CLAS 1100 Exam 2

Question 1

Adonia

Answer 1

The ritual commemorating Aphrodite’s laughter and sorrows
Only celebrated by women

Question 2

Adonis

Answer 2

The mortal boy that Aphrodite is attracted to
Spends part of his year with Persephone and part with Aphrodite

Question 3

Aeneas

Answer 3

Son of Aphrodite and Anchises; founder of Rome

Question 4

Anchises

Answer 4

Mortal seduced by Aphrodite
Father of Aeneas

Question 5

Ares

Answer 5

Aphrodite’s lover
Son of Zeus and Hera, sister of Eris
Father of Deimus, Phobus, and Harmonia
Represents pure aggression in war and was despised by gods and mortals alike

Question 6

Cyprus

Answer 6

The island where Aphrodite walks onto after she is created from the foam of Uranus’s genitals in the sea

Question 7

Eros

Answer 7

The most important of he Erotes, generally considered a god
Sometimes described as Aphrodite’s son

Question 8

Erotes

Answer 8

The collective divine winged beings

Question 9

Himerus

Answer 9

One of the Erotes; Desire

Question 10

Pandemus

Answer 10

Aphrodite’s cult title: Of All the People

Question 11

Peitho

Answer 11

Sometimes considered Aphrodite’s daughter
“Persuasion”

Question 12

Philommedes

Answer 12

What Hesiod calls Aphrodite; translated into “genital-loving”

Question 13

Pothus

Answer 13

One of the Erotes; Longing

Question 14

Pygmalion

Answer 14

A sculptor who turned away from women due to disgust at the practice of temple prostitution at the town’s worship of Aphrodite. He creates a statue that he falls in love with and Aphrodite turns her into a human named Galatea

Question 15

Acropolis

Answer 15

Ancient citadel outside of Athens

Question 16

Areopagus

Answer 16

A rocky situation near the Acropolis where Athena establishes a court for trying homicide

Question 17

Athena Polias

Answer 17

“City Protector”
Most ancient and holy cult statue of Athena, an olive log believed to have fallen from the sky

Question 18

Autochthonous

Answer 18

“Born from the earth”

Question 19

Erichthonius

Answer 19

Athena resists Poseidon and he ejaculates on her leg. She wipes it up with wool and throws it onto the earth, creating the boy

Question 20

Furies

Answer 20

Female spirits of revenge who attack those who have spilled kindred blood

Question 21

Metis

Answer 21

The wisest goddess that Zeus swallows out of fear of her giving birth to a son who would overthrow him

Question 22

Oresteia

Answer 22

A trilogy including Eumenides

Question 23

Orestes

Answer 23

Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who plots to kill Clytemnestra to avenge his father

Question 24

Panathenaea

Answer 24

A festival that celebrated the governance of Athens by Athena
Said to be a celebration of Athena’s birthday/her role in the victory of gods over giants

Question 25

Parthenon

Answer 25

The temple of the Acropolis of Athens

Question 26

Peplos

Answer 26

Ritual garment worn and weaved by Greek women

Question 27

Anthesteria

Answer 27

Flower festival that honored Dionysus and Hermes Signaled the opening of the Underworld

Question 28

Caduceus

Answer 28

Hermes's wand- a staff with two snakes wrapped around it

Question 29

Cyllene

Answer 29

A mountainous region believed to be Hermes's birthplace

Question 30

Herm

Answer 30

Replaced Hermes's Hill Included head and erect phallus Emphasizes Hermes's connection to fertility of flocks and role as protector

Question 31

Hermaion

Answer 31

"A lucky catch"

Question 32

Hermes's Hill

Answer 32

Pile of rocks typically found on the side of the road, eventually become Herms

Question 33

Mutilation of the Herms

Answer 33

Athens, 415 BCE Phalluses hacked off of all the herms in the city when the Athenian fleet was set to depart for a controversial military campaign Perpetrators were put on trial for sacrilege

Question 34

Pan

Answer 34

Hermes's son Part man, part goat, ithyphallic

Question 35

Actaeon

Answer 35

Hunter who sees Artemis and her nymphs bathing in the woods She turns him into a stag and he is killed by his own hunting dogs

Question 36

Artemis Orthia

Answer 36

Located outside of Sparta Boys initiations; often bathed in blood and whipped

Question 37

Asclepius

Answer 37

Son of Apollo, known for healing the sick

Question 38

Brauronia

Answer 38

A ritual for Artemis "playing the bear"

Question 39

Callisto

Answer 39

A female follower of Artemis who gets impregnated by Zeus and is turned into a bear by Hera. Their son doesn't recognize her while hunting and when he goes to kill her, they both turn into a constellation

Question 40

Cassandra

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The Pythias' mythical double Condemned to knowing prophecies but not being believed

Question 41

Cartharsius

Answer 41

Cult title of Apollo "Purifier"

Question 42

Daphne

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Transformed into a laurel tree after refusing Apollo's advances

Question 43

Delos

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Island where Leto delivers her children

Question 44

Delphi

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Oracle in Greece Apollo provided "Zeus's counsel" to men at these oracles

Question 45

Hippolytus

Answer 45

One of Artemis's adolescent male worshippers who wanted to stay a virgin hunter forever. Aphrodite makes his stepmother Phaedra fall in love with him (out of spite) and when she admits her love to him, she claims he raped her. His father, Theseus, kills him out of rage.

Question 46

Hyacinthia

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Three day festival that involved a form of ritualized loss

Question 47

Iphigenia

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Temple dedicated to her was at Brauron. She was supposed to be sacrificed by her father, Agamemnon when Artemis transformed her into a deer and saved her

Question 48

Orion

Answer 48

Hunter who attempts to rape Artemis who she then kills directly with her arrows, transforming him into a constellation

Question 49

Pythias

Answer 49

Apollo's priestess at Delphi