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something someone says
characteristics
1. plot
2. characters
3. Setting (Usually Bronze Age Past)
4. Traditional stories - Latin Trado
5. Multiple resources
- evidence found in literary genres of poetry and drama
- remote settings, Deities larger than life, patriarchal society, emphasis placed on gender variations, variations of same myth |
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Conflict between two represent conflict in human life
Athena
- war, wisdom, weaving
- born fully grown and armed from Zeus head
- powerful, wise, virgin goddess
- rationalized force for civilized order
- Zeus swallowed pregnant mother in fear son from Metis (goddess of intelligence) would overthrow him
- Athena born after Zeus suffered a migraine, takes hammer to his head releasing her
Dionysos
- born from Zeus thigh
- Zeus revealed his true form (lightening bolt) to his mother; burning her to a crisp
- sewn to thigh to protect baby from Hera
- God of wine and theater
- irrational force of human and physical nature |
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- polytheist
- worshiped in temples
- all gods come from Gaea (earth) and Ouranos (sky)
- loved and laughter at Gods
- Gods are unpredictable and unserious |
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| - rational account from which author is responsible for truth of what is said |
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- deities are main characters, stories explain why world is the way it is
- easily misunderstood as Greek Religion
- Anthropormorphic |
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double headed axe used in bull sacrifice
labyrinth - derived from labyrs meaning maze |
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| Major Chronological Periods |
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Minoan - unfortified palaces (strong navy?), Labrys, Snake goddess
Mycenaean - 1600-1100 BCE, mainland Greece, spoke early Greek; mask of Agamemnon, highly fortified cyclopean palaces, Minoan influential art because of Minoantakeover in 1400 BCE, Linear B
Dark Age: 1200-700 Destruction of Mycenaean palaces, small chieftain societies living central to small houses
Archaic period: writing from Phoenicians, colonization, Greek polis, monunmental temples, 776 BCE first olympics @ olympia
Hellenistic Period 323 - 31 BCE - library of Alexandria, library @ Apollodorous, anthology of Greek myths, Poems modeled on Greek myths (epic poems in style of Homer; i.e. Aeneas and Ovid |
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1. Homer - 750 and 725 BCE
2. Hesiod - Theogony works and days
3. Homeric Hymns - written in imitation of Homer -- not by actual homer |
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Minoan - unfortified palaces (strong navy?), Labrys, Snake goddess
Mycenaean - 1600-1100 BCE, mainland Greece, spoke early Greek; mask of Agamemnon, highly fortified cyclopean palaces, Minoan influential art because of Minoantakeover in 1400 BCE, Linear B
Dark Age: 1200-700 Destruction of Mycenaean palaces, small chieftain societies living central to small houses
Archaic period: writing from Phoenicians, colonization, Greek polis, monunmental temples, 776 BCE first olympics @ olympia
Hellenistic Period 323 - 31 BCE - library of Alexandria, library @ Apollodorous, anthology of Greek myths, Poems modeled on Greek myths (epic poems in style of Homer; i.e. Aeneas and Ovid |
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| 1. Homer - 750 and 725 BCE 2. Hesiod - Theogony works and days 3. Homeric Hymns - written in imitation of Homer -- not by actual homer |
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| Ancient Greek ways to interpret Myths |
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Presocratic
1. Xenophanes 500 BCE - Attacked morality of Gods, dont have human shapes, not born
2. Theogenes - 525 BCE - Myths are allegorical
3. Anaxagoras - 500-428 BCE - Homeric poetyr about virtue and morality
Plato - gods are immoral
Eukemenis - wrote sacred scripture, gods originally mortal elevated to divine status |
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Nature Myths: Max Mullin 1800-natural phenomena, deities to explain opposites and seasonal changes
Myth and Ritual: arose to explain rituals
Charter theory - (Malinowsky) justify social customs
Etiology - explain why world is the way it is and societal institution; derived from Greek Aition (cause) |
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Product of Human mind
Freud - myths related to dreams (Oedipus complex) sons of oppressive father rose up against him, expel or kill hi, take possession of his women (mother)
Jung - all myths have universal archetypes part of collective unconscious, male and female deities are part of human conscious i.e. anima and animus
Structuralism - (Levi-Strauss) min is binary - deals in opposites just as myths do
Feminist - narratology and deconstruction to interpret myths from perspective of women |
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| Near Eastern Creation Myths |
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| Enuma Elish - Babylonian Union of fresh water (Pupsel) and Saltwater (Tiamat), 4 generations of gods born - Anu = Sky, |
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