother of Zeus Zeus/Jupiter - King of the gods, god of the sky Hera/Juno - Queen of the gods, goddess of marriage and childbirth, wife of Zeus Poseidon/Neptune - Brother of Zeus, god of the sea Demeter/Ceres - Goddess of agriculture Etiology - The cause/reason for something happening Aphrodite/Venus - Goddess of love and beauty, 'the foam goddess' Hephaestus/Vulcan - God of fire and forge, husband of Aphrodite (via forced marriage) Ares/Mars - God of war Athena/Minerva - Goddess of wisdom and war, virgin goddess Artemis/Diana - Goddess of the hunt Apollo - God of prophecy The Muses - Nine sisters who give song and inspiration to humanity; daughters of Zeus and Mnemonsyne (Memory) Iris - Goddess of the rainbow, messenger of the gods Hermes/Mercury - Messenger of the gods, God of commerce and theft Asclepius - God of medicine Dionysus/Bacchus - God of wine Hades/Pluto - God of the underworld Tantalus - Invited gods and goddesses to a feast, chopped up son and tried to feed them it to test their omnipotence. Punished to eternal hunger and thirst in the underworld Sisyphus - A king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and he was forced to start again Ixion - Sentenced to the underworld for trying to seduce Hera, tied to a flaming wheel Atlas and Prometheus - Phrixus and Helle - 2 children rescued by a golden ram; Helle fell off in the Hellespont; Phrixus ends up in Colchis; the fleece of the ram is saved as a treasure Pelias - Jason and Medea - Half Brother of Aeson Usurped the throne from Aeson Sent Jason on quest for golden fleece Argo - The ship manned by Jason and his crew of Greek heroes on their quest for the Golden Fleece Orpheus - (Greek mythology) a great musician Boreads - Sons of Boreas (the North Wind) who were summoned by Jason to board the Argo Dioscuri - Castor and Pollux; patrons of horsemen and knights Heracles - God of strength Hylas and the nymphs - Hylas, loved by Heracles, goes to draw water, nymphs pull him in, never seen again Clashing Rocks (Symplegades) - A number of rocks that would smash ships whenever they tried to pass through. Only the Argo made it through Medea - Sorceress or enchantress; from Medea who helped Jason and the Argonauts capture the Golden Fleece; known for her revenge against Jason when he spurned her for the princess of Corinth Bronze Bulls - Talos - Was a giant man of bronze who protected Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders by circling the island's s