just approaches and texts

Question 1

Rationally explains the origin of some fact or custom

Answer 1

Etiological

Question 2

interprets myth in a non-literal way, but as an extended metaphor.
Max Müller: all myths are allegories of nature, and thus they describe meteorological and cosmological phenomena

Answer 2

Allegorical

Question 3

“myth implies ritual, ritual implies myth, they are one and the same”
Proponents include Jane Harrison

Answer 3

Ritualist

Question 4

Myths explain existing facts and institutions by reference to tradition. Myths are best understood through social context
Bronislaw Malinowski

Answer 4

Psychological Functionalism

Question 5

A way to analyze myths in their component parts
Vladimir Propp
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Answer 5

Structuralist

Question 6

Zeus’ gift of divine violence and divine grace
three stanzas

Answer 6

Aeschylus, from the Agamemnon

Question 7

kidnapping of Ganymede by Zeus,
young men joining specific religious cults or the practice of pedoracy

Answer 7

Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Question 8

Zeus’ goose is loose, he makes Hera his wife
represents Hera becoming second to Zeus and worshipped less

Answer 8

Scholiast to Theocritus

Question 9

Athena sides with the son who killed his mother instead of the mother who killed her husband.
Athena as a male representative honouring social bonds above blood. Athens a place for men

Answer 9

Aeschylus in the Eumenides