Week 1 Flashcards
1
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greek mythos
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“word, story”
2
Q
definition
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a traditional story with collective importance
3
Q
mircea eliade
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sacred timelessness
4
Q
3 types of etiological myths
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natural, etymological, religious
5
Q
max mueller
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all myths are allegories of nature
6
Q
carl jung
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collective unconscious, archetypes, anima and animus
7
Q
freud
A
oedipus complex
8
Q
jg frazer, jane harrison, robert graves
A
myth and ritual
9
Q
malinowski
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myths as social charters
10
Q
claude levi strauss
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structuralism
11
Q
walter burkert
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contextual approach, structuralism and classical scholarship (4 theses)
12
Q
true myth / myth proper
A
about gods and humankind relations
13
Q
saga / legend
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rooted in historical fact
14
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folktale / fairytale
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short, imaginative, traditional tales with high moral and magical content
