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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

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