Ms. Gokturk

Mythology

What’s on the Midterm? April 8^th, 2009

FORMAT:

100 questions (multiple choice, true or false, matching)

WEIGHT:

This is a double grade, 200 points. This grade can make or break your marking period grade.

CONTENT: The mid-term covers everything and anything we covered during class – discussion, PowerPoint notes, readings, definitions…

Definitions of types of myths: succession, etiological, cosmological, etiological

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