Review Questions over Dionysos and Pan.

Don't Panic.Some of these questions are rather obscure, and would only appear in the Extra Credit Section. I've tried to give the more obscure questions in red.

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1. Which of the following are not one of the 'kinds' of Dionysos?

2. Dionysos' mother was _____________

3. Hera destroyed Semele by:

4. According to the standard Greek myth the city or place of Dionysos' birth is

5. However, scholars think that, in contrast to the myth, Dionysos comes from_____________.

6. While Dionysos himself may be a rather old god, his inclusion among the traditional Greek gods is:

7.Do the myths of Dionysos indicate that the worship of Dionysos encountered serious resistance at some point?

8. Dionysos taught ___________ at Athens wine and wine-making

9. From a psychological  perspective, Pentheus is destroyed because:

10. Which of the following practices (despite what rumors say) are not part of the rites and lifestyle of the Bacchae?

11. Which of the following do not happen in the Bacchae of Euripides?

12. Do both Stranger and Tiresias point out that Dionysos does not make any person indecent, but at most unmask what was already there?

13. In his mystery religion, Dionysos/Zagreus is torn apart by the _____________.

14. The next part of this myth suggests what about human nature?

15. Which of these points is not a major theme of the legend of Dionyos and the pirates?

16. Pan is  most associated with ___________?

17. Is Pan fully human?

18. Pan was very helpful during the famous battle of___________

19. From a psycholgical view, at least according to your instructor's interpretation, the myth of Narcissus is about:

1. Who do you think the female figure is that Pan is attacking here? (Consider how she is being presented.)  2. Who then is the winged figure flying between them?  3. When you consider how Pan is presented here, what figure out of Christian theology/mythology, especially in the Middle Ages, is often represented as looking a lot like Pan?

 

4. The father of Dionysos' Mother was__________
	5. According to a myth you have studied, the dolphins surrounding this ship were originally ____________  6. The god resting in the center of the transformed ship is ______
7. The exiled god that Dionysos brought back to Olympus was called_______________
8. The god that is thought to be the 'opposite' of Dionysos is___________.
9. The major female agricultural goddess that Dionysos is often associated is _______________.
10. The chief god of shepherds was_________
11. The woman that Dionysos was said to have saved and married (at least in some accounts) was__________:
12. This woman was originally from_____________:
13. The old tutor of Dionysos was called______________.
	14. The male figure on the left of the vase below is a ____________    15. The female figure on the right is called a _________
16. The pole or wand, decked with ivy or vines and  a pinecone that Maenads carry is called a _____________
17. The half animal personifications of fertility that accompany Dionysos are called _____ and ________.
18. In mystery religion, Dionysos was the son of ___________ and Zeus.
19. This child is also called _____________.
20. What body part of this god, according to this same myth, was saved, swallowed by Zeus and used to make Semele pregnant?
21. What psychological phenomenon is most closely associated with Pan?
22. The nymph that ran away from Pan but was turned into reeds and became his favorite instrument was_____________.
25. The nymph, that, according to one account, rejected Pan and was torn apart by maddened shepherds so that only her voice was left was called___________.

 

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