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| Where is Hesiod's father from? In what place in the Greek lands does he settle? |
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| Kyme in Aeolis, settled in Askra |
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| Whom does Zeus send to tell Hades he must return Demeter's daughter? |
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| Who are the parents of Hermes? |
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| At the beginning of the poem, what kind of child/god does the poet say Hermes' mother bore? |
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| Ariadne (helps him escape labryinth with yard from minotaur) |
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| What kind of girl should a man aim to marry? |
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| virgin, 5 years past puberty |
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| Aphrodite cites several deities who've slept with mortals. Which mortal does she say Zeus mated with? and Eos? What happened to these mortal loves? |
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Zeus mated with Ganymede
Eos mated with Tithonos
they were granted wishes and immortality |
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| What are some characteristics or attributes of Apollon? What concerns him? What are his interests? How might you see him depicted in art? |
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patron god of music and poetry (carried lyre)
in art has laurel wreath, python, raven, bows and arrows |
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| Why is it interesting that the poet calls the sea "wine dark" in reference to Dionysos? |
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| symbolizes anger and wrath |
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| Who/what are the first deities/elements to come into being in Hesiod's account of the beginning of the world? |
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| Chaos, Gaia (mother earth), Tartaros (underworld), Eros (exoctic desire) |
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- is mother earth
- one of the primordial forces
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- one of the two oracles (along with Helios) Demeter consults to find the location of her daughter
- He is in the underworld.
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| Hesiod is from here. It’s a place |
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| another name for Aphrodite |
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Persephone is the daughter, Zeus is the father.
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Hades kidnaps Persephone, Demeter (mom) gets sad, consults Helios & Hekate to find where her daughter went. Demeter ends up in Eleusis, becomes a nurse to blend in.
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People piss her offf tells them to build a temple, etc. creates famine. Finally Zeus takes charge, sends Hermes (not iris) to tell Persephone to leave. She eats a pomegranate seed, has to live with Hades for 1/3 of year explains the seasons.
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| virgin goddess of the hearth and architecture |
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- Husband of Aphrodite, son of Hera
- God of blacksmithing
- cripple, zeus threw him off the mountain
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| According to Hesio'ds Theogony what existed first? |
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- In the beginning there was chaos.
- He was among the primordial force
- there was also gaia (mother earth)
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Which myth demonstrates the phases of childhood initiation?
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| According to Freud, the stage that takes place in from 2 to 4 is? |
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| Athena is goddess of war in what respect? |
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| which myth most exemplifies feminine guile? |
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| Who was the last of the gods to join the Greek Pantheon? |
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| The three stages of coming of age |
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| Separation, liminal zone, reintegration |
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| Ancient pottery showing women dancing around the altar reflects what? |
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| marriage, chastity, maiden ideology, liminality |
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| In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, lovely haired Leto has trouble finding a birth place forher twins. Which island finally takes her in? |
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| According to the Odyssey, what is the earliest named constellation (book V) |
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| How did zeus put an end to the succession crisis? |
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| By swallowing Metis, his first wife. |
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| Artemis's Brauron was a what intended for whom? |
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| What are some epithets associated with Aphrodite? |
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| laughter-loving, kytherian, golden, cyprian |
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Golden: Age of Cronus
Silver: Age of Zeus
Bronze: Men with war as passion
Heroic: Men lived with demigods and heroes and went to Elysium
Iron: Might makes right, Deny Xenia, misery |
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| treats mythological accounts as a reflection of historical events, or mythological characters as historical personages but which were shaped, exaggerated or altered by retelling |
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| a description of timeless realities in the form of temporal events |
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| Which of the following characters is generally assocaited with the term Potnia Theron? |
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| The judgement of Paris is often interpreted as what kind of allegory? |
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| Which sumerian god is likened to Zeus from Greek mythology? |
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| Most likely Teshub, who deposed his father Tiamat and is the god of thunder, sky, w.e |
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| This historical figure was known for the breakthrough connections he made concerning ancient myths and their connection to Christianity. His greatest known work was the Golden Bough. |
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Functions of Id, Ego, Super Ego |
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Id:"pleasure principle"
Ego:reality principle long term pleasure
Super Ego: conscience |
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| Who is associated with the Ritual Theory of Myth? |
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| What kind of myth does the theogony serve as? |
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What are some epithets for Athena?
For hermes? |
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Pallas, Virgin
Argeiphontes (Argus slayer) |
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| Which god/goddes was the one born as a result of Zeus eating his/her mother? |
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| Who kills Erechtheus and why? |
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| Poseidon kills Erechtheus for murdering his son Eumolpus |
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| In the Kings of Athens who gets their tongue cut off? |
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| What race of people did Apollo lead to Delphi to become his first priests? |
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| In the Babylonia creating epic "Enuma Elish" who are the primeval parents of the gods and what were they sysmbols of? |
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| Apsu/Tiamat;freshwater/seawater |
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| Who is Ixion and what did he do? |
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| He was the first recorded kin-slayer in greek myth. Zeus orders Hermes to bind him to a spinning wheel of fire. (sun?) |
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| The ferryman to the underworld |
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| The river of hades; the river of pain; river in the underworld |
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| The myth of Er speaks of what happens in the afterlife |
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| Believed in Transmigration of the souls; mathematics important |
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| Worshipped by followers of Orphism; his death resulted in the creation of man, a mixture of good and bad |
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| Trip to the underworld; plays lyre to try and bring her back |
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| Afterlife where the heroic and good go to |
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| Violated xenia and is punished by being forced to roll a boulder up the hill |
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