What is Myth
Greek
Mesopotamian
Roman
100

The concept that gods can be both gods and a physical space, abstract concept, or a thing.

What is Binaturalism?

100

This was the first god in Greek mythology.

Who is Chaos?

100

These two gods were the primordial gods in the Enuma Elish.

Who are Apsu and Tiamat?
100

This individual is the founder of Rome.

Who is Romulus?

200

This occurs when a culture adapts another culture's myths and make them their own.

What is syncretism?
200

This is the offspring of Metis and Zeus.

Who is Athena?

200

In the Theogony of Dunnu, Sea, the third god to be created, is the daughter of these two gods.

Who are Plough and Earth?

200

Chaos is this in the beginning of the Metamorphoses.

What is disorder?

300

The idea that all myths relate to how the sun functions.

What is Solarism?

300

These four gods are the four psychopomps we have mentioned in class.

Who are Persephone, Hecate, Hades, and Hermes?

300

This is the amount of time that Shamash sleeps with Enkidu, which often appears in many other texts.

What is a week or 6 days and 7 nights.

300

This is the way in which Roman myth performs syncretism.

What is adopting Greek myth?

400

This scholar argued that the mind tends to create binaries and this is reflected in myth.

Who is Claude Levi-Strauss?

400

When a mortal is given the status as a god, often times for performing god-like tasks.

What is apotheosis?

400

In the Atrahasis poem, this goddess weeps for the death of humans.

Who is Nintu/Mami/Aruru?

400

This is the place where Aeneas finds Dido in Dis.

What are the Fields of Sorrow?

500

Bronislaw Malinowski argued for this particular kind of myth, that focuses on the social?

What are social charter/contract myths?

500

This is the first god Zeus sends to persuade Demeter to leave her temple in Eleusis.

Who is Iris?

500

This is the individual who threatens Anu with the raising of the dead.

Who is Ishtar?

500

This is the goddess that gave an oracle to Deucalion and Pyrrha.

Who is Themis?