Vocab and Archaeology
The meaning of the Greek word kleos
What is fame, glory, or renown?
The act of calling upon the Muses for inspiration
What is the Invocation of the Muse?
Pentheus does this to upset Dionysus
What is deny his godhood and insult his mother?
Achilles is mad for this reason at the beginning of the Iliad
What is Agamemnon stealing Briseis, the woman he claimed as a war prize?
Telemachus leaves Ithaca because these people are plotting his death
Who are the suitors? (Or, who are Antinous and Eurymachus?)
The meaning of the Greek word nostos
What is homecoming?
The story told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Pentheus dies in this manner
The wedding of Peleus and Thetis is ruined when this uninvited goddess gives a golden apple "to the most beautiful"
Who is Eris?
Penelope tests Odysseus with this immovable object, which he had carved out of the trunk of a living olive tree
What is their marriage bed?
The meaning of the Greek word menis
What is rage/wrath?
The tool which Kronos uses to usurp his father, Ouranos
What is the Sickle of Adamant?
Dionysus escapes from prison by summoning this
What is thunder and lightning?
Zeus turned himself into a swan in order to get with this Spartan Queen, mother of Helen and Clytemnestra
Who is Leda?
The challenge that Penelope gave to select her new husband, which would reveal Odysseus' identity and lead to the deaths of the suitors
What is the stringing of the bow?
Who is Heinrich Schliemann?
The monster sent by Gaia to fight Zeus after the Titanomachy
Who is Typhon?
Cadmus and Harmonia are turned into this creature by Dionysus
What are snakes?
Husband to Andromache, and Trojan war hero who is eventually killed by Achilles
Who is Hector?
The daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia, who finds the nude Odysseus while doing laundry
Who is Nausicaä?
Classicist who proved that the Homeric epics were composed orally
Who is Milman Parry?
The nine Muses and their associations
Who are: Calliope - epic poetry, Clio - history, Polyhymnia - hymn and mime, Euterpe - music, Terpsichore - chorus and dance, Erato - lyric poetry, Melpomene - tragedy, Thalia - comedy, Urania - astronomy?
Agave horrifies Cadmus by doing this at the end of the play
What is carries the head of her son, Pentheus, into the city on a stick?
This hero tried to avoid fighting in the Trojan War by acting like he was mad by plowing fields of stone
Who is Odysseus?
This person sang about the affair between Ares and Aphrodite, and then sang about the Trojan War, bringing Odysseus to tears
Who is Demodocus the bard?