CLAS 1500: Classical Mythology
Study Guide for Exam #1
N.B. This is a guide only. Everything in the textbook and lectures is
material for the exam. These are the highlights that will lead you to
complete knowledge.
Know who/what each of these items is, why each is significant and the
main stories associated with each.
Immortals
Chasm (Chaos), Earth (Gaea), Heaven (Ouranos), Eros, Cronus
(Kronos), Typhoeus, Prometheus, the Muses, Eris, Zeus, Hera,
Poseidon, Hades, Leto, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, Demeter,
Hestia, Dione, Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Persephone, Dionysus,
Charon, Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Mars, Vulcan, Mercury, Ceres,
Vesta, Venus, Diana, Minerva, Proserpina, Tiamat, Apsu, Ea, Marduk
Mortals
Pandora, the Five Races, Io, Callisto, Europa, Minos, Danae, Perseus,
Leda, Helen, Alcmene, Heracles, Semele, Ganymede, the Pythia,
Daphne, Cassandra, Hermaphroditus, Priapus, Pygmalion, Galatea,
Anchises, Aeneas, Niobe, Actaeon, Arachne, Hippolytus, Phaedra,
Minotaur, Iphigenia, Pentheus, Bacchae, Orpheus, Eurydice, Sisyphus
Places
Crete, Athens, Delphi, Delos, Cythera, Cyprus, the Parthenon, Eleusis,
River Styx
Authors / Texts
Hesiod, Homer, Enuma Elish, Genesis, Homeric Hymns, Euripides,
Ovid, Frazer, Victor Turner
Special Terms and Concepts
program of truth, synchronic, diachronic, etiology, mythos, Bronze
Age, Linear B, Succession Myth, Titanomachy, place of humans in the
universe, sacrifice, binary pairs, aegis, Hieros Gamos, social charter,
communitas, liminality, Mysteries, omophagia, sparagmos
