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02/06/2014

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Who unearthed the Palace of Minos at Cnossus?
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Sir Arthur Evans
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Which palace contains the famous Lion Gate?
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Mycenae.
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Who is responsible for excavating at Pylos?
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Carl Blegen
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Who is principally credited with unlocking the mystery of Linear B?
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Michael Ventris
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How many settlements were located on the hill of Hissarlik?
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9
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When can we locate the emergence of Homer's epics?
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the eighth century B. C.
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What seems to have been the Hittite name for Troy?
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Wilusa.
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Who of the following was the author of the Works and Days?
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Hesiod
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From what union did Day and Aether come into being?
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Erebus and Night
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What author parodies myth in his comedy entitled Birds?
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Aristophanes.
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In the orientalizing period of Greek art, what was the most popular mythological subject?
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the Gigantomachy
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Which of the following did not arise from Chaos?
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Uranus
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The Greek term hieros gamos means:
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a holy marriage.
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Greek mythology imagines the earth as a flat disc encircled by:
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Oceanus.
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Which of the following drove the chariot of the sun disastrously?
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Phaëthon.
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Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with the handsome shepherd:
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Endymion.
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Which lover of Eos was granted immortality, but not perpetual youth?
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Tithonus.
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Aphrodite was born as a result of the castration of:
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Uranus.
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Pontus is:
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The sea
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Eros is the:
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God of love
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Who is the counterpart to the Greek Deucalion or the Hebrew Noah in the Epic o
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Ut-napishtim
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Which is not a name of the Hecatonchires?
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Steropes.
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Who corresponds to the Greek Typhoeus in the Enuma Elish?
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Tiamat.
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Of what city was Gilgamesh king?
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Uruk.
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Which of the following was the final outrage that preceded the flood?
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Lycaon attempted to feed Zeus human flesh..
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Who survived the flood sent by Zeus?
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Deucalion and Pyrrha.
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According to the tradition, mankind is recreated:
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from rocks
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Who reluctantly binds Prometheus in Aeschylus' play Prometheus Bound?
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Hephaestus.
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What is the etymological root of Zeus' name?
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"bright".
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With what river does Hephaestus do battle in the Iliad?
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Scamander.
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What is the Roman name for the Fates?
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Parcae.
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Who is the goddess of the hearth?
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Hestia.
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Who was the prophet gifted with understanding the speech of animals?
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Melampus.
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"The Muses are the children of Zeus and Mnemosyne, whose name means:"
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memory.
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Another name for the Fates is:
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the Moirai.
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What Lapith man was once a girl?
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Caeneus.
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The Fates are offspring of Zeus and:
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Themis.
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Who insisted on the existence of one supreme nonanthropomorphic god?
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Xenophanes.
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What was the famous pronouncement of Solon?
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A human being is completely a thing of chance.".
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Who was the ill-fated man who came to the court of Croesus for purification?
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Adrastus.
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Who was forced to kill Candaules and win the throne?
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Gyges.
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"In addition to Herodotus, who narrated the story of Croesus?"
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Bacchylides.
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What is the hallmark of the Greek conception of the Olympians?
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Anthropomorphism
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Which statement is not true of the supreme gods of the Greek pantheon?
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They drink ambrosia and eat nectar.
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What is the most important difference that separates the gods from humans?
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They are immortal..
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Chthonian deities are deities who
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null.
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Who is the writer who records the tale of Solon and Croesus?
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Herodotus.
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Who was the youth who was rescued from the sea by a dolphin?
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Arion.
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Which may not be said of the story of Solon and Croesus?
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The gods show their favor by lavishing mortals with power and riches..
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Who was the instrument of fate and caused Croesus' son's death?
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Adrastus.
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What mortal brought the eventual downfall of Croesus?
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Cyrus the Great.
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"According to Herodotus, which god rescued Croesus from the pyre?"
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Apollo.
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What is an important element in defining saga or legend?
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It has a perceptible relationship to history..
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Who attempted to explain myths as charters of social customs?
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Bronislav Malinowski.
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What does the Greek term aitia mean?
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cause or reason.
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Which statement corresponds most closely to Lévi-Strauss' approach to myth?
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Myth strives to resolve binary opposites..
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What cannot be said about the role of women in Greek society?
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"Considering all the sources, women were cloistered, illiterate, and oppressed.".
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Who is responsible for analyzing myth into 31 recurrent motifemes?
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Vladimir Propp.
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To whom can be attributed an interpretation of myth centered on the spiritual or mystical yearnings of human beings?
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Mircea Eliade.
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Who is not a tragic playwright?
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Herodotus.
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