CLST 101 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026
Hamartia - Answers a fatal flaw or mistake leading to the downfall of the tragic hero
Peri Petei - Answers Reversal of fortune
Anagnorisis - Answers recognition
Katharsis - Answers "purgation," tragedy should make you feel
Ephebe - Answers An age of a young man; not ready to get married but ready for war
Menis - Answers godly rage, used for Achilles in first line of Iliad
Metis - Answers cunning intelligence, Odysseus' epithet, Mother of Athena
Aganoria - Answers excessive masculinity in a bad way, used for suitors
Aner - Answers man, as opposed to god; first word of Odyssey
androcentrism vs. patriarchy - Answers men are the center of the social power vs.
fathers/husbands are the most important
Aristeia - Answers being your best fighter (going on killing sprees); risks safety of self and
family, only way to get honor. Example: Hector
Imeros vs. Eros - Answers love and sex vs. erotic love
Xenia - Answers guest friendship, also the name of a person
hybis - Answers abuse, is it ok to have sex with a young boy if he's going to grow up and do the
same thing?
pederasty - Answers love of a young boy
hetaira - Answers female companion, often immigrants
sophrosyne - Answers self control/discipline, healthy mind
tribias - Answers a woman whose sexual behaviors are non-normative
kinaedos - Answers sexually weird/non-normative man
Penelope - Answers Odysseus' wife, shrewd and careful
Eurycleia - Answers loyal slave and nurse of Odysseus
Slave girls in Odyssey - Answers disloyal, slept with suitors, hung by Telemachus in Book 22
Clytemnestra - Answers kills Agamemnon because she was having an affair with another man
, Agamemnon - Answers 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 - Answers debate of masculinity; hector: perfect example of a manly
man; paris: perfect example of a feminine man, aphrodite takes him out of battle
Sappho - Answers 6th century poet in Lesbos, writes 9 books of lyrics, sung by chorus.
Sappho 1 - Answers written to Aphrodite, pulled down in a chariot by sparrows from the sky, she
will help find Sappho someone to love
Sappho 16 - Answers whatever you love is the most beautiful on earth
Sappho 31 - Answers translated/copied by Catullus 51. "he seems to me equal to the gods,"
poem is about the woman next to the man. unrequited love and the physical reactions to it (fiery
skin, blind and muteness)
Sappho 57 - Answers "What country girl bewitches your mind... dressed in her country clothes...
not knowing how to pull her ragged dress over her ankles." similar pastoral, innocent, vibes to
Daphnis and Chloe
Hippolytus Genre, Author, Date, Setting - Answers Greek Tragedy by Euripides, written 428 BC,
Troezen- palace of Theseus
City Dionysia - Answers Located in Athens, 3 day festival with 3 tragedies by 3 playrites, non-
Athenian actors, Theater of Dionysus located within, procession up a big hill with animals,
parade of war orphans, epebes, worship of Dionysus
Hippolytus Theme - Answers "what happens when we lose control?" - Hippolytus = "the setting
free of horses", Phaedra overtaken by Aphrodite
Euripides' Idealized Love - Answers balanced, from a distance, nothing in excess
Eros as a metaphor - Answers physical, mental, and natural symptoms, "polluted mine" - see in
Hippolytus as well as Sappho 31
Aristophanes - Answers born in 447 BC, writes Old Comedy, writes about Thesmophoria Festival
Old Comedy - Answers 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 - Answers gender reversal: men cross-dressing, women in
charge at festival/kleisthenes bows down to women
Agathon - Answers gender non-normative, kinaedos, refuses to spy on the women, known for
dressing up like women to better write about them
Hamartia - Answers a fatal flaw or mistake leading to the downfall of the tragic hero
Peri Petei - Answers Reversal of fortune
Anagnorisis - Answers recognition
Katharsis - Answers "purgation," tragedy should make you feel
Ephebe - Answers An age of a young man; not ready to get married but ready for war
Menis - Answers godly rage, used for Achilles in first line of Iliad
Metis - Answers cunning intelligence, Odysseus' epithet, Mother of Athena
Aganoria - Answers excessive masculinity in a bad way, used for suitors
Aner - Answers man, as opposed to god; first word of Odyssey
androcentrism vs. patriarchy - Answers men are the center of the social power vs.
fathers/husbands are the most important
Aristeia - Answers being your best fighter (going on killing sprees); risks safety of self and
family, only way to get honor. Example: Hector
Imeros vs. Eros - Answers love and sex vs. erotic love
Xenia - Answers guest friendship, also the name of a person
hybis - Answers abuse, is it ok to have sex with a young boy if he's going to grow up and do the
same thing?
pederasty - Answers love of a young boy
hetaira - Answers female companion, often immigrants
sophrosyne - Answers self control/discipline, healthy mind
tribias - Answers a woman whose sexual behaviors are non-normative
kinaedos - Answers sexually weird/non-normative man
Penelope - Answers Odysseus' wife, shrewd and careful
Eurycleia - Answers loyal slave and nurse of Odysseus
Slave girls in Odyssey - Answers disloyal, slept with suitors, hung by Telemachus in Book 22
Clytemnestra - Answers kills Agamemnon because she was having an affair with another man
, Agamemnon - Answers 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 - Answers debate of masculinity; hector: perfect example of a manly
man; paris: perfect example of a feminine man, aphrodite takes him out of battle
Sappho - Answers 6th century poet in Lesbos, writes 9 books of lyrics, sung by chorus.
Sappho 1 - Answers written to Aphrodite, pulled down in a chariot by sparrows from the sky, she
will help find Sappho someone to love
Sappho 16 - Answers whatever you love is the most beautiful on earth
Sappho 31 - Answers translated/copied by Catullus 51. "he seems to me equal to the gods,"
poem is about the woman next to the man. unrequited love and the physical reactions to it (fiery
skin, blind and muteness)
Sappho 57 - Answers "What country girl bewitches your mind... dressed in her country clothes...
not knowing how to pull her ragged dress over her ankles." similar pastoral, innocent, vibes to
Daphnis and Chloe
Hippolytus Genre, Author, Date, Setting - Answers Greek Tragedy by Euripides, written 428 BC,
Troezen- palace of Theseus
City Dionysia - Answers Located in Athens, 3 day festival with 3 tragedies by 3 playrites, non-
Athenian actors, Theater of Dionysus located within, procession up a big hill with animals,
parade of war orphans, epebes, worship of Dionysus
Hippolytus Theme - Answers "what happens when we lose control?" - Hippolytus = "the setting
free of horses", Phaedra overtaken by Aphrodite
Euripides' Idealized Love - Answers balanced, from a distance, nothing in excess
Eros as a metaphor - Answers physical, mental, and natural symptoms, "polluted mine" - see in
Hippolytus as well as Sappho 31
Aristophanes - Answers born in 447 BC, writes Old Comedy, writes about Thesmophoria Festival
Old Comedy - Answers 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 - Answers gender reversal: men cross-dressing, women in
charge at festival/kleisthenes bows down to women
Agathon - Answers gender non-normative, kinaedos, refuses to spy on the women, known for
dressing up like women to better write about them
