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Classical Mythology- Exam 1 Questions
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Divine Myth - answer Stories in which supernatural beings are the main actors

Legend - answer Stories of the great deeds of human heroes and heroines

Folktale - answer Stories whose actors are ordinary people or animals

Etiological Tale - answer -The etiological tale expresses a conjecture about the
cause of something that existed long before the explanation.
-We can describe an explanatory myth as etiological.
-the creation myth is an example of a etiological myth because it explains the causes
that brought the world into existence

Folktale Types - answer The regular appearance of identifiable folktale types, even
in stories from culture widely separated in space and time
-Scholars recognize more than 700 folktale types in traditions around the globe (it is
sometimes named after a famous example)

Folktale motifs - answer Folktale types are made up of smaller elements called
folktale motifs that can be recombined in endless variety.
-A type may occasionally consist of a single motif, but folktales usually have several
motifs, and we might think of folktale motifs as the cells that make up the body of a tale.
-A folktale type is thus a constellation of motifs that constitutes an independent story,
that is, a story that makes sense in itself and does not depend on its relation to some
larger story.

Boeotia - answer In the south (of southern and central Greece) lies Boeotia, in which
the principal settlement in ancient times was the city of Thebes.

Attica - answer Southeast of Boeotia, Athens as its capital

Peloponnesus - answer Farther south, on the smaller peninsula is Peloponnesus,
connected to the mainland by a thread of land called Isthmus, are other cultivable
plains.

Laconia - answer Also called Lacedaemon, is the territory around the town of Sparta

Euboea - answer The Greeks had access to excellent deposits of limestone and
clay- the best limestone was found on the island of Euboea.

,Aegean Sea - answer The greatest Greek natural resource was the sea.
-The Aegean sea between the Balkan peninsula and Asia Minor played a central role in
the life of the ancient Greeks.
-most lived near the sea and took from it the fish that were a staple of their diet
-it was also an avenue of communication with the world beyond the mountains that
enclosed the isolated Greek communities.

Cyclades - answer Principal group of islands that are placed in a rough circle around
the tiny central island of Delos, sacred to Apollo and Artemis

Indo-Europeans - answer The people later called the Greeks belonged to a cultural
and linguistic group known as the Indo-Europeans, whose original homeland apparently
was in central Asia, perhaps east of the Caspian Sea.

Late Bronze Age - answer -Spectacular ruins and written documents survive from
these ages
-They were named for the enormous stone citadel of Mycenae in the Peloponnesus

Mycenaean Age - answer Powerful kings ruled the Greeks- the kinds and their
retainers constituted a military and an aristocratic elite.
-they were lovers of war who used bronze weapons, rode the battle in horse-drawn
chariots, and concentrated great wealth

Achaeans - answer The Mycenaean Greeks may have called themselves the
Achaeans, which is a word Homer uses to describe the men who attacked Troy.

Linear B - answer In the ruins of the Minoan civilization, we have found documents
written in Greek in a nonalphabetic script called linear B.
-the writing consisted of about 80 non-alphabetic signs, each of which stood for a
syllable.

Dark Age - answer A time of profound social disorganization, depopulation, and
impoverishment.
-Petty kings with only local authority replaced the great monarchs of the Mycenaean
Age.

Ionia - answer Refugees from the Peloponnesus, passing through Athens and now
called Ionians, took possession of the central islands of the Aegean and the central
sector of the wastern coast of Asia Minor, known as Ionia.

Archaic Period - answer The period of political and cultural revival that began with
the invention of the alphabet marks the beginning of a new era in Greek history

Polis - answer The Archaic period witnessed the emergence of the Greek polis, the
politically independent city-state.
-the members of polis owed their allegiance to a social group defined by geography

, -In the polis appeared for the first time the explicit concept of citizenship, so important to
the modern state.

Classical Period - answer The second stunning victory over the Persians, under
Athenian leadership at sea and Spartan on land, is a convenient dividing point between
the Archaic Age and the brief classical period
-During the classical period, the golden age of Greece, worked many of the most
influential thinkers, artists, and politicians who ever lived.

Peloponnesian War - answer -Once the Persian threat receded, they settled into two
loosely organized rival leagues, one led by Sparta, a military state ruled by an old
fashioned aristocracy, the other by democratic Athens.
-These leagues fought each other in a ruinous conflict known as the Peloponnesian
war- Greece never recovered

Hellenistic Period - answer -Hellenic refers to anything Greek
-Hellenistic refers to the historical period that began with the death of Alexander the
Great.
-After his death, his empire quickly broke up into separate and hostile kingdoms, but
Greek culture became world culture.

Pederasty - answer Love for boys
-Isolated from the female sex, men in their twenties gathered at the exercise ground to
admire the prepubescent boys and to court them through gifts and poetry

Hoplites - answer Heavily armed men- each man had to pay for his own equipment,
which was often artistic and beautifully made

Parthenos - answer The period between first menstruation and marriage was one of
the great danger to a girl, her family, and society itself. (unmarried virgin)
-the girl was thought to be wild and dangerous

Miasma - answer Childbirth was a moment of personal crisis, because many women
died from it, but also of enormous pollution called miasma, because of the blood and
other fluids that attend childbirth

Narcissus - answer A youth of tremendous good looks- his parents wanted to know
whether their son would have a long life- a prophet said very long if he does not look at
his own face
-when he was grown, he saw his reflection in a spring. Reaching for the beautiful figure
he fell in and drowned.
-body changed into a flower that still bears his name.

Roman Period - answer The roman period in ancient history, as distinguished from
the Hellenistic period, may conveniently be dated from 30 BC, when Egypt, the
Hellenistic cultural center, fell into Roman hands

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