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Greek and Roman Mythology Midterm Questions and answers 2024 4. When were the Homeric epics written down?: in the 8th century B.C. 5. Where is the great palace on Crete located?: Cnossos 6. What is Linear B?: An ancient Greek language

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Greek and Roman Mythology Midterm
Questions and answers 2024

1. According to your textbook, true myth or myth proper is a term for:: a story primarily concerned with gods and
human relations with them.

2. According to your textbook, a folktale is a term for:: a story of adventure, told mainly to entertain

3. Which author and work are NOT related?: Hesiod and The Arognautica

4. When were the Homeric epics written down?: in the 8th century B.C.

5. Where is the great palace on Crete located?: Cnossos

6. What is Linear B?: An ancient Greek language

7. According to your textbook, modern archaeology is proving that the Trojan War:: happened much as Homer
wrote

8. According to your textbook, a saga or legend is a term for:: a story with a perceptible relationship with
history, though imaginative

9. Which of the following are ALL Greek sources of myth?: Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles and Homer

10.What is a tholos tomb?: A beehive shaped structure

11.How did Phaethon die?: Zeus killed him with thunder and lightning

12.Which author, as far as we can tell, was the first to give a systematic explanation of how the universe
came to be?: Hesiod

13.What, in Greek, was Pandora's box?: Pithos

14.Through what event did Deucalion and Pyrrha live?: The Flood

15.Which brother and sister pair represent the sun and the moon?: Apollo and Artemis
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Questions and answers 2024
16.Ovid changes Hesiod's account of creation as follows:: Chaos is not a void, but raw material a god uses to make
the universe

17. Which divinities inspire the poets to sing about the other gods?: The Muses

18.What does the name "Aphrodite" probably mean?: Foam born

19.With what object did Rhea fool Cronus?: A stone

20.Which great monster(s) opposed Zeus?: Typhoeus

21. Which of the following did Aristotle not attribute as a function of sacrifice?-

: to help to go to heaven

22.Zeus and Themis gave birth to:: The Three Fates

23.According to myth, who founded the original Olympic Games?: Heracles, son of Zeus

24.Which mortal was carried off to serve Zeus on Olympus?: Ganymede

25.According to your text, the "Tragedy of Croesus" crystallizes the tragic yet uplifting nature of:: Greek
humanism

26.Which of the following is not a characteristic of 'diverse Zeus?': Creator of mankind

27.Zeus and Memory gave birth to:: The Nine Muses

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28.What Greek religious idea is depicted in the story of Croesus, Atys, and Adrastus?: Nemesis

29.Why is Hestia important to the Greeks?: She personifies all-important fire for the home

30.Xenophanes' attack on the conventional depiction of the Greek gods was mainly directed against:: Their
anthropomorphism

31.What does the Greek word arete mean?: Excellence

32.Who is the most famous Gorgon?: Medusa

33.Your book suggests that the name "Aphrodite" probably means:: Foam

34.With what animal is Athena associated?: Owl

35.What beings shared one eye and one tooth?: The Graeae

36.Which of the following is not a characteristic of Athena?: Her strength

37.What does the name of Athena's temple 'Parthenon' mean?: Virgin

38.Which Nereid is Poseidon's wife?: Amphitrite

39.Despite the version, how do Roman and Greek mythology state the Scylla was changed from a beauty to a
terrifying monster?: By a poisoned bath

40.Which of the following areas is not a characteristic of Poseidon?: First ruler of the ocean

41.Who of the following did not offend Artemis?: Hippolytus

42.Which are the attendants of Aphrodite?: Graces and Seasons

43.For what deed was Apollo sentenced to work for Admetus?: Killing the Cyclopes
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