Ms. Gokturk

Mythology

What’s on the FINAL EXAM?

CONTENT: As you leave this introductory course to mythology, you should have an introductory understanding of the basic characters, stories, and interpretations. The final covers everything and anything we covered during class the entire semester. Discussion, notes, readings, film excerpts, definitions…

FORMAT: 100 questions (multiple choice, true or false, matching) and short answer responses.

WEIGHT: This is a double grade. This grade can make or break your marking period grade. Start studying now!

First Marking Period

• Definitions of types of myths: succession, etiological, cosmological, eschatological
• Oedipus story & archetypes
• Great mothers: Demeter & Persephone story, Cybele & Attis story, Isis & Osiris story
• Creation stories– Theogeny, Adam and Eve/Genesis
• Olympian Gods
• Lesser Gods
• Greek Theater terms
• Hades Parts/Walk Through Hades handout
• Dionysus myth
• Prometheus, Epimetheus, & Pandora story
• Jason and the Golden Fleece story
• The Bacchae
• Prometheus Bound
• Medea
• Aristotle’s definition of tragedy and tragic hero

Second Marking Period

• Definition of Etiological
• Hyacinth
• Adonis
• Trojan War Outline
• The Odyssey (events,monsters)
• Achilles
• Odysseus
• Perseus
• Theseus
• Hercules
• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Greek Hero Definition
• Heroic Journey Parts/Definition
• Elements of a Fairy Tale (be able to recall and trace in tales)
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Maiden Without Hands
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Donkeyskin
• Hop o’ My Thumb
• Hansel and Gretel
• Little Otik (Bringing Up Baby) [film]
• Fairytale Motifs/Themes: Be able to trace in tales (Eating/Starving, Fears Addressed, Good vs. Evil, Power Struggles, Rich vs. Poor, etc.)
• Pans’ Labyrinth or Unhappily Ever After (TBA)