Pt. 1 Flashcards
Myth, Ledgend, Fairytale
-Myth (proper): stories pertaining to gods and
human relations with them – i.e. supernatural
-Legend / saga: stories that take place in the
‘historical’ world – i.e. within the world as we
know it
-Folktales and fairytales: ‘stock’ stories, e.g.
Hero vs. Giant, wicked stepmother, mistaken
identity
Important texts, list some
homer: Iliad and Odyssey
Virgils Aeneid
Ovid (metamorphosis)
mutability
can do so many things but still have to work with set timeline (BATMAN: born patients killed, batman) but space in between is changeable, later details can get fixed (bat mobile)
Hesiod
sheperd/farmer, found story on mt.helcon, muses were the invocation, wrote in epic meter
How’s it start
Chaos –> Gaia–>Eros–> sex is the catalyst,
Gaea makes uranus (heaven)
Gaea and Uranus
mountains, oceanus, rhea thea Cronus, giants (natural, like 200handed hecatoncheires) cyclopses and sent them to tartarus
Kronos vs. Uranus
gets silver adamant sickle and castrates uranus (loses power and verity to reproduce) then the penis falls into oceans where sperm becomes aphrodite
Cronus and Rhea get busy…but too much?
echidna (snake lady), cerberus, hestia, dementia, hera, hades, posid, zeus, eats then Rhea gives him stone zeus and zeus is raised in cave by Curetes with the goat Amalthea
Titanomachy
war of titans, zeus wins with lightening, atlas hold up world, (basically Zeus defeats the titans)
gigantomachy
typhoeus (snake body) giants born of gaea
centre of the greek world?
Delphi
Mycenaean
Megaron for cheif
things lost and reduced to oral traditions
city of Knosos has centre what’s it hold *minitar?)
warfare so people moved out of the hubs
lion head gate at palace of mycaean
giant cyclopean walls (only cyclopses could build it)
rich and military based
linear B tablet
Prometheus and mans start
man from clay (from earth and tears or cause Zeus asked). ran out of clay so prom cares for us
5 ages of man
gold (awesome), silver (babies), bronze (war), heroic, iron
prometheus and fire
butchered cow trick gods into taking bone, Zeus took away human fire, prom steals it back, Zeus gets prom tied to mountain and eagle eats his liver even day till hercules rescues him