introduction to Classical Mythology exam with complete solution
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Course
Mythology
Institution
Mythology
What is a myth?
Greek origin --> mythos (spoken)
A story can stay the same for roughly 3 generations
Explain causes of things and how they came to be
Used in contemporary debates
What is creation?
every culture has own creation mythology of how things came to be and who they are
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introduction to Classical Mythology exam
with complete solution
What is a myth? - ANSWER-Greek origin --> mythos (spoken)
A story can stay the same for roughly 3 generations
Explain causes of things and how they came to be
Used in contemporary debates
What is creation? - ANSWER-every culture has own creation mythology of how things
came to be and who they are
explains how things should be
women inferior because came from Adam's rib
What is Theogony? - ANSWER-"birth of the gods"
How the gods came to be - gods are born and they have a family tree
Poem written by Hesoid
What is Chaos? - ANSWER-Disorder
Gap of empty space and is what everything else comes and emerges out of nothing
Who are the Muses? - ANSWER-Daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (memory)
Visit and give insight on past, present, and future
Who is Gaia? - ANSWER-"Mother Earth"
Couples with Uranus to create the Titans
What is Tartarus? - ANSWER-Physical abyss beneath the Earth
Where the dead go when they die
What is Eros? - ANSWER-"Desire"
Sexual desire
Who is Uranus/Ouranos? - ANSWER-SKY
,Couples with Gaia to create the Titans
What is wrong with Greeks creation myth? - ANSWER-No one oversees creation of
Earth, it just happens
Greeks were not worried about details --- no Greek holy book
No real Greek priest - no class of clergy
No overarching god, no overarching driving force
What is Hubris? - ANSWER-Pride that goes beyond proper boundaries
Very bad to have hubris
"No limit on what I can do"
Who are the Titans? - ANSWER-Children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky)
"large" "overreachers" "grasp too much"
Don't know where to stop
Relationship between Ouranos and Titans? - ANSWER-Ouranos scared Titans will take
over so he stuffs them back into Gaia
Who is Cronus? - ANSWER-The last born and the leader of the Titans
Strikes a deal with Gaia
Castrates Ouranos and throws genitals into sea (Foam around genitals creates
Aphrodite)
Ouranos retreats and Titans take over thrown
Sons Vs. Fathers - ANSWER-Psychological thing
Constant intergenerational fight for power - sons want to be on top but impossible when
dad is there
Rule of Three - ANSWER-It takes three generations for Olympian gods we know to take
their place
Significance of Last Born - ANSWER-Last born of each generation end up being on
top/leader
Cronus Children - ANSWER-Has 6 kids with Rhea (wife and sister)
Eats children but they're gods so they don't die --- live in his stomach
Rhea's Role - ANSWER-Wife and sister of Cronus
Has 6 children with Cronus and unhappy he keeps eating their children
Rhea disguises rock as Zeus (last born) and gives to Cronus to eat
, Zeus and Cronus - ANSWER-Zeus gives Cronus a drink that makes him vomit up
everything (kids and the stone)
Kids are thrown up in reverse order
Omphalos - ANSWER-Name of stone Cronus vomits up
"Naval" of the entire world
Aitiom/Aitia - ANSWER-Greeks love knowing why things are the way they are
Crete - ANSWER-Location where Zeus is hidden in a cave
Kouretes bang around instruments to muffle the cries of Zeus
Delphi - ANSWER-Rock that Rhea gave to Cronus in lieu of Zeus
The rock that Cronus vomits up becomes most religious Greek shrine
River Styx - ANSWER-1 of 5 Underworld Rivers
Loans sons (Kratos "power" & Bia "violence") to Zeus as bodyguards in exchange for
Zeus swearing by the river
Strongest oath
If you break oath as a god - you have to spend a year comatose and then 9 years in
isolation
Cyclope's - ANSWER-Blacksmiths that make Zeus' thunderbolt
Hundred Hander's - ANSWER-Literally have 100 hands and can throw 100 stones at
Titans
Buries Titans with too much stone and weight and they go down to Tartarus where
Cronus is chained for eternity
Typhon - ANSWER-Gaia unhappy so she gives birth to Typhon who is supposed to
overtake Zeus
Force of pure destruction
Utterly destructive and almost beats Zeus but Zeus strikes him with a thunderbolt at the
right time
Mount Etna - ANSWER-Zeus buried Typhon under Sicily so when volcano erupts it's
Typhon trying to get out
Role of Humans - ANSWER-When gods are in danger, humans can play a role in the
cosmos
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