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mythology test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| meaning of the Greek word mythos? | can mean tale, or story, and that is essentially what a myth is: a story. |
| What is an important element in defining saga or legend? | It has a perceptible relationship to history.. |
| What is the name of an interpretation of myth that sought to rationalize it by claiming that the gods were originally powerful men? | Euhemerism. |
| Who attempted to explain myth in terms of meteorological or cosmological phenomena | Max Mülle |
| Who attempted to explain myths as charters of social customs | Bronislav Malinowski. |
| What does the Greek term aitia mean? | cause or reason |
| to whom is attributed the theory of the archetype? | Jung |
| Which statement corresponds most closely to Lévi-Strauss' approach to myth? | Myth strives to resolve binary opposites.. |
| what was the roles of women? | were citizens of their communities, no votingtho.women in religious rituals was fundamental; and they participated in many festivals of their own, from which men were excluded. • A woman’s education was dependent on her future role in society, her status |
| Who is responsible for analyzing myth into 31 recurrent motifemes? | Vladimir Propp |
| to whom can be attributed an interpretation of myth centered on the spiritual or mystical yearnings of human beings? | Mircea Eliade. |
| In the psychoanalytic approach to myth, what is the anima? | the archetypal concept of the female in the male. |
| Who wrote the Theogony? | Hesiod. |
| Who is not a tragic playwright? | herodotus |
| Who is the single most important source for classical mythology after Homer? | Ovid |
| study of causation | etiology |
| Euhemerus attempte to find historical explanations for myth is? | rationalism |
| allegory, symbolism; Max Muller are all? | for of metaphors |
| what was freuds myth? | oedipus complex, was the idea that the son would fall in love with his mother and hate his dad (and vice versa) |
| Carl jung brough what to the table? | collective unconscious, archetypes anima vs animus |
| the revelation of the continuing psychic tendencies of a society | collective uncnscious |
| archetypes? | are thinks like anima, animus, old wise man, great mother (kinda like stereotypes> |
| anima | image of the female that each man has within him(concept that he responds when he falls in love |
| animus | concept of the male that a woman instinctively harbors within her |
| structuralism | |
| claude levi-strauss believed? | that there were different levels of interpretation; sets of binary opposites. (raw/cooked, life/death, hunter/hunted) |
| vladimir propp? | analyzed a select group of tales with similar features and isolating the recurrent, linear structure manifest in them. found 31 monteifs usually in the same order |
| walter burket | felt it was important to know that myth has a “historical dimension" and we must take that into account when we study the structure of a myth |
| sociology: Malinowskis believed? | myths are related to practical life and explain existing practices, beliefs, and institutions by reference to tradition; they are “charters” of social customs and beliefs. |
| comparative mythology | questions the orgin of myths |
| feminism in greek mythology? | |
| real definition of myth. | A classical myth is a story that, through its classical form, has attained a kind of immortality because its inherent archetypal beauty, profundity, and power have inspired rewarding renewal and transformation by successive generations.” |
| aohtoditw was the goddess of? | love beauty, marriage, sexual attraction, seduction |
| symbols for aphrodite? | magic girdle, nude, attended by Charites (graces) or the Horae (seasons), sea shell, swans |
| aphrodite depicted as? | a beatidul woman, perfect in her prime |
| who were aphrodites lovers? | Adonis, Anchises, |
| who was adonis | son of myrrha and her father cinyras, was a hunter that aphrodite fell in love with and warned him about wild beasts that stood stillbut dies |
| demigods | class of superhuman beings that are offsprings of a god and a mortal who may or may not be extraoridnary., are mortal! |
| are heros demigods? | not necessarily |
| is hercules a demigod? | yes he is a demigod and a hero. but he is an exception bc he joins the olympian family as a reward for his achevements |
| zeus' duties | he is the defender of all that is right or just in the mores of advanced civilization |
| xenophanes | argued that there was one supreme nonanthropomorphic god |
| Herodotean themes | fate, god, and guilty and misguided mortals, who by their own actions try to avoid their destiny, only to further its fulfillment |
| what does croesus learn through his suffering? | sin and suffering to triumph against adversity and win reconciliation with god |
| Solons POV about life | "never count a person happy until dead" |
| what does "nevr count a person happy until dead mean? | happiness of human life cant be judged until the entire span of that life has been lived and death is to be preferred to the vicissitudes of life |
| scylla | poseidon made advances to her amphitrite became jealous and threw magic herbs into her bathing place and was turned into a terrifying monster, encircles with a ring of dogs' heads |
| scylla and charybdis | were together in the sea rationalized into natural terrors faced by mariniers when they sailed through the straits |
| gorgons abd graeae parents? | offspring of phorcys and Ceto, chilren of pontus and Ge |
| Graeae | 3 sisters, personification of old age, their hair was gray from birth, had one eye, one tooth they were forced to share. |
| gorgons (stheno, eutyale, medusa) | 3 sisters that had serpants for hair. so terrigying that those who looked at them turned to stone |
| medusa | gorgon, poseidon was her lover, was beheaded by persues while prego and from her corpse pegusus was born |
| what happened when the women of cyprus failed to worship aphrodite | caused them to be the first women to prostitute themselves, and as they lost all sense of shame it was easy to turn them into stone. |
| pygmalion | hated women, were disgusted by them bc of their hooker ways! fell in love with stone |
| theme we see from adonis death with aphrodite? | the great mother and her lover, who dies as vegetation dies and comes back to life again |
| theme of persephone and adonis? | christ rises and dies (goes to underworld and then comes above) |
| great mother and her lover, who dies at vegetation dies and comes back to life ex? | adonis and aphrodite, demeter and persephone, cybele and attis, |
| eros | male counterpart of aphrodite, dual tradition for his birth, represent of factes of love and desire, god of male homosexuality, |
| the symposium of plato | |
| he idea that the gods look like people and people look like the gods. the gods and humans share certain vices and flaws such as lameness, jealousy, lying, cheating, and spitefulness. the resemble each other in physical appearance but the gods are more | |
| moritia (fates) names: | Clotho (“Spinner”) spins out thread Lachesis (“Apportioner”) measures thread Atropos (“Inflexible”) cuts thread and ends life |
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