Ancient Literary Genres of Myth
This oral technique usually compares a hero to an animal or a force of nature.
What is an epic simile?
This hero has to perform 12 labors after killing his children and nephews in madness.
What is Hercules?
This tragedy is about the revenge against Jason and his marriage to Glauce.
What is the Medea?
This is the location for the celebration of Dionysus where our extant tragedies were performed.
What is the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens?
This literary theory is used to critique Greek male hierarchies and model
What is feminist theory?
This type of mythic narrative involves actors and choruses.
What is Greek tragedy?
This hero is tricked by Athena who disguises as his brother into battling Achilles.
What is Hector?
This king oversees the 12 labors of Herakles?
What is King Eurystheus?
This city state had a tomb celebrating Agamemnon in the Iron Age, which corresponds to Agamemnon's rule of the same city state in myth.
What is Mycenae?
This literary theory would state that the myth of Theseus and Beowulf share a common parent myth due to structural and detail similarities.
What is narratology?
This is the defining organizing principle in the The Library of "Apollodorus"?
What is genealogy?
This witch like heroine drugs Telemachus to ease his grief after he converses with Menelaus [name the text version]
What is Helen of the Odyssey?
In imitating his relative Herakles, Theseus punishes this man with the same torture he inflicts on others, i.e., fitting them into a bed.
What is Procrustes?
This Athenian celebration perhaps has an etiology in Theseus sailing to Crete that involved male cross-dressing.
What is the Oschophoria?
This rich man is responsible for the historical/archaeological interpretations of the Iliad and Odyssey.
What is Heinrich Schliemann?
This is the principal aim of the ancient biography.
What is discerning moral imitation?
To what island is Ariadne taken in one of the versions given after her abandonment by Theseus by Plutarch?
What is Naxos?
In imitating an epic simile, Troy is compared to what animal in Aeschylus' Agamemnon?
What is a pregnant hare?
This city-state celebrated had a cult celebrating Hercules and his children.
What is Thebes?
This literary theory would say that Romulus and Theseus stand in place for and might give advice to the Emperor Trajan due to themes found in their biographies.
What is the historicist model?
Some scholars explain books 1-4 of the Odyssey as this inset story, stitched to the larger narrative.
What is the Ballad of Telemachus?
Odysseus spares this man because he fulfills a role played by both Odysseus and epic narrator.
Who is Phemius?
In her fight with Jason learning of his new betrothal, Medea complains these three things as unjust:
These regions had cult sites celebrating Achilles has a seafaring, protective hero.
What are the Troad and the Black Sea?
Unlike Campbell's structural theory of myth, most Greek myths end in death. This hero dies pushed off the cliff of Scyros.
What is Theseus?