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Details Title: MQ1 Description: Mythology Quiz 1 Total Flash Cards: 54 Created: 01/28/2008 22:44:58	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Definition Term Myth Definition comprehensive term for stories primarily concerned with the gods and humans' relation to them. untrue. Term Saga/Legend   Definition perceptible relationship to history; rooted within Term Folktale   Definition often tales of adventure with aim to entertain Term Fairytales Definition fictional. Free of time and space Term Mircea Eliade Definition 20th c. man who wrote about mythology, mostly religious. Term Walter Buckert Definition Myths are historical with successive layers that have changed according to time Term Rationalist Definition Euphemerus (ca. 300 BCE) wrote that myths are elaborate forms of historical events. Term Allegorical Definition composed out of elaborate symbols. nature allegory: provides different ways of  organizing nature. Term Ritual Definition Myths explain rituals. Rituals lead to myths. (aition; aitia plura) ie. bull leaping - labyrinth.   Term Psychological Definition myth is waking, based on sexuality. ie - electra complex.  Term Social Charter Definition myth validates social practice through supernatural. social classes: priest-king: Hera warrior: Athena producer: Aphrodite  Term Structuralism Definition ahistorical; cultural; muth is a means of communication; meaning of how societies are organized. good vs. evil. Term Time Periods   Definition Paleolithic (old stone age) - 2.5 million to 3000 BC Neolithic (new stone age) - 6000 to 3000 BC Minoan Civ (Crete) - 3000 to 1400 BC 1st Greek speakers in Greece to  2000 BC Mycenaean Civ (Greece) - 1600 to 1100 BC Greek Dark Ages - 1100 to 750 BC Archaic Prd - 750to 480 BC Classical Prd - 480 to 323 BC Term Heinrich Schliemann Definition 1870's went to Troy, Mycenae & Tiryns and confirmed the reality of wealth, grandeur and power of Minoan-Mycenaean Term Minoan Civ Definition Crete but power extended to Greece. Developed Religion and intricate art.  Acme 1600-1400 BC when it collapsed bc of possible fire and destruction. Thalassocracy. Worshiped fertility mother. Term Mycenaeans Definition Indo-European invaders. 1st. Greeks. Learned a lot from Minoans but worshipped differently. Culminated in 1600 - 1100 BC. Art similar to Minoan. 1st real Greeks. Worshipped Zeus, not women. Locales in Homeric tales similar to Mycenae.    Term Knossos Definition Minoan capital. Thalassocracy. Complex Palace - labyrinth myth with centaur. No walls. Term King Minos - Minoan; son of Zeus & Europa. King of Knossos. Judge of Underworld. Definition Term Labyrinth Definition based on Knossos palace. Intricate architecture. Minotaur. Term Theseus Definition Athenian King; son of Poseidon; slayer of Minotaur Term Labrys Definition double-axe; Minoan religious symbol Term Carl Blegan Definition excavated Troy after Schliehmann Term Linear B Definition Tablets found particularly in Pylos. Listed famous classical Greek deities as recipients of offerings. Syllabary. Term Michael Ventris Definition '56 - Deciphered Linear B tablets Term Paean Definition Title or epithet for Apollo Term Pothia Definition mistress or lady; supports idea of goddess worship. Term Troy Definition 9 settlements Term Hesiod Definition Theogony; First to give systematic explanation for how the universe came together which is presented in Theogony. Classic Greek version. Term Chaos   Definition Beginning - nothing/void Term Tartaros Definition Came from Chaos. Place deep within the earth. Term Gaia   Definition Came from Chaos; the Earth Term Eros Definition Love Term Erebus Definition Gloomy darkness of Tartaros; came after Chaos. Later equated to Tartaros. Term Night   Definition from Chaos. One of 1st in creation of universe Term Ouranos Definition Male sky god produced by Gaia/Earth and varies in power dominance Term Rhea   Definition sister to Kronos; unites with him: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. Sky/Earth. Fertility. Term Aphrodite Definition Goddess of love born from the castration of her father. Term Kronos Definition Brother to Rhea. Eventually devours all children except Zeus who defeats him. Sky/Earth Term Demeter Definition daughter of Kronos and Rhea. Goddess of agriculture. Percephone's mother. Eaten by her father Term Hades Definition God of Underworld. Son of Kronos and Rhea. Husband of Percephone Term Poseidon Definition God of the Sea Term Zeus Definition MAle god of Indo-Europeans. Sky. Rhea & Kronos Term Metis Definition wisdom; swallowed by lover Zeus after becoming preggers. Term Athene Definition Virgin goddess of wisdom and war. Daughter of Zeus Term Typhoeus Definition Dragon who joins others in battle against Gods Term Hieros Gamos Definition sacred marriage between sky God and Earth Goddess Term Titans Definition 12 children of Uranis and Ge. Battle in which Zeus battle. Olympians help defeat. Term Alalu Definition Hittite god defeated by Any and forced to flee earth Term Anu Definition Hittite sky God. Reigned sky for 9 years.  Threatened by Kumarby and left for his element. Term Teshub Definition leads Gods and fights against Ullikummi Term Kumarbi Definition Caught Anu in sky and bit off his testicles. swallowed. created Ullikummi Term Ullikummi Definition Stone Giant whose feet are cut off. Term Definition