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Allegorical Theory

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James Fraser

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Bronislaw Malinowski

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Sigmund Freud

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Carl Jung

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Feminist Theory

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Bronze Age

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Olympian religon

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Chthonic religon

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Mystery Religon

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Hesiod

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Ancient Greek poet. Wrote the Theogony.

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Theogony

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Poem by hesiod. One of the oldest pieces of literature from ancient greece

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The Divine Sucession myth

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Written by Hesiod, in Theogony. About the creation of the world, it’s gods, and how cronus overthrew Uranus and Zeus overthrew Cronus.

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Chaos

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The creation of everything. How Gaea, Uranus, and etc. where created

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Gaea

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The primordial deity of the Earth. She is the mother/wife of Uranus and the mother of all the Titans

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Uranus

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Father sky/primordial deity of heaven/the sky. Son/Husband of Gaea and father of the titans. Forced all of his and Gaea children back into her womb. Was eventually casterized by his son, Cronus. His son then took his place as the sort of “king” of the titans. His caserization resulted in the creation of sea foam and the goddess Aphrodite.

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Titans

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The children of Gaea and Uranus. They were the gods in charge before the Olympians and after the gods that originally had power after Chaos.

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Cronus

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The son of Gaea and Cronus. He was the youngest of the Titans and used the scythe, invented by his mother, to casterize his father. He then became the new “king” of the gods. He married Rhea and they has their children, the olympians. Cronus was scared of his children coming to power and taking his place so he would swallow them after their birth. Backfired and Zeus defeated him.

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Rhea

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A Titan and wife of Cronos. After her children were born, Cronos would swallow them. She didn’t like that. Gave him rock to eat instead of child. Raised child secretly. Child defeated Cronus.

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Olympians

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The children of Cronus and Rhea. The reigning gods.

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Titanomachy

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The war between the Olympians and the Titans

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Prometheus

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Titan god of fire. Gave fire to the humans. Was sentanced to eternal torment by Zeus.

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Pandora

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The first human female created by Hephaustus. Pandora opened “Pandora’s box”/jar and released sickness and many unspecified evils into the world.

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The 5 ages myth

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The flood myth

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When Zeus, the king of the gods, resolved to destroy all humanity by a flood, Deucalion constructed an ark in which, according to one version, he and his wife rode out the flood and landed on Mount Parnassus.

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zeus

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hera

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Io

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Ganymede

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The Muse

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The Fates

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Olympia

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Dodona

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Hades

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Tartarus

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Elysium

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Demeter

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Homeric Hymn to Demeter

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Peresephone

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Eleusis

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The Eleusinian Mysteries

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Posiden

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Isthmia

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Athena

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Athens

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Parthenon

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Pallas

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Arachne

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Apollo

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Homeric Hymn to Apollo

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Asclepius

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Daphne

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Marsyas

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Delos

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Delphi

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Artemis

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Niobe

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Actaeon

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Callisto

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Hestia

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Dionysus

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Ariadne

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Euripides

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Bacchae

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Pentheus

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The Dionysian Mysteries

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Aphrodite

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Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

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Anchises

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Eros/Cupid

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Pygmalion

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Adonis

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Ares

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Hephaestus

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Hermes

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Homeric Hymn to Hermes

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Pan

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