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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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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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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
Thought to be 3 sisters 1. Spinner 2. Apportioner 3. One that can not be negotiated with
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Gaia
Personification of the Earth
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Tartarous
Far below the earth Dark, musty basement of Earth Land of the dead
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Eros
Erotic Impulse | Desire to have sex
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Uranos
Personification of the sky
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Gaia + Uranos
Titians Cyclopes Hecatoncheires
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Important Titans
``` Rhea Themis Mnemosyne Cronos Phoebe ``` Rhea + Cronos = New generation of Gods
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Who sprang from Uranos
Aphrodite The Giants and Erinyes (produced by Uranos blood spilling on Gaia) Nymphs (from blood)
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Olympians
Produced from Rhea and Cronos
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Rhea + Cronos
``` Hestia Hera Demeter Hades Poseidon Zeus ```
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Hera
Wife of Zeus Marriage Childbirth
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Hades
God of the underworld
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Demeter
Fertility of the Earth
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Poseidon
Ocean and Earth Shaker
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Zeus
God of the sky
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Omphalos
Rock that Cronos threw up
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The Titanomachy
Titans led by Cronos Zeus leads the Olympians Olympians won Titans banished to Tartarous
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Typhoeus
Son of Gaia and Tartarous Dragon like Zeus puts Typhoeus under Mt.Edna
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Athena
Metis + Zeus Zeus swallows Metis Athena pops out of Zeus' head
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What do earth-born species look like usually
Serpents
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Pandora
Attractive female sent to Earth as a punishment Punishment for Prometheus stealing back fire All the gods contributed to her
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Prometheus' punishment
Chained to a rock | Liver pecked out by an eagle everyday
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Ages of Man
Hesiod's Work and Days | Ovid's Metamorphsis
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What are the Age of Man
``` Golden Age Silver Age Bronze Age Age of the Heros (Doesn't exist in Ovid's) Iron Age ```
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Zeus (Full)
Sky God Husband of Hera Had many lovers and offspring
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What objects are associated with Zeus
The Bull and the lighting bolt
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Hera
Marriage / Childbirth | Mother of Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus
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Posidon
The Earth Shaker | Associated with the horse
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Hades
``` Invisible one (Face of death) No one can willingly leave the underworld ```
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Apollo
``` 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 ```
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Hermes
Guides souls to underworld | God of travel, commerce, boundaries, theft and trickery
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Birth of Hermes
Zeus and Maya
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Hermes inventions
Invented lyre Invented the sandle Invented the sausage
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Story of Io
``` Saved Io Killed Argus (Peacock tail made in remembrance) ```
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Pan
Son of Hermes God of wild Christianity associates him with the devil
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Hephatetus
Blacksmith | Born from Hera alone
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Ares
Worst aspects of warfare Affair w/ Aphrodite Adonis' murder (Killed Adonis in jealousy)

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