dumb ahh test 1

what does demeter mean

mother goddess

who kidnaps the girl in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Hades

what religious festival is patterned after the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Eleusian Mysteries

why does Demeter wind up spending time with mortals at the home of Celus

Bc she is angry at the gods for allowing Aidoneus to take her daughter

why dont Celeus and Metaneria recognize that they have Demeter in their home?

Bc she is disguised as an old woman and says she was kidnapped by pirates

what small slip-up requires Persephone to spend 1/3 of the year with her husband in the underworld?

she eats the pomegrante seed

when alcibiades bursts into the symposium by plato, which of these is not implied?

that he has returned from the underworld

what is the significance of the rooster underneath the chair in the votive tablet

dawn of a new day, a new life in the underworld

what is the subject of the Illiad

the anger of achilles

which is the best label for the use of myth to interpret the meaning of Athena grabbing achillies by the hair to restrain him

pyschological myth

the sceptre by which achilles swears in Illiad 1 may represent many thigs, but what does Achillies say it represents

how the Achaeans will miss him and suffer grief at the hands of Hector

what does the armor Hector wears have in common with the wrath of achilles

patroclus was wearing it when he went to fight in place of achillies who was angry

what does achilles say in reply to hector’s request that he agree to return his body if slain in battle?

there is no bargaining between men and lions, or wolves and lambsi

In the battle between achillies and hector, what gleams suddenly like the beautiful evening star and why

the spear tip of achillies, which will avenge the death of patroclus, whom the star recalls

what does achilles do to hector that Homer calls monstrous

he drags his body through the dirt behind his chariot

who is the figure on the right with the beard

agamemmon

who is the figure on the right in the helment, grabbing the young men by the hair

athena

picture contains a afro guy sitting on a chair with a girl touching his chin

Thetis

why does metaneria become angry at demeter

demeter puts her baby in the fire

In Odyssey 4, how does Homer say that Helen mocked the Greeks in the Trojan horse?

She called to each in the voice of their wife

who is traditionally credited with being the builder of the Trojan horse?

Epeius

What is the Palladion/Palladium, and why is it part of the story of the fall of Troy

Statuette of Athena that fell from the sky. Troy would not fall till it was taken.

Who says the famous line, ‘I fear Greeks, even bearing gifts’

Laocoon

which of these is not part of Sinon’s lie that the Greeks built the Trojan horse and sailed away?

There are secretly Greek soldiers inside waiting to burn and sack Troy

What reason does the Vergilian commentator Servius offer as to why the gods allow twin serpents to devour laocoon and his sons

Laocoon and his wife had had sex in front of the statue of Neptune in his temple

what is the significance of the household gods that Hector tells Aeneas to take with him as he flees?

They are protecting spirits of the royal family line

Who is the naked guy

Sinon

who is being strangled by the snakes

Laocoon and his sons

who is the old man being killed before an alter in the royal palace

Priam

Who is the young man driven mad by the furies for killing his mother

Orestes

Who is the figure holding the stag and protecting a young girl

Artemis

Who is the young maiden being carried in the center of this painting

Iphigenia

Which member of the House of Atreus is depicted on the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, swearing an oath before a chariot race against Oenomaus

Pelops

Although the death of Agamemnon is imagined in many ways in paintings, how does Aeschylus say he died in the play that bears his name

Killed by Clytemnestra, in the bath, with a sword

Whom does Agamemmon bring home with him from Troy and leave with Clytemnestra when he enters the palace

Cassandra

what was the punishment of Tantalus from which we get the word tantalize

What was tormented by fruits and water fleeing his lips

Who are the parents of Aegisthus

Thyestes and his own daughter Pelopia

Why does Agamemnon kill his daughter Iphigeneia

To get winds from Artemis to sail to troy

If the man caught in the net is Agamemnon, who is the man with the sword

Aegisthus

What is the origin of the curse on the House of Atreus

Pelops breaks his oath to Myrtilus and kills him

Which of these is not associated with the Kalypso/ Calypso story in Odyssey 5

She turns Odysseus and his men into pigs

To whom is Odysseus telling the stories of his marvelous adventures in the first half of the epic?

the Phaneacians

What happens to the men that eat the flowering fruit of the lotus

they forget home

what did later authors and political philosophers think Polyphemus represented

tyranny

what does odysseus tell Polyphemus his name is, as a trick

Nobody

In the travels of Odysseus, whose cottage is surrounded by mountain wolves and lions standing on their hind legs begging and fawning like dogs

circle

How does HOmer describe the Planctae- the clashing rocks of Scylla and Charybdis

scylla has 6 dog heads that sort of fish, and Charybdis is a whirlpool

who is the yawning lady that has odysseus so bored and miserable

calypso

who is the woman with dogs at her waist eating men

Scylla

Where was europa taken on her voyage to found the european civilization and how?

To crete by bull

who are the spartoi, and what did they do?

the men sown from the teeth of a serpent who killed each other

why is Dionysos (Bacchus) called the twice-born god

he was rescued when his mother Semele exploded, and was carried to term in the thigh of Zeus

What is the riddle which tradition says the Sphinx asked Oedipus, and what is the answer

what goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening. man

which of the following is not one of the character flaws of Oedipus

he fights his brother for the throne of Thebes

what is the last thing Oedipus sees before binding himself and how does he do it

Jocasta’s robe falls down when he removes her brooches to stab his brooches to stab his eyes with the pins

who is the man killing a serpent to found the city of Thebes

CAdmus

which mythical figure from the Theban cycle was the son of Jupiter and Semele

Dionysos

Which king of Thebes was torn in two like this?

Pentheus

who is oedipus talking to

Sphinx