Chapter 2

Question 1

What does archeological evidence suggest

Answer 1

The accounts of the Trojan War is not just a false story

Question 2

Greek society is based on

Answer 2

Alliances a person made with others

Question 3

Greek gods

Answer 3

Represents higher forces in the universe that determine the fate of humans

Question 4

Aphrodite represents what in the judging contest

Answer 4

The power of passion

Question 5

Metaphysical implications

Answer 5

Emphasizes limitations that mortality places on human beings attempts to achieve fame

Question 6

Trojan war represents

Answer 6

Greek struggles to deal with stages in their personal development

Question 7

Heracles

Answer 7

Greek form of the name Hercules, son of Zeus and Alcmene(wife of Amphytrion)

Question 8

Psychologist study

Answer 8

Mind and mental process

Question 9

Sociologist study

Answer 9

Origin, development, organization, and functioning of human social relations and human institution

Question 10

Anthropologist study

Answer 10

Origins, physical and cultural development, social customs, and beliefs of humans

Question 11

Folklorist study

Answer 11

Traditional beliefs, legends, and customs of people

Question 12

Historians study

Answer 12

Past events

Question 13

Archeologists study

Answer 13

Culture of people as revealed by their artifacts, inscriptions, and monuments

Question 14

Scientist study

Answer 14

Physical and material world

Question 15

Philosophers study

Answer 15

Principle of beings, knowledge, or conduct

Question 16

Artists study

Answer 16

Production of work according to aesthetic principles

Question 17

Myths

Answer 17

Manifestation of what the public dreams; desires, fears, and culture

Question 18

What are history and myth to each other

Answer 18

Merely competing structures that revisit the past and try to understand what it means

Question 19

Two forms of myths

Answer 19

Oral and written

Question 20

Folklore/folktale

Answer 20

Specific to the culture that produces

Question 21

Legend/urban legend

Answer 21

Big and small legend, can move into mythic truths in that it expresses something important to us

Question 22

What can a myth not become

Answer 22

An urban legend

Question 23

Fairy tale

Answer 23

Myth for children, no definition of what makes them this

Question 24

Michel Foucault(French historian) beloved

Answer 24

History is one way in which a society recognizes and develops a mass of documentation with which it is inextricably linked, interested in history of ideas and powers

Question 25

What do historians do to events

Answer 25

Include and exclude events to shape perception and meaning of events to the culture that buys into history

Question 26

History is

Answer 26

Event based

Question 27

Myth is

Answer 27

Concept based

Question 28

What will people continue to do

Answer 28

Seek a meaning in history and continue to develop myths to help them in this effort

Question 29

Story structures

Answer 29

How humans began How humans will end Existential threats we face and who/what will save us from them Living moral life Epic struggle of good and evil Explaining of phenomena

Question 30

What creates culture

Answer 30

Myths

Question 31

Paratactic storytelling

Answer 31

Represents ideas, one after the other, not showing temporal/logical connections(logic isn’t important)

Question 32

Syntactic storytelling

Answer 32

Logical connections and temporal indicators, held together with after, because and which(logic is key)

Question 33

What was Arachne turned into by Athena

Answer 33

A spider

Question 34

What did Ovid do to stories

Answer 34

Reshaped them to show different aspects of theme of change

Question 35

What kind of storyteller was Ovid

Answer 35

Synaptic storyteller

Question 36

Rationalization

Answer 36

Adding a reason after the fact to make a story more logical to its audience

Question 37

Western

Answer 37

Fundamental ideas, stories, governance, and figures that led to the formation of civilization in the West

Question 38

Are myths real to Ovid

Answer 38

No

Question 39

Formulas

Answer 39

Large repertoire of fixed phrase that use modular units from which to build poems

Question 40

Ovid

Answer 40

Roman writing poetic verse in Latin, lived 43 B.C.E. to 17 C.E.

Question 41

Atmosphere in Ovid’s stories

Answer 41

Reflect his own times

Question 42

Rationalize

Answer 42

Make something more logical/reasonable, by adding a made-up reason