TEST QUESTIONS

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Look at Brittini, Amanda, Jann, and Elizabeth's blog! The test is on Friday!

Q:What was Demeter's revenge for the abduction of Persephone?
A: Winter

Q:What is a senex?
A: impotent old man

Q:What are the 3 manifestations of the Universal, White, or Triple Goddess?
A:the crone (Hecate), the mother (demeter), the maiden (Persephone)

Q: Puer
A: archetype of eternal youth (Peter Pan, Hermes)

Q: "I was born yesterday!"
A: The reason why Hermes couldn't have stolen Apollo's cattle

Q: What did Aggy do to get to the Trojan war?
A: he sacrificed his virgin daughter

Q: What is the heart of all tragedy according to Sophocles?
A: The best thing is to never have been born

Q: Sparagmos
A: shredding, tearing or rending of live flesh

Q: Who is the Kore in Demeter?
A: Persephone

Q: Birth of Dionysus?
A: born from Zeus' thigh/ he of the double doors

Q: Stichomythia
A: short exchanges (one liners) between characters in a drama

Q: What are the 5 main conflicts in Antigone according to Steiner?
A: man v. woman, age v. youth, individual v. society, living v. dead, human v. God(s)

Q: Aphrodite-Urania
A: the goddess of spiritual love

Q: Eleusian Mysteries
A: stalk of wheat

Q: Antigone's name (meaning)
A: against the birth

Q: Hubris
A: arrogance

Q: Lines 441-481
A: perhaps

Q: who do you invoke for creative inspiration?
A: The 9 muses

Q: What was the subject of the 1st song?
A: Hermes- birth of the Gods (if you were in class you got another answer)

Q: What does chthonic mean?
A: relating to the underworld

Q: pomegranate seed
A: Persephone had to stay in the underworld for a while forever

Q: Tirerisas
A: lived both as male and female, female is more fun, all seeing yet he's blind

Q:Polis
A:city

Q: Father of the Muses?
A: Zeus (duh!), mother was Mnemosyne (memory)

Q: catharsis?
A: purging of the systems/ emotions

Q: Jocasta?
A: mother and grandmother of Antigone

Q: Cassie's Birthday?
A: February 2, 1987 Grand Junction Colorado

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