Midterm Authors

Question 1

*Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
*one of the earliest sources for myth
*epic poetry (bards, rhapsodes, song stitchers)

Answer 1

Homer

Question 2

*Is a Roman Author
*Metamorphosis - changes
*get most of our stories

Answer 2

Ovid

Question 3

*wrote the play Bacchae
*tragedy play
*one of three major tragedians
*emotional states of characters
*ritual to Dionysus

Answer 3

Euripides

Question 4

*Anead, one of two romans, literary sources
*Roman
*power of roman empire

Answer 4

Vergil

Question 5

*Theogony
*Works and Days
*origin of gods

Answer 5

Hesiod

Question 6

*Dionysus
*symposium
*philosopher
*myth of Er
*Creation of Mortals and origin of love

Answer 6

Plato