Classical Mythology Unit 1 questions and answers well illustrated.

Classical Mythology Unit 1 questions and answers well illustrated. myth - correct answers.a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society; derived from Greek mythos; critic Aristotle made the designation for plot of a play mythos - correct , speech, tale, or story saga - correct answers.a narrative of heroic exploits; a long, detailed account with historical elements legend - correct answers.A narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements, basis in historical fact folktale - correct answers.a story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition, meant to entertain fairytales - correct of folktale short, imaginative, traditional tales with a high moral and magical content Aristotle - correct answers.Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry. mythical - correct on or told of in traditional stories; fiction etiology - correct philosophical study of causation etiological - correct or pertaining to assignment of causes or origins; explanatory Euhemerus - correct answers.3rd century BCE Greek who claimed that Greek myth sprang from actual historical events and personages. Euhemerism - correct theory that the gods had originally been human beings who were worshiped in their own lives for their accomplishments and later, after their deaths, were divined as local gods; advanced originally by Euhemerus (c. 330-260 BCE) metaphorical interpretation - correct ng at myths as more metaphorical rather than literal; believe traditional tales hide profound meanings classical myth - correct that has attained immortality because its inherent archetypal beauty, profundity, and power have inspired rewarding renewal & transformation by successive generations Apollodorus - correct answers.2nd c. CE Greek writer of Bibliotheca around 150 CE, a library of Greek mythology Pausanias - correct answers.He wrote Description of Greece, Periegesis, a ten book long guidebook for tourists 150 CE Plato - correct answers.(430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection, used myth in books for didactic purposes and developed philosophical myth from known myths Homer - correct nt Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC) Vergil - correct answers.(70 - 19 BCE) One of the greatest of the Roman poets during the "Golden Age" of Latin literature; patronized by Augustus; author of the Aeneid. Lucian - correct answers.2nd century CE Syrian/Greek satirist retold archaic myth for philosophical and satirical purposes Ovid - correct answers.Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BCE - CE 17) wrote Metamorphosis (8 CE) single most important source of classical myth Livy - correct answers.Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17); wrote foundation myths of Rome in 1st book of Ab Urb Condita. Herodotus - correct ancient Greek known as the father of history