MTEL Ancient Lit
Information from the MTEL English 07 study guide.
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- Sophocles was one of the three early great playwrights, the other two being...
- Aeschelus and Euripides
- Mythos
- the Greek word for story, but the story must involve the relationship between at least one human and a deity
- The Romans borrowed...
- almost all of Greek mythology, giving Roman names to Olympian gods
- Myths common to almost all cultures deal with:
- the creation of the world - the creation of humans - the fall from grace of humans - the anger of the god or gods, that results in the destruction of the world (usually by a flood) except for a chosen male and female
- Virgil borrowed ideas from his Greek predecessors:
- Aeneas and Achilles are warriors, Aeneas and Odysseus are wanderers, but unlike either, Aeneas is not bound to passions (to die in battle, to reach home) but to a higher mission - his strongest obligation is to public duty
- Gilgamesh seeks...
- immortality
- and soon after the Sumerians, the...
- Egyptians
- The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on...
- broken clay tablets in cuneiform writing
- In the Aeneid, Aeneas has a god-given mission to...
- found the city that would become the seat of the great Roman Empire
- Zeus and Aphrodite to Romans:
- Jupiter and Venus
- The civilization in Mesopotamia was called...
- Sumer
- In Greece, the role of the myth was...
- to explain and instruct
- Who guides Dante from hell to heaven?
- Virgil
- The Odyssey takes place... and is about...
- in the years after the war described in the Iliad... the journey home or toward a just and honorable life
- The Iliad shows...
- a revulsion with war and a seemingly contradictory fascination with violence
- To remain true to his mission, Aeneas...
- forsakes the love of his life, Dido, and in the end takes his own life
- Greek dramas grew out of an ancient ritual:
- a dance to the god Dionysus
- Virgil wrote...
- The Aeneid, unfinished at the time of his death in 19BC, during the beginning of two centuries of stable Roman rule
- The Epic of Gilgamesh was... was recorded... and was based on...
- the first epic poem... in 1200 BC by the Babylonians... myths and legends that evolved from the Sumerians
- Sophocles enhanced Greek drama by adding...
- a third actor and scenery
- In the Middle Ages, who was exiled from Florence because he tried to seek support for independence from Rome?
- Dante Alighieri
- Who created the first written language?
- The Sumerians, who also created the wheel
- served as one of Athens' ten generals
- Sophocles
- What led to the invention of writing
- the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - the establishment of an agricultural surplus between 7000 and 3000 BC
- Dante wrote...
- The Divine Comedy, which chronicles the author's journey from hell to paradise
- The growing Sumerian population called for...
- record keeping to keep track of governance
- Euripides invented...
- "deus ex machina": lowering a god, via a crane, directly into the action of the play to resolve the dramatic problem
- Homeric gods are...
- humans made immortal
- The first community to develop was in an area in the Middle East called...
- Mesopotamia
- Egyptian beliefs and standards of behavior were lost because...
- they were written on papyrus leaves
- Ancient Literature began with the...
- Sumerians
- "When the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life they kept in their own hands"
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Writings from ancient Egypt, from 3500 BC, give evidence of...
- an advanced system of beliefs in a supernatural world, an afterlife, and, for a time, a single god
- The Olympian gods and goddesses were created by...
- The Greeks
- The Divine Comedy was written in...
- Italian
- The five ancient civilizations following the Sumerians:
- Babylon and Asyria, Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Israelite culture
- To be considered for a prize at the Dionysiac festival, the dramatist had to write...
- three tragedies and a light satyr piece
- An actor was added to the chorus...
- in the 7th century by the Greek poet Thespis
- Christians' view is that humans are made in the image of god, while to Homer...
- gods and goddesses were made in the image of mortals
- The ancient literature that is most relevant today is from...
- 800 BC - 400 AD
- Coming to his son, Jacopo, in a dream, Dante revealed...
- the last thirteen cantos of The Divine Comedy