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inspired by muses to write epic
Ex: Hesiod at the beginning of his epics |
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1)Family tree/origons of the gods
2) Descripition of how universe came to be |
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Giving human traits to non-human things
Ex. The earth is given human traits in the form of Gaia, and heaven in the form of Uranus |
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Objects (and ideas) given human form
Ex: Gaia=earth
Urans=heaven |
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| Fight between the olympians and titans that lasted ten years. Ended with the olympians winning and sending the titans into tarterous |
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Term: a person who was wise and cunning (Odysseus)
Person: first great wife of Zeus who was to bear the son that would challenge him, but he swallows her and gains her wisdom |
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descriptive phrase that proceeds someones name
Example: fair armed _____
or wise _____ |
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Explains the cause of an event
Ex: Theogony, Hymns |
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| Approaches to Understand Myth |
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Cosmological-myths explain how things came to be (Ateiology)
historical-exaggerated recolections of events in history
sociological-represents social expectations and steriotypes
phsycological-Freud(unconsicous desires)
Jung(archetypes-same structure)
structuralism-binary opposites |
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Secret annual festivels for initiation into immoratlity.
Ex: Eleusis- Demeters Mysteries to gain immortality based on the Hymn to Demeter |
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Where the mysteries of Eleusis occured:
1)fasted and walked to Eleusis for nine days
2)while walking they were made fun of (funny)
3)First thing they ate was Kykeon |
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| rituals, offerings, and prayers for the gods performed by the greeks |
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leader of souls
(Hermes role as messenger for Zeus) |
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leader of dreams
(Hermes role as messenger for Zeus) |
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Rights and responsibilites
(Hermes gains Time and therefore a purpose)-Seen in Hymn to Hermes
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more than one divine bieng
multiple deities |
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human motivations and characteristics
Ex: all of the deities are given emotions and have human like relations withone another |
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| Shield used by Athena (one of her main attributes) |
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| long stalk with ivy leaves at the end (main attribue of Dionysos) |
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| who was homer and how was the Illiad and Odysseus composed? |
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| Stories that were spoken by word-right after emerging from the dark ages and writting was still lost |
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| Repetion used in epics to fit the meter-there are certain phrases used in all of the epics used because they have a certain amount of syllables |
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six soft-soft-hard rhythme
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honor
literally means to hear (what people hear about you)
enough of it can grant you immortality |
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Household and family
Oikos is where the women are and what the men are fighting for in the Illiad |
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Shame and guilt
opposite of Kleos
Hector fought to avoid Aidos |
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Creating emotional response from audience
Illiad: Troy before and after war/ Andromache making bath for Hector but audience knows hes dead |
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| Mound made from building on top of past destroyed infrastuructures |
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| Group of people North of the Mediterainian who recorded history that might corespon with the Illiad |
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| possiblly means in Achaeans which is another word for Greeks |
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| Possible Ilion another name for troy |
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hospitality and guest-host friendship
important in Greek culture
Fundamental law
Zeus rules over it |
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In the middle of things
How the Odyssey starts (with Odysseus on Calypsos Island) |
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arrogance and excessive pride
put others in danger because your safe (agammenon)
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Telemachus' story
1)visited Nestor and Menelaus to ask about father
2) coming of age story |
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bieng like one another
a like-minded marrige (Penelope and Odysseus) |
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compare someone with the opposite of what they are
1)Odyssey-compare odysseus to a grieving woman
2)Illiad-comapre Hecotr to a murder in the presence of Achilles |
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home coming/journey home
the odyssey |
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Noman
means nobody in Greek |
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no man
used this to trick Polyphemus |
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| forgetfullness that allows peace |
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Similarites between heros:
1)seperation
2)initiation
3)return
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Hera causes hercules to kill his wife (Megara) and kids:
causes him to have to do the 12 labors |
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known all over the mediteranian
Ex: Hercules, The Odyssey |
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Becoming a God after death:
1)gain enough kleos
2)return from death-hercules went to the underworld and came back
3)have alot of kids
4)favor from a god
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| Ruled over Athens over-and-over after getting exiled with elaborate schemes |
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killed the tyrant Hipparchus
Harmadius and Aristogeiton
Tyrant slayer pose |
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Bringin villages together and form Polis'
Idea from Thesus |
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heart of the city
religous and symbolic |
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| ancestors indigenous to the land, rather than migrating there |
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Held artifacts in Athens frm the myths
one-of-a-kind shape |
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| league formed by Athens in response to persian attacks |
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first greak threat from external force
formed Delian league in response
promted a change in myth (more about savages[persians] vs. the civilized [greeks]) |
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| Temple in Athens dedicated to Athena and Posiden |
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