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1
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What is the meaning of the word Mythos in Greek?

A

Story

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2
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When did Ancient Mediterranean people begin to tell stories to explain their experiences?

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1200 BC

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Which group of primitive people stopped telling myths and instead told history with cause and effect?

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Hittites

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What is the function of myths?

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To illustrate truths and make some sense of human experience.

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Max Mueller

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Discovered all myths have to do with nature and natural phenomenons.

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Dr. Carl Jung

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Discovered the same myths end up in different cultures.

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Carl Jung’s discovery that there are ideas that everyone has but we are not aware of it is…

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Collective Unconcious

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Levi-Strauss

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  • Discovered that there are two sides of the brain.
  • Found that people think in conflicting pairs.
  • Thought that myths presented conflict and resolved them
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Charles Darwin

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Attempted to explain how life works.

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Carl Marx

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  • Thought economy was a crucial part of life.

- When people all have common items and money then the world will be at peace

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Freud

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  • 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.
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12
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Great father of humans and gods

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Zeus

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13
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Zeus’s wife and sister

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Hera

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One of Zeus’ human lovers that wanted to make love with Zeus while he was in his true form, died from a lightning strike…

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Semele

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15
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To primitive people, Zeus showed himself in the form of…

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Lightning bolts

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16
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The idea that all men have a woman. This means women can make you crazy.

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Anima

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17
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The idea that men and are violent and aggressive and a man will destroy a woman through rage and violence

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Animus

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18
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A myth that gives an example of anima and animus

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Zeus and Semele

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19
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Deep fear of male that a female will castrate male.

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Castration Anxiety

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20
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Women wish they had a penis

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Penis Envy

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21
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The Greek word for emptiness, also the start of creation…

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Chaos

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22
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5 beings that came into existence out of Chaos with no mother, father or creator…

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  • Ge (Earth) female
  • Tartarus (deep dark prison)
  • Eros (passionate love)
  • Erebus (Darkness)
  • Night
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23
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The only being that had a real form out of the 5 that came into existence

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Ge

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Imagined as a boy because boys are sexually most potent at 16…

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Eros

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25
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Ge’s children

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Mountains, Seas, Heaven (Uranus)

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26
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Ge’s husband (also her son), fertilized his wife who created the crops.

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Uranus (Heaven)

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27
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The process by which we give human form to things that are not really human…

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Anthropomorphism

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28
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Thought his kids were ugly so he stuffed them back up in his wife…

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Uranus

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29
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Ge’s youngest who wanted to help Ge and her children. Used an iron sickle to cut of Uranus’s genitles…

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Cronus

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30
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Created “from the foam” that came from Cronus’s castrated genitles, most beautiful being to be created…

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Aphrodite

31
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Cronus’s wife and sister

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Rhea

32
Q

Would eat his children in fear that theyd castrate him…

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Cronus

33
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Rhea’s son that she disguised and sent to a cave to hide from Cronus…

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Zeus

34
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Tricked Cronus to spit out his children

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Zeus

35
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Cronus’s Army

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Titans

36
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Zeus’s army that consisted of his siblings as well as citizens of Mt. Olympus

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Olympians

37
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The base of Zeus’s Army

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Mt. Olympus

38
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Where did Zeus send the Titans when he won?

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Tartarus

39
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Where did Zeus send his father Cronus when they won?

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in exile, went to Italy, Latin means hiding

40
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Saturn=

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latin name for Cronus

41
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Saturnalia

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25th of December celebrating when Saturn presided over the Romans

42
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Son of a titan but helped Zeus during war against Titans…. Some say he created man and gave them fire from Olympus…

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Prometheus

43
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Son of Zeus, God of Craftsmanship, created women, married to Aphrodite…

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Hephaestus

44
Q

Gave women irresistible beauty and charm…

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Aphrodite

45
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Goddess of wisdom or technology, gave women usefull skills.

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Athena

46
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God of jokes, gave women character of a thief and mind of a bitch…

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Hermes

47
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The name of the first woman

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Pandora

48
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Brother of Prometheus…. name means “after thought”… let Pandora stay at his house

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Epimetheus

49
Q

Only thing left in the jar that Pandora opened but wasn’t supposed to…

A

Hope

50
Q

The great majority

A

The dead

51
Q

The perfect humans that Zeus decided to save from the Great Flood…

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Deucalion and Pyrrha

52
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What does “take the bones of your mother and throw them over your shoulder” mean in the instructions given to Deucalion and Pyrrha?

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They had to get rocks and throw them over their shoulder

53
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Henotheism

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There are many gods in a religion but one is more powerful than others

54
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God of the sea…

A

Posideon

55
Q

minister of the dead…

A

Hades

56
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Goddess of marriage…

A

Hera

57
Q

Hera’s latin name…

A

Juno

58
Q

Name of the human that Posideon slept with…

A

Scylla

59
Q

Oldest of Cronus and Rhea, goddess of fire, had to stay at home to protect fire…

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Hestia

60
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sister of Zeus, goddess of agriculture

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Demeter

61
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Demeters daughter who Hades fell in love with and stole….

A

Persephone

62
Q

tried to take car of a baby but was caught putting it in a fire because she was trying to make it immortal…

A

Demeter

63
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fruit that Persephone ate a part of that makes her stay with Hades in the Underworld for winter…

A

Pomegranite

64
Q

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?

A

Orpheus

65
Q

wife of Orpheus…

A

Eurydice

66
Q

God of war, slept with Aphrodite while she was married to Hephaestus, got caught in his trap and was humiliated by other gods…

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Ares

67
Q

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…

A

Pygmalion

68
Q

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…

A

Myrrha

69
Q

Tree that Aphrodite made Myrrha into…

A

Myrrh tree

70
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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

A

Adonis

71
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what did Zeus do when he found out that Aphrodite was bragging that she made the other gods sleep with humans?

A

He made it so shed fall in love with the next human she saw…

72
Q

The next human that Aphrodite saw that she had to sleep with?

A

Anchises, a shepard from Troy

73
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Three qualities all gods have even as humans…

A

Tall, smell good, and blonde

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