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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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