Mythology Exam

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Epithet

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Descriptive phrase that entered common usage

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Kleos

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Ego

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Agon

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Contest or struggle

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Arete

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Winning

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Trojan War

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War between Greeks and Trojans started by beauty contest between godesses and reward of Helena of Sparta

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Judgement of Paris

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Paris told Aphrodite she was the prettiest so he could get Helen which Aphrodite bribed him with

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Priam

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King if Troy

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Hector

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Paris' older brother, lead of army of Troy

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Agamemnon

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Menelaus' brother

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Menelaus

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King of Sparta, husband of Helen

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Achilles

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Best fighter on Greek side, foretold he would die in Trojan war

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Thetis

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Mother of Achilles

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Theme of Illiad

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Building kleos for no point but to die

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Chryses

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Trojan priest of Apollo

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Calchis

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Dispute between Agamemnon and Chryses

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Patrolus

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Achilles' friend

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Death if Hector

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Achilles dragged Hector's body behind chariot

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Odyssey vs Illiad

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More woman-hero presence, a journey rather than a war, external verses internal conflict

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Nostos

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Homecoming

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Odysseus

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Warrior in Trojan war, from Ithaca

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Athena

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Godess who helped Odysseus, godess kf handicraft, welfare, and wisdom

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Telemachus

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Odysseus' son

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Penelope

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Odysseus' wife

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Cyclops episode

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Odysseus wanted to explore a cave and most of his men got killed but he escaped by blinding the Cyclops and then yelled at him from the boats

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Xenia

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Law of hospitality

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Calypso

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Godess who held Odysseus captive for 7 years

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Circe

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Witch ship turned Greek army into pigs

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Underworld

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Book 11, Odysseus found Achilles who told him kleos wasn't worth it and Menelaus who told him to stay away from women

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Oedipus

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King of Thebes, written by Sophocles, Thury?

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Sphinx

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Mythical creature haunting Thebes that told riddles

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Tyrannos

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Leader who fixes things

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Greek Drama

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Unusual humor and plotline

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Thebes

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Where Oedipus was king

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Chorus

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Dancing in Greek play

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Hamartia

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"To miss the mark," great flaw

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Tiresias

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Oedipus' prophet

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Greek philosophy

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Natural sciences, humanistic

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Plato's republic

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Concerned justice and krder in city state

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Allegory

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Small thing in play represents metaphor for larger subject

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Noble Lie

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Lie told to maintain harmony

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Allegory of the Cave

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Plato and genuine knowledge

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Dramatic irony

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Irony understood by audience but nit characters in play

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Myth of Er

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Guy who died in battle and came back to life to tell others that there are those who are punished in the afterlife for immorals they did in their lifetime (these are not actual words btw)