CLST 101 TEST SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
FULL ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Eros as a metaphor. Answer: physical, mental, and natural
symptoms, "polluted mine" - see in Hippolytus as well as Sappho 31
◉ Aristophanes. Answer: born in 447 BC, writes Old Comedy, writes
about Thesmophoria Festival
◉ Old Comedy. Answer: uses real or made up characters,
funky/weird version of life (humans and gods, talking animals),
Thesmo is about the real life Peloponnesian War ?
◉ Women at the Thesmo themes. Answer: gender reversal: men
cross-dressing, women in charge at festival/kleisthenes bows down
to women
◉ Agathon. Answer: gender non-normative, kinaedos, refuses to spy
on the women, known for dressing up like women to better write
about them
◉ Women at the Thesmo context. Answer: written in 411 BC by
Aristophanes, about women's secrets, the Lenaia festival where
comedies were performed
, ◉ Euripides in Women at the Thesmo. Answer: believes that the
women at the festival are going to kill him for writing the truth
about them
◉ moicheia. Answer: Law of Seduction: sex with a non-prostitute/a
citizen other than your wife (illegal without consent of her guardian)
extra important because it threatens the right of an Athenian man to
hold citizenship, inherit his father's estate, and own landed property
stemmed from the legitimacy of his birth / threatens the male
control of the house
◉ Aristophanes parodies of Euriphides' plays. Answer: Telephus,
Palamedes, Helen, Andromeda: Helen and Andromeda were
parodied further in Women at Thesmo
◉ Kyrios. Answer: male guardian
◉ Euphiletus. Answer: means "beloved," kills Eratosthenes claiming
that Erat was seducing Euph's wife. portrays self as naive and too
trusting
◉ Eratosthenes. Answer: means "vigerous in love," seduces
Euphiletus' wife, Euph says that Erat does this as a career
FULL ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Eros as a metaphor. Answer: physical, mental, and natural
symptoms, "polluted mine" - see in Hippolytus as well as Sappho 31
◉ Aristophanes. Answer: born in 447 BC, writes Old Comedy, writes
about Thesmophoria Festival
◉ Old Comedy. Answer: uses real or made up characters,
funky/weird version of life (humans and gods, talking animals),
Thesmo is about the real life Peloponnesian War ?
◉ Women at the Thesmo themes. Answer: gender reversal: men
cross-dressing, women in charge at festival/kleisthenes bows down
to women
◉ Agathon. Answer: gender non-normative, kinaedos, refuses to spy
on the women, known for dressing up like women to better write
about them
◉ Women at the Thesmo context. Answer: written in 411 BC by
Aristophanes, about women's secrets, the Lenaia festival where
comedies were performed
, ◉ Euripides in Women at the Thesmo. Answer: believes that the
women at the festival are going to kill him for writing the truth
about them
◉ moicheia. Answer: Law of Seduction: sex with a non-prostitute/a
citizen other than your wife (illegal without consent of her guardian)
extra important because it threatens the right of an Athenian man to
hold citizenship, inherit his father's estate, and own landed property
stemmed from the legitimacy of his birth / threatens the male
control of the house
◉ Aristophanes parodies of Euriphides' plays. Answer: Telephus,
Palamedes, Helen, Andromeda: Helen and Andromeda were
parodied further in Women at Thesmo
◉ Kyrios. Answer: male guardian
◉ Euphiletus. Answer: means "beloved," kills Eratosthenes claiming
that Erat was seducing Euph's wife. portrays self as naive and too
trusting
◉ Eratosthenes. Answer: means "vigerous in love," seduces
Euphiletus' wife, Euph says that Erat does this as a career
