CLCIV 385- GREEK MYTHOLOGY UMICH
TERMS MIDTERM QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED
A+}
Mythological Corpus - ✔✔Contain myths that have many forms; they are almost
always stories, but they may be conveyed with words or pictures
Roman myths - ✔✔Most of what counts as roman myths can be found in Vergil,
ovid, and Horace
Ascra - ✔✔The Iron Age, poorly understood due to almost no written records.
Named iron age because of the tools and weapons
Cronus - ✔✔The immediate ancestors of the Olympians, Titan of time, Castrates
Uranus with a sickle, Aphrodite is born from Uranus' genitals falling into the sea
, Cult title - ✔✔a descriptor that is tied to worship and thus has has religious
connotations
Earth (Gaia) - ✔✔in Hesiod's Theogony, the first element to come into being after
Chasm; after producing Uranus (Sky) asexually, Earth mates with him and bears
the Titans
Hesiod: - ✔✔Author, wrote Works and Days(a farmer's almanac) and Theogony (a
geneology of the gods)
Homer - ✔✔ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and
the Odyssey. hymn to aphrodite, demeter, and hades. (circa 850 BC). May not be
real
Metis - ✔✔Goddess who was the personification of "wise counsel" first consort to
Zeus. According to Hesiod's Theogony Zeus swallowed metis when she was
pregnant with Athena so he could evade the prophecy that she would bear him a
child who would overthrow him
Mycenae - ✔✔The Bronze age, used bronze for tools and weapons, Settlement
ruled by agamemnon
TERMS MIDTERM QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED
A+}
Mythological Corpus - ✔✔Contain myths that have many forms; they are almost
always stories, but they may be conveyed with words or pictures
Roman myths - ✔✔Most of what counts as roman myths can be found in Vergil,
ovid, and Horace
Ascra - ✔✔The Iron Age, poorly understood due to almost no written records.
Named iron age because of the tools and weapons
Cronus - ✔✔The immediate ancestors of the Olympians, Titan of time, Castrates
Uranus with a sickle, Aphrodite is born from Uranus' genitals falling into the sea
, Cult title - ✔✔a descriptor that is tied to worship and thus has has religious
connotations
Earth (Gaia) - ✔✔in Hesiod's Theogony, the first element to come into being after
Chasm; after producing Uranus (Sky) asexually, Earth mates with him and bears
the Titans
Hesiod: - ✔✔Author, wrote Works and Days(a farmer's almanac) and Theogony (a
geneology of the gods)
Homer - ✔✔ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and
the Odyssey. hymn to aphrodite, demeter, and hades. (circa 850 BC). May not be
real
Metis - ✔✔Goddess who was the personification of "wise counsel" first consort to
Zeus. According to Hesiod's Theogony Zeus swallowed metis when she was
pregnant with Athena so he could evade the prophecy that she would bear him a
child who would overthrow him
Mycenae - ✔✔The Bronze age, used bronze for tools and weapons, Settlement
ruled by agamemnon
