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| Who unearthed the Palace of Minos at Cnossus? |
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| Which palace contains the famous Lion Gate? |
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| Who is responsible for excavating at Pylos? |
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| Who is principally credited with unlocking the mystery of Linear B? |
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| How many settlements were located on the hill of Hissarlik? |
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| When can we locate the emergence of Homer's epics? |
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| What seems to have been the Hittite name for Troy? |
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| Who of the following was the author of the Works and Days? |
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| From what union did Day and Aether come into being? |
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| What author parodies myth in his comedy entitled Birds? |
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| In the orientalizing period of Greek art, what was the most popular mythological subject? |
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| Which of the following did not arise from Chaos? |
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| The Greek term hieros gamos means: |
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| Greek mythology imagines the earth as a flat disc encircled by: |
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| Which of the following drove the chariot of the sun disastrously? |
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| Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with the handsome shepherd: |
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| Which lover of Eos was granted immortality, but not perpetual youth? |
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| Aphrodite was born as a result of the castration of: |
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| Who is the counterpart to the Greek Deucalion or the Hebrew Noah in the Epic o |
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| Which is not a name of the Hecatonchires? |
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| Who corresponds to the Greek Typhoeus in the Enuma Elish? |
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| Of what city was Gilgamesh king? |
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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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| According to the tradition, mankind is recreated: |
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| Who reluctantly binds Prometheus in Aeschylus' play Prometheus Bound? |
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| What is the etymological root of Zeus' name? |
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| With what river does Hephaestus do battle in the Iliad? |
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| What is the Roman name for the Fates? |
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| Who is the goddess of the hearth? |
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| Who was the prophet gifted with understanding the speech of animals? |
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| "The Muses are the children of Zeus and Mnemosyne, whose name means:" |
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| Another name for the Fates is: |
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| What Lapith man was once a girl? |
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| The Fates are offspring of Zeus and: |
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| Who insisted on the existence of one supreme nonanthropomorphic god? |
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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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| Who was forced to kill Candaules and win the throne? |
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| "In addition to Herodotus, who narrated the story of Croesus?" |
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| What is the hallmark of the Greek conception of the Olympians? |
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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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| Chthonian deities are deities who |
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| Who is the writer who records the tale of Solon and Croesus? |
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| Who was the youth who was rescued from the sea by a dolphin? |
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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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| What mortal brought the eventual downfall of Croesus? |
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| "According to Herodotus, which god rescued Croesus from the pyre?" |
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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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| What does the Greek term aitia mean? |
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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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| To whom can be attributed an interpretation of myth centered on the spiritual or mystical yearnings of human beings? |
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| Who is not a tragic playwright? |
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