Study Guide: Western Lit Semester One Final Exam
Greek Mythology
In the image of humans
Could laugh at them
Homes in real places-Thebes, Mt. Olympus
Behaved worse than humans
Little magic
No ghosts
A few beautiful witches
Other Ancient Mythologies
Beast like-half-man, half-animal
Serious, deadly
Imaginary homes
Behaved morally
Magic
Ghosts
Hags (ugly witches)
Greek Miracle: When humans became the center of the universe.
Greek Creation:
Chaos
Night
Erebus (Death)
Love
Light
Day
Giants
Gaia
3 monsters with
hundred hands
and fifty heads
Furies
Ouranos
3 Cyclopes
Cronos Rhea Epimetheus
Titans
Prometheus
Hestia, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Zeus
Literary Terms:
Diction
Allusion
Tone
Imagery
Theme
Inversion
Stories:
Poetry:
Creation
Prometheus
Pandora
Daedalus
Theseus
“Musee des Beaux Arts”
“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Painting:
Brueghel’s The Fall of Icarus
Characters:
Gaia
Ouranos
Cyclopes
Titans
Furies
Cronos
Rhea
Zeus
Poseidon
Hades
Hera
Hestia
Demeter
Athena
Aphrodite
Apollo
Artemis
Hermes
Ares
Hephaestus
Prometheus
Epimetheus
Pandora
Daedalus
Perdix
Minos
Ariadne
Icarus
Theseus
Aegeus
Sciron
Pitocamptes
Corynetes
Minotaur