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What does archeological evidence suggest

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The accounts of the Trojan War is not just a false story

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Greek society is based on

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Alliances a person made with others

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3
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Greek gods

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Represents higher forces in the universe that determine the fate of humans

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Aphrodite represents what in the judging contest

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The power of passion

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Metaphysical implications

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Emphasizes limitations that mortality places on human beings attempts to achieve fame

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Trojan war represents

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Greek struggles to deal with stages in their personal development

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Heracles

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Greek form of the name Hercules, son of Zeus and Alcmene(wife of Amphytrion)

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Psychologist study

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Mind and mental process

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Sociologist study

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Origin, development, organization, and functioning of human social relations and human institution

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Anthropologist study

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Origins, physical and cultural development, social customs, and beliefs of humans

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Folklorist study

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Traditional beliefs, legends, and customs of people

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Historians study

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Past events

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Archeologists study

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Culture of people as revealed by their artifacts, inscriptions, and monuments

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Scientist study

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Physical and material world

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Philosophers study

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Principle of beings, knowledge, or conduct

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Artists study

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Production of work according to aesthetic principles

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Myths

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Manifestation of what the public dreams; desires, fears, and culture

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What are history and myth to each other

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Merely competing structures that revisit the past and try to understand what it means

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Two forms of myths

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Oral and written

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Folklore/folktale

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Specific to the culture that produces

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Legend/urban legend

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Big and small legend, can move into mythic truths in that it expresses something important to us

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What can a myth not become

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An urban legend

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Fairy tale

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Myth for children, no definition of what makes them this

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Michel Foucault(French historian) beloved

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History is one way in which a society recognizes and develops a mass of documentation with which it is inextricably linked, interested in history of ideas and powers

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What do historians do to events

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Include and exclude events to shape perception and meaning of events to the culture that buys into history

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History is

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Event based

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Myth is

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Concept based

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What will people continue to do

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Seek a meaning in history and continue to develop myths to help them in this effort

29
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Story structures

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How humans began
How humans will end
Existential threats we face and who/what will save us from them
Living moral life
Epic struggle of good and evil
Explaining of phenomena

30
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What creates culture

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Myths

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Paratactic storytelling

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Represents ideas, one after the other, not showing temporal/logical connections(logic isn’t important)

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Syntactic storytelling

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Logical connections and temporal indicators, held together with after, because and which(logic is key)

33
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What was Arachne turned into by Athena

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A spider

34
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What did Ovid do to stories

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Reshaped them to show different aspects of theme of change

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What kind of storyteller was Ovid

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Synaptic storyteller

36
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Rationalization

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Adding a reason after the fact to make a story more logical to its audience

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Western

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Fundamental ideas, stories, governance, and figures that led to the formation of civilization in the West

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Are myths real to Ovid

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No

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Formulas

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Large repertoire of fixed phrase that use modular units from which to build poems

40
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Ovid

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Roman writing poetic verse in Latin, lived 43 B.C.E. to 17 C.E.

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Atmosphere in Ovid’s stories

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Reflect his own times

42
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Rationalize

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Make something more logical/reasonable, by adding a made-up reason

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