Quiz 4

Question 1

The Greek alphabet is derived from which script?
What is distinctive about it?
What did the Greeks do with this script to make it useful for themselves?

Answer 1

Borrowed Pheonician script and added vowels
One character = one sound
easy to memorize, easy to learn

Question 2

What is a polis? Name three essential features of a polis

Answer 2

A self sustaining city-state

1) walls
2) temples
3) citizenship

Question 3

What is the meaning of theogony?

Answer 3

origin of the gods

Question 4

What does cosmogony mean

Answer 4

origin of the world/cosmos

Question 5

what does anthropogony mean

Answer 5

origin of humankind

Question 6

What is a succession myth? Name two examples

Answer 6

When a younger generation overthrows an older one.

Theogony, Theogonoy of Dunnu

Question 7

Why does the first woman not have a name in Theogony? What’s her name in Works and Days? Why the difference

Answer 7

God’s don’t care for names where as mankind does (human perspective)
Pandora
Emphasis on Man and Wife not Prometheus’ punishment

Question 8

Pandora’s name can mean two different things. What are they?

Answer 8

All-gift

Giver of all [ills]

Question 9

The first major battle of the Olympians is with whom?

Answer 9

Titans in Battle of Titanomachy

Question 10

What is the name of Zeus' first wife/lover
What does he do to her?
What does this represent?
Why does he do this?
What is the result?

Answer 10

Hera
He swallows her when she pregnant
He usurps female role by birthing Athena
He does this so she cannot birth someone to overthrow him
He now has wisdom in his so his combo of power and intelligence, sense of justice, and wisdom.

Question 11

What is the name of the final monster Zeus battles in Theogony? He’s the son of who?

Answer 11

Typhoios

Tartaros and Aphrodite

Question 12

What are the names of the three Cyclopes? Why are they called Cyclopes? What do they do for Zeus?

Answer 12

Brontes, Steropes, Arges
Thunderer, Flasher, Brigtener
They had a single goggle eye in the middle of their forehead
They gave Zeus thunder and made the thunderbolt

Question 13

What happens at Mecone?
Who are the two main players?
What is the result for humanity of this “check match” between two antagonists?

Answer 13

Prometheus tries to trick Zeus by giving him bones wrapped in fat.
Prometheus and Zeus
They were destined to lose fire but when Prometheus gave it back to them, Zeus punished them with women

Question 14

Define kleos

Answer 14

Fame

comes from time and arete

Question 15

Define arete

Answer 15

Excellence

Question 16

Define time

Answer 16

The value (price) other people have of you.

Question 17

Define geras

Answer 17

special prize given

like women given to Achilles

Question 18

Define aristeia

Answer 18

bestness

Question 19

Define menis

Answer 19

divine wrath

Question 20

Define basileus

Answer 20

signified types of monarchs like king or emperor

Question 21

Define xenia

Answer 21

concept of hospitality

Question 22

What is the poem’s first word in Greek?
What does it mean?
Why is it applied to Achilles?
How is it appropriate?

Answer 22

menis
divine wrath
He’s part god and the first and ninth book is centered around his rage

Question 23

What is the name of the priest who asks for his daughter back from Agamemnon?

Answer 23

Chryses

Question 24

What happens to the Argive army as a result of Agamemnon’s refusal to accept the priest’s wishes?

Answer 24

Apollo sends a plague

Question 25

What do Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel over in Book 1? What is the result?

Answer 25

Agamemnon takes Achilles's prize (Briseis) and disgraces him. Achilles curses Argive army to lose to Trojans so that they will want him back but he turns down Agamemnon's offer of gifts and reconciliation.