1. For the content of the exam in general terms, read the statement at the top of the Study Guide. Use the key terms guide as an aid for figuring out which names are important and which not, but don't neglect the stories themselves (as mentioned in class, I recommend that you get together and tell the stories to one another: it also makes the names much easier to remember!).

2. The format of the exam will be a variety of objective questions (or as objective as we can get, in the humanities). The focus will be the events of the myths themselves. There will also be coverage of the ancient authors and works we've learned about, as well as ancient places. Images shown and discussed in class are fair game. And, finally, concepts and terms emphasized in the lectures, from Euhemerism to Freud, will be included. There will probably be one or two short answer essays so that I can see whether you're understanding more complicated conceptual issues deriving from our in-class discussions.

3. The samples below are not inclusive, that is, I reserve the right to ask different sorts of questions. But these should give you a clearer idea of the ways in which you'll need to digest information and ideas in order to be able to perform well on the exam.

4. I'll reserve at least half the class on Wednesday for questions relating to the exam: bring in whatever trouble spots you have. (I will not however simply answer questions which you can easily look up in your textbook!)

Sample Questions:

I. Quick questions:

a. According to Hesiod, in the beginning of the universe there was what?

b. Arrange the following names of authors or works in chronological sequence: (1) Aeschylus, (2) Hesiod, (3) Homer, (4) Sappho, (5) Sophocles, (6) Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian Version).

c. Homer wrote what two works, of which we have read excerpts?

d. What, according to Hesiod, were the five races of man?

e. What would a euhemeric reading of the Oedipus tale be?

II. Story telling: [This will be the longest section of the exam]

Tell me the principal story associated with each of the following. Be to the point & specific. Name important names as relevant (for example, you'll get partial credit for mentioning "Prometheus' brother" but full credit for mentioning "Epimetheus" when telling the tale of Pandora).

1. Atreus & the children of Thyestes.

2. The "Judgement of Paris"

3. The Greek version of the "universal flood"

4. The birth of Aphrodite, as told by Hesiod (NOT the daughter of Zeus & Dione!)

5. Gilgamesh and Utnapishtim.

6. The creation of Pandora, as told by Hesiod.

7. The image projected on the screen.

III. Short answer essays. Be brief, to the point: enough to demonstrate your understanding and command of the concepts. [THERE WILL BE SOME CHOICE FOR THESE: 1 of 2, or 2 of 3.]

1. What are the principles of division in Hesiod's account of the cosmogony?

2. What is the variant of the tale of the return of Agamemnon told in Homer's Odyssey, and how does that differ from the Aeschylean version? Why does Aeschylus make these changes, that is, what sorts of new meaning is he seeking to construct?

3. What, according to Freud, are the three parts of the psyche, and what connection does this have to the myth of Oedipus?