CLST 101 Actual exam COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
2025(GRADED A+) DETAILED ANSWERS!!
Questions and Verified Answers
Hamartia Correct Answer: a fatal flaw or mistake leading to the downfall of the
tragic hero
Peri Petei Correct Answer: Reversal of fortune
Anagnorisis Correct Answer: recognition
Katharsis Correct Answer: "purgation," tragedy should make you feel
Ephebe Correct Answer: An age of a young man; not ready to get married but ready
for war
Menis Correct Answer: godly rage, used for Achilles in first line of Iliad
Metis Correct Answer: cunning intelligence, Odysseus' epithet, Mother of Athena
Aganoria Correct Answer: excessive masculinity in a bad way, used for suitors
Aner Correct Answer: man, as opposed to god; first word of Odyssey
androcentrism vs. patriarchy Correct Answer: men are the center of the social
power vs. fathers/husbands are the most important
Aristeia Correct Answer: being your best fighter (going on killing sprees); risks
safety of self and family, only way to get honor. Example: Hector
Imeros vs. Eros Correct Answer: love and sex vs. erotic love
Xenia Correct Answer: guest friendship, also the name of a person
, hybis Correct Answer: abuse, is it ok to have sex with a young boy if he's going to
grow up and do the same thing?
pederasty Correct Answer: love of a young boy
hetaira Correct Answer: female companion, often immigrants
sophrosyne Correct Answer: self control/discipline, healthy mind
tribias Correct Answer: a woman whose sexual behaviors are non-normative
kinaedos Correct Answer: sexually weird/non-normative man
Penelope Correct Answer: Odysseus' wife, shrewd and careful
Eurycleia Correct Answer: loyal slave and nurse of Odysseus
Slave girls in Odyssey Correct Answer: disloyal, slept with suitors, hung by
Telemachus in Book 22
Clytemnestra Correct Answer: kills Agamemnon because she was having an affair
with another man
Agamemnon Correct Answer: married to Clytemnestra, in charge of the Greek
army, takes Chryseis as a war prize, fights with Achilles about pride
Paris vs. Hector in the Iliad Correct Answer: debate of masculinity; hector: perfect
example of a manly man; paris: perfect example of a feminine man, aphrodite takes
him out of battle
Sappho Correct Answer: 6th century poet in Lesbos, writes 9 books of lyrics, sung
by chorus.
Sappho 1 Correct Answer: written to Aphrodite, pulled down in a chariot by
sparrows from the sky, she will help find Sappho someone to love
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
2025(GRADED A+) DETAILED ANSWERS!!
Questions and Verified Answers
Hamartia Correct Answer: a fatal flaw or mistake leading to the downfall of the
tragic hero
Peri Petei Correct Answer: Reversal of fortune
Anagnorisis Correct Answer: recognition
Katharsis Correct Answer: "purgation," tragedy should make you feel
Ephebe Correct Answer: An age of a young man; not ready to get married but ready
for war
Menis Correct Answer: godly rage, used for Achilles in first line of Iliad
Metis Correct Answer: cunning intelligence, Odysseus' epithet, Mother of Athena
Aganoria Correct Answer: excessive masculinity in a bad way, used for suitors
Aner Correct Answer: man, as opposed to god; first word of Odyssey
androcentrism vs. patriarchy Correct Answer: men are the center of the social
power vs. fathers/husbands are the most important
Aristeia Correct Answer: being your best fighter (going on killing sprees); risks
safety of self and family, only way to get honor. Example: Hector
Imeros vs. Eros Correct Answer: love and sex vs. erotic love
Xenia Correct Answer: guest friendship, also the name of a person
, hybis Correct Answer: abuse, is it ok to have sex with a young boy if he's going to
grow up and do the same thing?
pederasty Correct Answer: love of a young boy
hetaira Correct Answer: female companion, often immigrants
sophrosyne Correct Answer: self control/discipline, healthy mind
tribias Correct Answer: a woman whose sexual behaviors are non-normative
kinaedos Correct Answer: sexually weird/non-normative man
Penelope Correct Answer: Odysseus' wife, shrewd and careful
Eurycleia Correct Answer: loyal slave and nurse of Odysseus
Slave girls in Odyssey Correct Answer: disloyal, slept with suitors, hung by
Telemachus in Book 22
Clytemnestra Correct Answer: kills Agamemnon because she was having an affair
with another man
Agamemnon Correct Answer: married to Clytemnestra, in charge of the Greek
army, takes Chryseis as a war prize, fights with Achilles about pride
Paris vs. Hector in the Iliad Correct Answer: debate of masculinity; hector: perfect
example of a manly man; paris: perfect example of a feminine man, aphrodite takes
him out of battle
Sappho Correct Answer: 6th century poet in Lesbos, writes 9 books of lyrics, sung
by chorus.
Sappho 1 Correct Answer: written to Aphrodite, pulled down in a chariot by
sparrows from the sky, she will help find Sappho someone to love
