CLA 210 Exam 1 Questions and Answers

CLA 210 Exam 1 Questions and Answers in order what are the major periods of civilization People Never Ever Bring More Liquor Even Dark Liquor Always Clinging Hellishly Rancid Paleolithic (beginning) Neolithic (farming settlements) Early Bronze (social ranking) Middle Bronze (Linear A) Late Bronze (Linear B-Mycenae) Early Dark/Iron (Mycenae destroyed) Late dark/Iron (Greek alphabet) Archaic (rise of city states) Classical (rise of culture/literature) Hellenistic (Greece is torn after Alexander the Great dies) Roman (Rome controls the Mediterranean) Linear B -written in Greek -Form of writing used by the Mycenaean -Either nonalphabetic sins, each of each of which stood for a syllable -Used only for keeping economic accounts -Not used for creating literature Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:02 / 0:15 Full screen Brainpower Read More Egyptian myth Isis = daughter of Rhea and Cronus • Myth also incorporates elements found in non-Egyptian myths of the fertility goddess o Isis is curiously ambivalent o She resurrects his power and ensures that the royal succession will pass to their son o Prominent is the theme of the death that ensures well-being Babylonian Inanna/Ishatar insatiable goddess of sex and war Gilgamesh and Enkidu 2/3 divine/ best friend Enkidu (who was sent to kill him but he sent a prostitute to tame him); refuses to sleep with Ishtar so leads the bull to him. Enkidu blinded but throws genitals at him and is slain what is the primary source for the creation story? Hesiod "Homer" Homeric Hymns Apollodorus three primordial elements Chaos, Gaea, Tartarus initial creation Chaos, Gaea, Tartaurs appeared then Eros (attraction) Chaos (asexually) Erebus (darkness0 Nyx (night) 4 titans Cronus: Cronus + Rhea = swallowed children Iapetus: Prometheus (protector of mortals) ; Epimetheus (Pandora's husband) Mnemosyne: goddess of memory; supply children for Zeus (Muses) Hyperion (original son god) and children: Helios "sun"; Selene "moon"; Eos "dawn" Titanomachy -Titans resented their rule and attacked the Olympians in the Titanomachy "battle of the titans" for ten full years did they battle no rest, no truce in the strife, no victory crowning their efforts -Gaea told Zeus that he could only win with the help from the Hecatonchires -He released them and the Cyclopes from Tartarus where their father Uranus (fearing their power) had imprisoned them -In gratitude the Cyclopes made Zeus the thunderbolt -Seething with anger Zeus showed the full extent of his power; ran down Mount Olympus hurling endless bolts of lightning; shriveling sight from the eyes of the Titans -he battle turned and the Hecatonchires (Cottus, Briareus, Gyes) hurled in rapid fire succession boulders until the overshadowed the Titans -Locked them in Tartarus under Poseidon's gates of iron with the Hecatochires as jailers -Atlas (Titan or Giant) was condemned by Zeus to live at the edge of the world, where he held up the heavens, ensuring the continued separation of Sky and Earth succession myth Zeus' child was supposed to overthrow him so he swallowed pregnant Metis and Athena was born from his head Athena: Iconography: Epithets: Story: Goddess of: Iconography: owl, snake,body armor, craft work Epithets: palla, glaukopis (owl-eyed), Parthenos, Aegiphora Story: Athena and Arachne Goddess of: war Artemis Iconography: Epithets: Story: Goddess of: Iconography: bow/arrows, deer, lyre Epithets: potnia theron, lydia, arrow-covering Story: Niobe, Agamemnon/Iphigenia, Orion and Artemis Goddess of: animals Hestia Iconography: Epithets: Story: Goddess of: Iconography: veiled, holding a tree branch or pot Epithets: / Story: / Goddess of: the hearth Aphrodite Iconography: Epithets: Story: Goddess of: Iconography: Epithets: Story: Anchises, Hermes, Dionysus Goddess of: love and sex Demeter Iconography: Epithets: Story: Goddess of: Iconography: grain, flowers, harvest symbols Epithets: chthonian (ground), fruit-bearer Story: Persephone, Eleusis, Poseidon/horse Goddess of: cultivated land