Romanticism
Romanticism is focused on this quality.
What are feelings?
What is blindness?
This is the "father of gods and men," according to Homer. He is related to lightning and the sky.
Who is Zeus?
This poetry concerns an heroic character with national or cosmic significance.
What is an epic?
This man was Mary Shelley's husband. He was a great Romantic poet.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
Romanticism was inspired in reaction to this cultural and literary movement.
What was the Enlightenment?
According to tradition, Homer's poems led to the creation of this writing system.
What is Attic Greek?
This is the wife of Zeus, and is related to motherhood and the life of the home. She is usually called "cow-eyed" or "ox-eyed."
Who is Hera?
This virtue means the respect of sacred things.
What is piety?
This city was Dr. Frankenstein's hometown. It was also the hometown of Rousseau and John Calvin.
What is Geneva, Switzerland?
The Enlightenment was an attempt to unify a religiously fragmented and increasing violent Europe in a period following this watershed movement in history.
What is the Reformation?
This first word of Homer's Iliad is a key to the theme of the entire poem.
What is rage?
This god was said to have wandered out of Asia Minor and into the Greek world, and this may be a mythological story of the geographical origins of wine, which was his sacred substance. Name this god of theater and "transformations."
Who is Dionysius?
This means the action necessary to undo wickedness.
What is penance?
A few years ago the Federal Government announced it would fund projects to grow human embryos with genetic material spliced with genes from this animal.
What is a pig?
This Reformation teaching of Martin Luther was a claim that everyone needed only to study the Bible by itself in order to find religious truth and church unity.
What is sola scriptura?
This German merchant was convinced that Homer's poems were historical, and so set out and discovered, with his own private fortune, both Troy and Mycenae.
Who was Heinrich Schleimann?
This god of fire and metalwork lent his Roman name to volcanos. He was begotten of Hera without the cooperation of Zeus.
Who is Hephestus?
This means the inordinate desire for earthly or material goods.
What is avarice?
This organization was recently forced to reveal in a lawsuit that it routinely sells pieces of aborted children to the medical industry.
French Romanticism united with the French Enlightenment in this climactic political event of the 18th century.
What is the French Revolution?
Who are Priam, Hecuba, and Hector?
This goddess usually did not have images to represent her. She was related to the sacred purity of the home and was represented by an eternal flame tended by sacred virgins.
Who is Vesta or Hestia?
This kind of story is made with characters, events, and objects to represent ideas, morals or religious concepts .
What is an allegory?
The Monster claimed to have studied these two books.
What is Paradise Lost, The Sorrows of Werther, and Plutarch's Lives?