CLASS 102 Quiz 3

_____ was the first god with miasma

_____ was the first human with miasma

_____ established his oracle here, but he had to slay a dragon, “Pytho”, first

Apollo established his oracle here, but he had to slay a dragon. _____, first

Apollo was searching for a place to establish an oracle and chose _____

_____ located beneath Mt. Parnassus

Apollo was afflicted with _____ because he killed Pytho, the dragon that originally guarded the Delphic shrine

_____ was afflicted with miasma because he killed Pytho, the dragon that originally guarded the Delphic shrine

Apollo was afflicted with miasma because he killed _____, the dragon that originally guarded the Delphic shrine

Apollo was afflicted with miasma because he killed Pytho, the dragon that originally guarded the _____ shrine

Before Apollo belonged to Apollo, it belonged to _____

Under _____ direction, Apollo had to get rid of his miasma

_____ has the authority to give catharsis as seen in the Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo

For 8-9 years, _____ wandered in Thessaly until he cleansed himself of miasma, for killing the dragon in the Valley of Tempe below Mt. Olympus

For 8-9 years, Apollo wandered in Thessaly until he cleansed himself of _____ for killing the dragon in the Valley of Tempe below Mt. Olympus

For 8-9 years, Apollo wandered Thessaly until he cleansed himself of miasma, for killing the dragon in the _____ below Mt. Olympus

Because Apollo cleansed himself of miasma, he can provide _____

_____ is a ritual event celebrated every 8-9 years at Delphi

Septerion is a ritual event celebrated every 8-9 years at _____

During Septerion, a local priest leads a procession of boys of nobility to the _____ where they make sacrifices

During _____, a local priest leads a procession of boys of nobility to the Vale of Tempe where they make sacrifices

During Septerion, they conduct a procession along a sacred route, the Pythian, on their way back to _____

_____ are often thought of as comments inserted in the margin or in between individual lines of a manuscript of an ancient author, whose purpose is to help readers comprehend a particular text in terms of the language used

The majority of the current evidence derived from _____ we have come from medieval sources, who based their own _____ or commentaries on the works of earlier commentaries which no longer survive

_____ marries Dia, daughter of Eïoneus, now his father-in-law

Ixion marries Dia, daughter of _____

_____ gains miasma by betraying xenia and attempting to seduce a certain god’s wife

Ixion lusted after Hera so Zeus created a cloud phantom of Hera (_____) which Ixion coupled with

Ixion coupling with Nephele lead to the birth of the _____

_____ came about through the copulation of Ixion with Nephele

_____ was King of the Lapiths

_____ were famous for living on the edges of civilization

_____ can be incurred from harming a sacred creature, murder (especially of a family member, incest, breaking the rules of xenia, or cannibalism)

In cases, those with ____ can be tormented by the Erinyes

The pollution incurred causes misfortune to the bearer of _____ and even to those surrounding them

The Two Sins of Ixion by _____ has morals such as needing to respect the gods and acknowledge favours, understanding that wealth and power do not excuse impiety, and slander and deception lead to ruin.

_____, queen of Thebes, boasts that she is superior to the goddess Leto/Latona because she has more children than her.

_____ has 14 children compared to Leto’s twins, Apollo and Artemis

_____ twins punish Niobe by killing her children

After her children die, _____ flees to Mount Sipylus

Apollo and Artemis is born to _____

_____ was a follower of Artemis but Zeus desired her

_____ is tricked and raped by Zeus, leading to her pregnancy

When _____ discovers Callisto’s pregnancy, she is enraged and expels her from the group, as her followers were required to remain virgins

Hera’s jealousy leads to her turning _____ into a bear

Callisto’s son _____ nearly kills her while hunting but Zeus intervenes

Zeus places both _____ and _____ in the sky, turning them into the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor

_____ - Honour - Everyone has a claim to one’s due portion in their community

Status determines amount of _____

_____ is given by others, but one’s status in part determines what is expected of you to maintain and increase one’s _____

_____ can be honoured through gifts, song, respect, etc.

_____ - divine anger

_____ is a divine anger generated in response to a human violation of the cosmic order

_____ can be very destructive not only to those who incur it but also to those around them

_____ came up with ritualist interpretation of myth that saw myth as a secondary elaboration of religious ritual

Sir James Frazer came up with _____ of myth that saw myth as a secondary elaboration of religious ritual

_____ explored his theory through myths of fertility often in which a figure dies and is brought back to life

_____ was an early anthropologist, who was trained in Classics

_____ was heavily influenced by evolutionary theory

_____ - mechanical operations conducted through and as part of ritual to coerce impersonal natural or supernatural forces to obey human wishes

_____ - total misconception of the laws of nature

_____ - Humans tried to propitiate (make someone pleased or less angry by giving or saying something desired) gods in an attempt to gain their help or stem their displeasure

_____ - came into being when humans realized that magic was often ineffective

_____ - the succession of events is assumed to be perfectly regular and certain, being determined by immutable laws - the operation of which can be foreseen and calculated precisely; the elements of caprice, of chance and accident are banished from the course of nature

_____ explored myths as secondary elaboration of religious ritual.

_____ contained stories that reflected actual rituals which were performed

The Golden Bough started by trying to find the _____ figure in mythologies around the world