CLAS 220 Exam 1 UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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CLAS 220
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CLAS 220
CLAS 220 Exam 1 UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Lecture 1, Introduction - Correct AnswerMythos vs. Logos, Originally - Correct Answer- -Mythos: authoritative story about the world
-Logos: just one of many stories; not authoritative
Mythos vs. Logos, Later - Correct Answer- -Mythos:...
Mythos vs. Logos, Originally - Correct Answer- -Mythos: authoritative story about the world
-Logos: just one of many stories; not authoritative
Mythos vs. Logos, Later - Correct Answer- -Mythos: marked as "not true"
-Logos: marked as true, not because it works, but because it's right
What is a myth? - Correct Answer- -an authoritative story about the world, accepted within a
given community as true
-can take many different forms and variations
-majority of Greek and Roman myth comes from literary texts
What is ritual? - Correct Answer- -regularly recurring action
-done for its symbolic value
-special places, times, words, objects, people
-set apart from daily life
-ex. Thanksgiving dinner
What is religion? - Correct Answer- -Religion=myth + ritual
-myth explains ritual, and gives it a context
-ritual brings myth into the here-and-now
-no word for religion in Greek or Latin because it's not separable from the rest of life
(myth/ritual are part of life)
, Panhellenic - Correct Answer- All Greek
Polis - Correct Answer- city-state
The most important aspect of local religion is: - Correct Answer- the hero
Lecture 2, The Goddesses: The Homeric Hymns - Correct Answer-
Hera - Correct Answer- -wife of Zeus (and sister)
-Goddess of marriage
-represented seducing her husband
-always seeking vengeance for husband's infidelities
-Mother Ares, Hephaestus, and minor deities Hebe (youth) and Eileithyia (childbirth)
Demeter - Correct Answer- -name makes her a mother-goddess
-Goddess of grain and of the harvest
-daughter, Persephone, becomes queen of the underworld
Athena - Correct Answer- -Goddess of the city (Athens), crafts, the olive tree, civilization,
cunning
-Virgin goddess
-daughter of Zeus and Metis, who was foretold to bear a child more powerful than her father.
-Zeus swallows Metis and Athena is born out of Zeus' head, fully armed
Artemis - Correct Answer- -Goddess of sacrifice, sometimes associated with Moon.
-Mistress of the Animals, huntress
-associated with the moments of initiation in the lives of young women (menstruation,
childbirth)
-twin sister Apollo
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