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Classical Mythology Unit 1 Questions and Answers myth a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society; derived from Greek mythos; critic Aristotle made the designation for plot of a play mythos word, speech, t...

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Classical Mythology Unit 1 Questions
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myth - answer a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the
natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society; derived from Greek mythos; critic
Aristotle made the designation for plot of a play

mythos - answer word, speech, tale, or story

saga - answer a narrative of heroic exploits; a long, detailed account with historical
elements

legend - answer A narrative handed down from the past, containing historical
elements and usually supernatural elements, basis in historical fact

folktale - answer a story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a
community's tradition, meant to entertain

fairytales - answer kind of folktale short, imaginative, traditional tales with a high
moral and magical content

Aristotle - answer Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the
Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics,
and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system,
which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows
empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of
rational inquiry.

mythical - answer based on or told of in traditional stories; fiction

etiology - answer the philosophical study of causation

etiological - answer of or pertaining to assignment of causes or origins; explanatory

Euhemerus - answer 3rd century BCE Greek who claimed that Greek myth sprang
from actual historical events and personages.

Euhemerism - answer the theory that the gods had originally been human beings
who were worshiped in their own lives for their accomplishments and later, after their
deaths, were divined as local gods; advanced originally by Euhemerus (c. 330-260
BCE)

, metaphorical interpretation - answer looking at myths as more metaphorical rather
than literal; believe traditional tales hide profound meanings

classical myth - answer story that has attained immortality because its inherent
archetypal beauty, profundity, and power have inspired rewarding renewal &
transformation by successive generations

Apollodorus - answer 2nd c. CE Greek writer of Bibliotheca around 150 CE, a library
of Greek mythology

Pausanias - answer He wrote Description of Greece, Periegesis, a ten book long
guidebook for tourists 150 CE

Plato - answer (430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of
thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection, used
myth in books for didactic purposes and developed philosophical myth from known
myths

Homer - answer ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and
the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)

Vergil - answer (70 - 19 BCE) One of the greatest of the Roman poets during the
"Golden Age" of Latin literature; patronized by Augustus; author of the Aeneid.

Lucian - answer 2nd century CE Syrian/Greek satirist retold archaic myth for
philosophical and satirical purposes

Ovid - answer Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BCE - CE
17) wrote Metamorphosis (8 CE) single most important source of classical myth

Livy - answer Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which
only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17);
wrote foundation myths of Rome in 1st book of Ab Urb Condita.

Herodotus - answer the ancient Greek known as the father of history

Iliad - answer a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy

Odyssey - answer a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of
Odysseus after the fall of Troy

Mycenaeans - answer first Greek-speaking people; invaded Minoans; dominated
Greek world 1400 B.C. to 1200 BCE; sea traders; lived in separate city-states; involved
in Trojan War against Troy

Trojans - answer of the City of Troy along the Hellespont in Asia Minor

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