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Midterm Flashcards

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Theogony’s structure: what are the three types of oral poems in the Theogony?

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  • Hymns
  • Catalogues
  • Dramatic tales
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True or False: the Theogony was the first written account of the gods creation and the most popular

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True

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Who was Anchises?

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  • Mortal prince, Aphrodite’s lover, father of Aeneas
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Who was Adonis?

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The son of a mother cursed by Aphrodite to love and seduce her own father

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Who told the story of the three sexes?

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Aristophanes

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What was the point of Aristophanes story in the Symposium?

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There was originally three genders, the third had the body parts of both men and women. Zeus seperated the third sex and that is why men and women seek love. It makes them feel whole again

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Who told the story of the platonic Eros?

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Socrates

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Who did the story of the platonic Eros come from originally?

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A woman

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What are the three stages of love according to Socrates?

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  1. Sexual attraction
  2. General attraction to body and soul
  3. True wisdom and philosophy
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What is the main interpretation of Platonic Eros?

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One must go beyond physicality of a relationship to find beauty in the world

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What is the name of the trilogy containing the Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides?

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The Oresteia

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What does the first excerpt of the Eumenides talk about?

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Functionalism, explaining the importance and establishment of laws

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What is the last excerpt of the Eumenides about?

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Athena casting her vote for Orestes, demonstrates her inability to empathize with women

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What is the Oresteia’s broad plot?

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  1. Agamemnon tricker his daughter and sacrificing her Iphigenia, Clymnestra (mother) kills him when he returns from Troy. Their son Orestes is now legally obligated to kill her
  2. Orestes kills Clymnestra and she sends Furies after him from the underworld
  3. Orestes flees and seeks help from temple of Apollo at Delphi, the god sends him to Athens where Athena sets up a murder trial
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What is the historical importance of the murder trial in the Eumenides?

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It sets up the etiology behind the real trial system established in Athens

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True or False: Athena’s vote in the Eumenides shows that for Athens, Social relationships (man to society) take precedence over blood relationships

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True

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What interpretative approach can be applied to the Oresteias?

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Structuralism w/Claude Levi Strauss

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What interpretative approach can be used for the Hymn to Demeter?

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Metaphorical and Allegorical for spiritual resurrection

18
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What did Demeter do after Persephone was captured?

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She roamed the land for nine days and eventually settled in the house of Keleos in Eleusis. She withdrew from the gods

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How did Zeus get Hera to marry him?

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He disguised himself as a cuckoo bird and when she found him and put him of his lap he snatched her

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Who wrote “A Woman’s Plea to Aphrodite”?

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Sappho

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Who was Sappho

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A married woman part of the Thyasos cult, she trained maidens in the ways of sex

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What is special about the relationship between Sappho and Aphrodite in “A Woman’s Plea to Aphrodite”?

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They are close and it isn’t their first encounter

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What is the plot of “A Woman’s Plea to Aphrodite”?

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Sappho is asking Aphrodite to makeher crush fall in love with her

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What are the three main points in Aeschylus’s the Agamemnon excerpt?

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  1. Reverential peity and human’s limited understanding
  2. Description of the three generations of gods and Zeus’ victory
  3. Pathei Mathos: suffering is the key to learning and getting wisdom
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What is the concept of Pathei Mathos?

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Suffering is needed to grow, there is a grace in suffering

26
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What is the Etiological Approach?

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Explains the origins of a fact or custom
Ex: Myth of Apollo rising the sun with his chariot

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Who came up with the rationalist approach?

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Euhemerus

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What is the rationalist approach?

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The gods were originally men who were deified for their good deeds

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Who came up with the allegorical approach?

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Max Muller

30
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What is the allegorical approach?

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All myths are allegories of nature, metaphors
MULLER = METAPHOR

31
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Who are the main two men of the Psychoanalyst approach?

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Carl Jung and Freud

32
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What is Freud’s approach to myths

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myths are similar to dreams because they represent a way for people to fulfill suppressed dreams

33
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What is Carl Jung’s approach to myths?

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Myths are a projection of our collective unconscious desires

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Who came up with the ritualist approach?

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Malinowski

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What is Malinowski’s approach to myths?

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Religion and myths are linked, myths explain religious facts and institutions

36
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Who are the three characters of the ritualist approach?

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  1. Vlad Propp
  2. Claude Levi Strauss
  3. Walter Burkert
37
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What is Vlad Propp’s view?

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finding storytelling patters in russian folktales with quest narratives, analysis only works for quest myths like Hercules

38
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What is structuralism?

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A way to analyse myths into their component parts

39
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What is Levi Strauss’ view?

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Myths are a mode of communication, society’s way of resolving conflict in a non-linear way

40
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What is Walter Burkert’s view (4 theses)

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  1. Myths are traditional tales
  2. The identity of a tale is found in its structure
  3. tale structures are founded in biological or cultural actions
  4. A myth is a traditional tale with a secondary reference of cultural importance

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