Greek and Roman Mythology Quiz 3

Tragedy

Formed in Athens

Had 3 actors that wore masks

Tried to be defined by Aristotle

Exogamy

Represents culture according to Levi-Strauss

Practice of marrying outside the kinship group

Endogamy

Represents practice of marrying with the kinship group

Ostracism

- An institution in democratic Athens that allowed citizens to exile leaders by vote

- if a name appeared on the votes written on a pot sherd that person would be exiled for ten years

Oedipus

- son of Laius and Jocasta (and husband of Jocasta)

- solved the riddle of the Sphinx and became tyrant of Thebes

- arrived at Colonus in Attica and died there

- overvalues females and undervalues males

Teiresias

blind prophet in Oedipus from Thebes

Antigone

- daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus

- Helped her father in exile

- Executed by Creon for burying her brother, Polynices, after he was killed while attacking Thebes

Creon

Killed Antigone

Ruler of Thebes

Jocasta

Wife and mother of Oedipus

Mother of Antigone

Polybus

Adoptive father of Oedipus

King of Cornith

Laius

father of Oedipus, killed by Oedipus

Artemis

- Attributes: Bow and Arrow, hunting dog, stag, moon

- Areas of Concern: hunting, childbirth, virginity

- Daughter of Zeus and Leto

- Twin sister of Apollo

Hestia

- Attributes: Veil, Fire

- Areas of Concern: the hearth, architecture

- Sister of Zeus who never married

Apollo

- Son of Zeus and Leto

- Areas of Concern: Music, Healing, Prophecy

- Attributes: Kithara, Bow, Laurel

- Roman Apollo and Etruscan Aplu

Cronus

- Son of Earth and Sky

- Father of Zeus

- Areas of Concern: Time, The Islands of the Blessed

- Attributes: Snake and Scythe

- Associated with Roman Saturnus

Aristotle

- Born in Stagira 384 BCE

- Died in Euboea 322 BCE

- Ancient Greek philosopher who tried to define tragedy and trace its origins

- Tutor of Alexander the Great

Claude Levi-Strauss

- Born Brussels, Belgium 1908

- Died Paris, France 2009

- "father of modern anthropology"

- identified universal structures of human society, such as kinship rules

Sigmund Freud

- born Freiburg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1856

- Died London, England 1939

- Austrian Neurologist and the founder of Psychoanalysis

- Coined the term "Oedipal Complex"

Thebes

- legendary home of Cadmus, Heracles, Oedipus, and Dionysos

- site of constant occupation from the Bronze Age

- Traditional Enemy of Athens

Athens

- governed by a radical democracy from 510 to 404 BCE

- Birthplace of Tragedy, Democracy, Philosophy, and Comedy as we understand it

- final resting place of Oedipus