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Greek Mythology Exam 2 – Questions & Complete Answers (100% Correct) Greek Mythology Exam 2 – Questions & Complete Answers (100% Correct) The city of Delphi is sacred to which two gods? - ANSWER - Apollo & Dionysus In the opening of the Iliad, our oldest reference to the god Apollo, what aspect of the god is emphasized? - ANSWER - Apollo as plague bringer The episode of Chryses and Chriseis emphasizes what? - ANSWER - Gods are fiercely protective of their prophets The Homeric Hy...

WGU C100 HUMANITIES FINAL EXAM 2024 What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? - correct answer Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? - correct answer Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? - correct answer Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? - correct answer The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? - correct answer Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the larges...

What are the three abrahamic religions? Correct Answer-Judaism, Christianity, Islam What are 2 great scholars that influenced Christianity Correct Answer-Maimonides and Ibn Sina All three religions were influenced by what type of thought Correct Answer-Greek thought (Aristotle, Plato, Galen) Who is Elliot Dorff Correct Answer-Conservative Rabbi, Professor and bioethicist. Created a list of fundamental Jewish themes/beliefs regarding health care Covenant Correct Answer-An agreement be...

What is theatre? - Answer-Communication, subjective, live storytelling, conflict and resolution, education, course, transfer of information, entertainment, business, collaborative art form, interactive, building, holding mirror, scope (theatre of war), soapbox, human experience, opinion, place to see live performance, career, improvisation Theatre started with _____ first & _____ second - Answer-Greeks, Romans Greatest influence for western theatre - Answer-Greeks, Elizabethan Renaissance, ...

Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)() - Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450. Early Dark Age(1250-900): - -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline. -Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over. -1250 marks Trojan war. Late Dark Age (900-750): - -Population growth and new trade. -800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700- Greeks settle in Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy) Archaic (750-480) - -Rise of ...

History - Not just whag happened but the people that were there and participated in it and the people that came along later and wrote about it later after researching it Schools of History - Geographical determinists, economic determinists, biographical determinists, theological determinists Pessimistic philosophy of history - The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from history Optimistic philosophy of history - Everything is great and Jesus is gonna come bac...

Ritual - A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - Founder of greek tragedy. Most famous play=Agamemno Euripides - 3 great tragedians of classical g...

Myth correct answer: word, speech, tale story used for stories primarily dealing with gods and humans' relations with them comes from Greek mythos Legend (Saga) correct answer: tale with a relationship to history may be imaginative/fantastic but has roots in historical fact Folktales correct answer: stories of adventures of common "folk", sometimes with fantastic creatures, and the hero/heroine wins with a fantastic strategy follow typical motifs and primary role is to te...

Three Phases of Creativity - Ans Gift from Gods, Renaissance to Humanisms, Psychological and Contextual Influences Gift from Gods Phase of Creativity - Ans 1000BC to 200BC Garnered from Bible/Homer Bicameral Mind Gods "inspired people" Multiple Gods=Paganism Drive for Honor Greek Golden Age was 500 to 200BC Renaissance to Humanisms Phase of Creativity - Ans 1350 AD to 1500s AD End of Dark Ages, Post-Plague Patronage Shifts Rise of the Artisans Self Responsiblity

Freud interpreted Myth through which lens - Answer-psychology Who is our main source for Greek stories of creation? - Answer-Hesiod Who is the earliest female ancestor of the gods? - Answer-Gaia Creation myths are - Answer-divine myths Who is most person famous from antiquity to argue that myths were not true? - Answer-Aristotle Who is associated with the oldest epics in Greece? - Answer-Homer Anthropomorphic means - Answer-Having human characteristics A symbolic interpretation of myth ar...