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Jane Hellen Harrison

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Cambridge Ritualists

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Arnold Van Gennep

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Rites of passage for societal cohesion

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Ken Dowden

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Girls/Boys get different rites of passage to represent their societal split

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Nietzsche

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tragedy is a celebration of the ectasy of the moment because it reflects nihilism

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Phrygian Great Mother/Cybele

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Boundary goddess, Artemis

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Ephesian Artemis

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Anatolian/Greek Hybrid. Less virginial but not quite fertility. Bumps not boobs, testicles/gemstones instead

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Xenophone’s Ephesian Tale

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Artemis procession

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Ovid’s story of Daphne/Artemis

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Turned into a tree for eternal Virginity
Feminists examine from Daphne’s POV
Wood = boring married life

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Anthesteria

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Dionysus 3-day wine festival

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Victor W. Turner

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Limial stage involves allot of non-traditional actinos

Suspended duties

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Eric Csapo

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Dionysian masks are used in the limial stage

You aren’t yourself, you are the mask

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Attis

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Connected to Dionysus
Phrygian
Possibly head-priest of Cybele

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Froma Zeitlin

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1960s was social upheavel = Dionysus

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5 Traits of Greek Heros

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  1. Man whom has died
  2. Extraordinary deeds, may or may not be moral
  3. Premature/Violent/Mysterious death
  4. Grave worship
  5. Cults = Immortality
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Cleomedes

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Kills wrestling opponent and 60 children. Vanishes after being stoned

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Prop

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Outlines 31 things, that always happen in order but not all are always present, that happen in Fairy Tales

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Charilla

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Suicide Heroine

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Opheltes

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Child hero strangled byh a snake. Nemean Games

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Hecuba

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Queen of Troy, becomes a dog rather than be Odysseus’s slave

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Raglan

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The Hero: A Study in Tradition. Myth and Drama

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Margaret Garner

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Escaped slave that tried to kill her children to spare them slavery

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Countee Cullen

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African American Poet

Medea was racially opressed

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W.H. Auden

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Hero’s Quest

Hero’s Journeys represents the inner realities of the reader

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6 Parts to the Hero’s Quest

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  1. Precious object/person to be found
  2. Long journey
  3. Hero himself
  4. Trials for the hero
  5. Guardians of the Object the hero must defeat
  6. Human/Animal helpers that offer assistance
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Monsters

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Blur between human and beast

Live “outside” civilization

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Medusa as Mother

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Gives birth to Pegasus and Chrysor

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Perseus

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Kills Gorgons
Flies over Libya
Meets Atlas
Andromeda in Ethiopia

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Bellaphron

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Son of Glaucus, king of Corinth
Exiled for murder
Reject's Proteus's wife
Iobates sends him to slay the Chimera to kill him
Kills the Chimera, Solymoi, and Amazons
Marries Iobates's daughter
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Jason

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Pure mortal (favored of Hera and Athena)
Argos builds him a ship from prophetic oak to find the golden fleece
Lemnos (Wives killed husbands), Argonauts impregnate
Saves Phineus from the Harpies
King of Colchis, Aeetes refuses to give him the fleece
3 Trials:
Yoke fire breathing ox + plow
Defeat dragon-tooth warriors
Defeat the dragon
Return: Meet Circe, Sirens, Charybdis
Defeat Talos

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Passive Heros

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Odysseus, smart

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C.P. Cavafy

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“Ithaca”

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Joseph Campbell

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Hero’s Journey theory

Hero with a Thousand Faces

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Bearden

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Black Odysseus

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Christopher Jones

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New Heros (Social/Civil acts vs war)

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Hall’s Alternative 6 Traits of a Quest Hero

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  1. Protag of a story NOT about sex/marriage/parenthood
  2. Travel far
  3. Relationship with deity
  4. Moral/Intellectual authority
  5. Courageous/Leadership
  6. Role model for others
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Lee R Edwards

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Tries to create a new definition for a heroine
Focus on how their motiviations are often about love
Women are “marginals”

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Psyche

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Wife of Eros, mother of Joy

Mortal made immortal

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