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Mythology Quiz 1
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Undergraduate 1
01/28/2008

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Myth
Definition
comprehensive term for stories primarily concerned with the gods and humans' relation to them. untrue.
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Saga/Legend  
Definition
perceptible relationship to history; rooted within
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Folktale  
Definition
often tales of adventure with aim to entertain
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Fairytales
Definition
fictional. Free of time and space
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Mircea Eliade
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20th c. man who wrote about mythology, mostly religious.
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Walter Buckert
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Myths are historical with successive layers that have changed according to time
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Rationalist
Definition
Euphemerus (ca. 300 BCE) wrote that myths are elaborate forms of historical events.
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Allegorical
Definition

composed out of elaborate symbols.

nature allegory: provides different ways of  organizing nature.

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Ritual
Definition

Myths explain rituals. Rituals lead to myths. (aition; aitia plura)

ie. bull leaping - labyrinth.  

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Psychological
Definition

myth is waking, based on sexuality.

ie - electra complex. 

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Social Charter
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myth validates social practice through supernatural. social classes:

  1. priest-king: Hera
  2. warrior: Athena
  3. producer: Aphrodite 
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Structuralism
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ahistorical; cultural; muth is a means of communication; meaning of how societies are organized. good vs. evil.
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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
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Heinrich Schliemann
Definition
1870's went to Troy, Mycenae & Tiryns and confirmed the reality of wealth, grandeur and power of Minoan-Mycenaean
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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.
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Mycenaeans
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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. 

 

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Knossos
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Minoan capital. Thalassocracy. Complex Palace - labyrinth myth with centaur. No walls.
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King Minos - Minoan; son of Zeus & Europa. King of Knossos. Judge of Underworld.
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Labyrinth
Definition
based on Knossos palace. Intricate architecture. Minotaur.
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Theseus
Definition
Athenian King; son of Poseidon; slayer of Minotaur
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Labrys
Definition
double-axe; Minoan religious symbol
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Carl Blegan
Definition
excavated Troy after Schliehmann
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Linear B
Definition
Tablets found particularly in Pylos. Listed famous classical Greek deities as recipients of offerings. Syllabary.
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Michael Ventris
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'56 - Deciphered Linear B tablets
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Paean
Definition
Title or epithet for Apollo
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Pothia
Definition
mistress or lady; supports idea of goddess worship.
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Troy
Definition
9 settlements
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Hesiod
Definition
Theogony; First to give systematic explanation for how the universe came together which is presented in Theogony. Classic Greek version.
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Chaos  
Definition
Beginning - nothing/void
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Tartaros
Definition
Came from Chaos. Place deep within the earth.
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Gaia  
Definition
Came from Chaos; the Earth
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Eros
Definition
Love
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Erebus
Definition
Gloomy darkness of Tartaros; came after Chaos. Later equated to Tartaros.
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Night  
Definition
from Chaos. One of 1st in creation of universe
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Ouranos
Definition
Male sky god produced by Gaia/Earth and varies in power dominance
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Rhea  
Definition
sister to Kronos; unites with him: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. Sky/Earth. Fertility.
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Aphrodite
Definition
Goddess of love born from the castration of her father.
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Kronos
Definition
Brother to Rhea. Eventually devours all children except Zeus who defeats him. Sky/Earth
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Demeter
Definition
daughter of Kronos and Rhea. Goddess of agriculture. Percephone's mother. Eaten by her father
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Hades
Definition
God of Underworld. Son of Kronos and Rhea. Husband of Percephone
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Poseidon
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God of the Sea
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Zeus
Definition
MAle god of Indo-Europeans. Sky. Rhea & Kronos
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Metis
Definition
wisdom; swallowed by lover Zeus after becoming preggers.
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Athene
Definition
Virgin goddess of wisdom and war. Daughter of Zeus
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Typhoeus
Definition
Dragon who joins others in battle against Gods
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Hieros Gamos
Definition
sacred marriage between sky God and Earth Goddess
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Titans
Definition
12 children of Uranis and Ge. Battle in which Zeus battle. Olympians help defeat.
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Alalu
Definition
Hittite god defeated by Any and forced to flee earth
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Anu
Definition
Hittite sky God. Reigned sky for 9 years.  Threatened by Kumarby and left for his element.
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Teshub
Definition
leads Gods and fights against Ullikummi
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Kumarbi
Definition
Caught Anu in sky and bit off his testicles. swallowed. created Ullikummi
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Ullikummi
Definition
Stone Giant whose feet are cut off.
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