Exam 1 Flashcards
What is the meaning of the word Mythos in Greek?
Story
When did Ancient Mediterranean people begin to tell stories to explain their experiences?
1200 BC
Which group of primitive people stopped telling myths and instead told history with cause and effect?
Hittites
What is the function of myths?
To illustrate truths and make some sense of human experience.
Max Mueller
Discovered all myths have to do with nature and natural phenomenons.
Dr. Carl Jung
Discovered the same myths end up in different cultures.
Carl Jung’s discovery that there are ideas that everyone has but we are not aware of it is…
Collective Unconcious
Levi-Strauss
- Discovered that there are two sides of the brain.
- Found that people think in conflicting pairs.
- Thought that myths presented conflict and resolved them
Charles Darwin
Attempted to explain how life works.
Carl Marx
- Thought economy was a crucial part of life.
- When people all have common items and money then the world will be at peace
Freud
- If people talked long enough their injuries would go away.
- Concluded all human life was driven by sex
- Myths are a way of discussing sexual fantasies and desires.
Great father of humans and gods
Zeus
Zeus’s wife and sister
Hera
One of Zeus’ human lovers that wanted to make love with Zeus while he was in his true form, died from a lightning strike…
Semele
To primitive people, Zeus showed himself in the form of…
Lightning bolts
The idea that all men have a woman. This means women can make you crazy.
Anima
The idea that men and are violent and aggressive and a man will destroy a woman through rage and violence
Animus
A myth that gives an example of anima and animus
Zeus and Semele
Deep fear of male that a female will castrate male.
Castration Anxiety
Women wish they had a penis
Penis Envy
The Greek word for emptiness, also the start of creation…
Chaos
5 beings that came into existence out of Chaos with no mother, father or creator…
- Ge (Earth) female
- Tartarus (deep dark prison)
- Eros (passionate love)
- Erebus (Darkness)
- Night
The only being that had a real form out of the 5 that came into existence
Ge
Imagined as a boy because boys are sexually most potent at 16…
Eros
Ge’s children
Mountains, Seas, Heaven (Uranus)
Ge’s husband (also her son), fertilized his wife who created the crops.
Uranus (Heaven)
The process by which we give human form to things that are not really human…
Anthropomorphism
Thought his kids were ugly so he stuffed them back up in his wife…
Uranus
Ge’s youngest who wanted to help Ge and her children. Used an iron sickle to cut of Uranus’s genitles…
Cronus
Created “from the foam” that came from Cronus’s castrated genitles, most beautiful being to be created…
Aphrodite
Cronus’s wife and sister
Rhea
Would eat his children in fear that theyd castrate him…
Cronus
Rhea’s son that she disguised and sent to a cave to hide from Cronus…
Zeus
Tricked Cronus to spit out his children
Zeus
Cronus’s Army
Titans
Zeus’s army that consisted of his siblings as well as citizens of Mt. Olympus
Olympians
The base of Zeus’s Army
Mt. Olympus
Where did Zeus send the Titans when he won?
Tartarus
Where did Zeus send his father Cronus when they won?
in exile, went to Italy, Latin means hiding
Saturn=
latin name for Cronus
Saturnalia
25th of December celebrating when Saturn presided over the Romans
Son of a titan but helped Zeus during war against Titans…. Some say he created man and gave them fire from Olympus…
Prometheus
Son of Zeus, God of Craftsmanship, created women, married to Aphrodite…
Hephaestus
Gave women irresistible beauty and charm…
Aphrodite
Goddess of wisdom or technology, gave women usefull skills.
Athena
God of jokes, gave women character of a thief and mind of a bitch…
Hermes
The name of the first woman
Pandora
Brother of Prometheus…. name means “after thought”… let Pandora stay at his house
Epimetheus
Only thing left in the jar that Pandora opened but wasn’t supposed to…
Hope
The great majority
The dead
The perfect humans that Zeus decided to save from the Great Flood…
Deucalion and Pyrrha
What does “take the bones of your mother and throw them over your shoulder” mean in the instructions given to Deucalion and Pyrrha?
They had to get rocks and throw them over their shoulder
Henotheism
There are many gods in a religion but one is more powerful than others
God of the sea…
Posideon
minister of the dead…
Hades
Goddess of marriage…
Hera
Hera’s latin name…
Juno
Name of the human that Posideon slept with…
Scylla
Oldest of Cronus and Rhea, goddess of fire, had to stay at home to protect fire…
Hestia
sister of Zeus, goddess of agriculture
Demeter
Demeters daughter who Hades fell in love with and stole….
Persephone
tried to take car of a baby but was caught putting it in a fire because she was trying to make it immortal…
Demeter
fruit that Persephone ate a part of that makes her stay with Hades in the Underworld for winter…
Pomegranite
Most famous human musician… Went to the Underworld to get back his wife that passed away but turned around so she was snatched back to the world of the dea.. What was his instrument?
Orpheus
wife of Orpheus…
Eurydice
God of war, slept with Aphrodite while she was married to Hephaestus, got caught in his trap and was humiliated by other gods…
Ares
A sculpture, very lonely, made a beautiful women out of statue and sacrificed to Aphrodite on her day of celebration. the statue he sculpted came to life…
Pygmalion
Loved her own father, her nurse tricked him into sleeping with her by telling her someone in the village wanted to sleep with him but only in the dark… the dad found out and was furious…
Myrrha
Tree that Aphrodite made Myrrha into…
Myrrh tree
Myrrha’s boy that was born, name means good looking male… aphrodite fell in love tih him… died by a boar attack… aphrodite brought him back but every year had to be killed by a boar
Adonis
what did Zeus do when he found out that Aphrodite was bragging that she made the other gods sleep with humans?
He made it so shed fall in love with the next human she saw…
The next human that Aphrodite saw that she had to sleep with?
Anchises, a shepard from Troy
Three qualities all gods have even as humans…
Tall, smell good, and blonde
