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Lecture 1 Flashcards

1
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Types of Myths

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  1. Divine Myths
  2. Legends (Sagas)
  3. Folktales
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Divine Myths

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Also known as pure myths
Supernatural main characters
Usually explain why something is the way it is in the world.

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Legends/ Sagas

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Stories of great deeds by humans or semi-divine characters

Legends narrate human past
Rooted in reality

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Anthropomorphism

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Personification of aspects of nature

Gods. animals or another object

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Heinrich Schliemann

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Believed that the events of the Iliad maybe true

Funded the anthropological research

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Folktales

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Main characters are ordinary people or animals

Serve to entertain and teach behavior

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Ainos

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Greek folktales

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Motif

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Regular appearance of an identifiable pattern or symbol in a story

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Theories of Myths

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  1. Allegory
  2. Physical Allegory
  3. False Etymologies
  4. Historical Allegory; Euhemerism
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Allegory

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Similar to symbolism

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Physical Allegory

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Theagenes, first to use allegory to interpret myth

Battle between the gods actually represent conflicts between natural forces

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False etymologies

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Creating false meanings due to thinking two words are related

Cronus (father of Zeus)
• Greeks tried to relate Cronus with Cronos
(time).
• When Cronus eats his children, it means
‘time devours everything’
• However, Cronus and Cronos are not
etymologoically related words.

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Historical Allegory: Euhemerism

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Euhemerism says myth
tells us historical truths, not philosophical truths.

The gods are historical figures, human kings who ruled
long ago and who eventually were transformed by story into gods.

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14
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Periods of Time

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• Neolithic (‘New Stone’ Age): Agriculture starts
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• Early/Middle Bronze Age: Myths
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• Mycenaean Age (Late Bronze Age): Trojan War ends
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• Dark Age: Loss of writing ability
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• Archaic Period: Illiad/Oddesy
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• Classical Period:
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• Hellenistic Period: Greek values pushed forward
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• Roman Rule

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The Minoans

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Look peace-loving 
Advanced 
Bull and double- headed ax= Religious Symbols 
Worshipped a single female God 
Lost language 
Predated the greek language and the Indo-European 
Destroyed by a volcano
Linear A script
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Myceneans

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Occuppied what previously the Minoans had
Violent people
Linear B script
Indo-Europeans

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17
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The Greeks were influenced by …

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The Near East

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Hesiod

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Two of his works survived

  1. The Theogony
  2. Works and Days
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The Theogony

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Origin of the universe and ascension of Zeus as the King of gods

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Works and Days

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an account of the fall of man from a golden age to one of

iron.

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How did the universe start

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From Chaos

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What was created from Chaos

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Erebus 
Nyx
Gaia
Tartarus 
Eros
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Who did Gaia create (Important)

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Uranus
Erinyes
Giants

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Gaia + Tartarus

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Typhoeus

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The Fates

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Thought to be 3 sisters

  1. Spinner
  2. Apportioner
  3. One that can not be negotiated with
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Gaia

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Personification of the Earth

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Tartarous

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Far below the earth
Dark, musty basement of Earth
Land of the dead

28
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Eros

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Erotic Impulse

Desire to have sex

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Uranos

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Personification of the sky

30
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Gaia + Uranos

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Titians
Cyclopes
Hecatoncheires

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Important Titans

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Rhea 
Themis 
Mnemosyne 
Cronos 
Phoebe

Rhea + Cronos = New generation of Gods

32
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Who sprang from Uranos

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Aphrodite
The Giants and Erinyes (produced by Uranos blood spilling on Gaia)
Nymphs (from blood)

33
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Olympians

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Produced from Rhea and Cronos

34
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Rhea + Cronos

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Hestia
Hera
Demeter 
Hades
Poseidon
Zeus
35
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Hera

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Wife of Zeus
Marriage
Childbirth

36
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Hades

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God of the underworld

37
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Demeter

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Fertility of the Earth

38
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Poseidon

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Ocean and Earth Shaker

39
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Zeus

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God of the sky

40
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Omphalos

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Rock that Cronos threw up

41
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The Titanomachy

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Titans led by Cronos
Zeus leads the Olympians

Olympians won
Titans banished to Tartarous

42
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Typhoeus

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Son of Gaia and Tartarous
Dragon like

Zeus puts Typhoeus under Mt.Edna

43
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Athena

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Metis + Zeus
Zeus swallows Metis
Athena pops out of Zeus’ head

44
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What do earth-born species look like usually

45
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Pandora

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Attractive female sent to Earth as a punishment

Punishment for Prometheus stealing back fire

All the gods contributed to her

46
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Prometheus’ punishment

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Chained to a rock

Liver pecked out by an eagle everyday

47
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Ages of Man

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Hesiod’s Work and Days

Ovid’s Metamorphsis

48
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What are the Age of Man

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Golden Age 
Silver Age 
Bronze Age 
Age of the Heros (Doesn't exist in Ovid's)
Iron Age
49
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Zeus (Full)

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Sky God
Husband of Hera
Had many lovers and offspring

50
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What objects are associated with Zeus

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The Bull and the lighting bolt

51
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Hera

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Marriage / Childbirth

Mother of Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus

52
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Posidon

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The Earth Shaker

Associated with the horse

53
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Hades

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Invisible one (Face of death)
No one can willingly leave the underworld
54
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Apollo

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Aristocratic 
Thought as a young man 
Crow 
Used the lyer 
May be an imported god 
God of prophecy 
Bow and arrow =weapons 
Known for his unhappy loves
55
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Hermes

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Guides souls to underworld

God of travel, commerce, boundaries, theft and trickery

56
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Birth of Hermes

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Zeus and Maya

57
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Hermes inventions

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Invented lyre
Invented the sandle
Invented the sausage

58
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Story of Io

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Saved Io
Killed Argus (Peacock tail made in remembrance)
59
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Pan

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Son of Hermes
God of wild
Christianity associates him with the devil

60
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Hephatetus

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Blacksmith

Born from Hera alone

61
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Ares

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Worst aspects of warfare
Affair w/ Aphrodite
Adonis’ murder (Killed Adonis in jealousy)

GRST 209 UofC MT 1 (1 decks)

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