CLST 101 Actual exam COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
2025(GRADED A+) DETAILED ANSWERS!!
Hamartia - (answers)a fatal flaw or mistake leading to the downfall of the tragic
hero
Peri Petei - (answers)Reversal of fortune
Anagnorisis - (answers)recognition
Katharsis - (answers)"purgation," tragedy should make you feel
Ephebe - (answers)An age of a young man; not ready to get married but ready for
war
Menis - (answers)godly rage, used for Achilles in first line of Iliad
Metis - (answers)cunning intelligence, Odysseus' epithet, Mother of Athena
Aganoria - (answers)excessive masculinity in a bad way, used for suitors
Aner - (answers)man, as opposed to god; first word of Odyssey
,androcentrism vs. patriarchy - (answers)men are the center of the social power
vs. fathers/husbands are the most important
Aristeia - (answers)being your best fighter (going on killing sprees); risks safety of
self and family, only way to get honor. Example: Hector
Imeros vs. Eros - (answers)love and sex vs. erotic love
Xenia - (answers)guest friendship, also the name of a person
hybis - (answers)abuse, is it ok to have sex with a young boy if he's going to grow
up and do the same thing?
pederasty - (answers)love of a young boy
hetaira - (answers)female companion, often immigrants
sophrosyne - (answers)self control/discipline, healthy mind
tribias - (answers)a woman whose sexual behaviors are non-normative
kinaedos - (answers)sexually weird/non-normative man
, Penelope - (answers)Odysseus' wife, shrewd and careful
Eurycleia - (answers)loyal slave and nurse of Odysseus
Slave girls in Odyssey - (answers)disloyal, slept with suitors, hung by Telemachus
in Book 22
Clytemnestra - (answers)kills Agamemnon because she was having an affair with
another man
Agamemnon - (answers)married to Clytemnestra, in charge of the Greek army,
takes Chryseis as a war prize, fights with Achilles about pride
Paris vs. Hector in the Iliad - (answers)debate of masculinity; hector: perfect
example of a manly man; paris: perfect example of a feminine man, aphrodite
takes him out of battle
Sappho - (answers)6th century poet in Lesbos, writes 9 books of lyrics, sung by
chorus.
Sappho 1 - (answers)written to Aphrodite, pulled down in a chariot by sparrows
from the sky, she will help find Sappho someone to love
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
2025(GRADED A+) DETAILED ANSWERS!!
Hamartia - (answers)a fatal flaw or mistake leading to the downfall of the tragic
hero
Peri Petei - (answers)Reversal of fortune
Anagnorisis - (answers)recognition
Katharsis - (answers)"purgation," tragedy should make you feel
Ephebe - (answers)An age of a young man; not ready to get married but ready for
war
Menis - (answers)godly rage, used for Achilles in first line of Iliad
Metis - (answers)cunning intelligence, Odysseus' epithet, Mother of Athena
Aganoria - (answers)excessive masculinity in a bad way, used for suitors
Aner - (answers)man, as opposed to god; first word of Odyssey
,androcentrism vs. patriarchy - (answers)men are the center of the social power
vs. fathers/husbands are the most important
Aristeia - (answers)being your best fighter (going on killing sprees); risks safety of
self and family, only way to get honor. Example: Hector
Imeros vs. Eros - (answers)love and sex vs. erotic love
Xenia - (answers)guest friendship, also the name of a person
hybis - (answers)abuse, is it ok to have sex with a young boy if he's going to grow
up and do the same thing?
pederasty - (answers)love of a young boy
hetaira - (answers)female companion, often immigrants
sophrosyne - (answers)self control/discipline, healthy mind
tribias - (answers)a woman whose sexual behaviors are non-normative
kinaedos - (answers)sexually weird/non-normative man
, Penelope - (answers)Odysseus' wife, shrewd and careful
Eurycleia - (answers)loyal slave and nurse of Odysseus
Slave girls in Odyssey - (answers)disloyal, slept with suitors, hung by Telemachus
in Book 22
Clytemnestra - (answers)kills Agamemnon because she was having an affair with
another man
Agamemnon - (answers)married to Clytemnestra, in charge of the Greek army,
takes Chryseis as a war prize, fights with Achilles about pride
Paris vs. Hector in the Iliad - (answers)debate of masculinity; hector: perfect
example of a manly man; paris: perfect example of a feminine man, aphrodite
takes him out of battle
Sappho - (answers)6th century poet in Lesbos, writes 9 books of lyrics, sung by
chorus.
Sappho 1 - (answers)written to Aphrodite, pulled down in a chariot by sparrows
from the sky, she will help find Sappho someone to love
