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Mythology Quiz 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mythology | Through stories, __ is the imaginative or inspired inquiry into the fundamental relationships of human existence |
| Muthos | means story |
| Logos | a suffix meaning “practices of stuff” “the study of” |
| Etiology | one of the types of myth, explains why something is the way it is |
| Folktale | one of the types of myth, largely for entertainment, but includes a moral lesson. Teaches what not to do. More often imaginative. |
| Legend / Saga | either an attempt of or a mimic of a historical account |
| Phaethon | Son of Apollo + Clymene (a mortal woman) |
| Apollo | Greek Sun God |
| Clymene | Phaethon’s mom |
| The story of Phaethon is an example of a(n) _? | Etiological Myth |
| Crete | an island below Greece that developed separately and later culturally combined. |
| Early Bronze Age | 3000 BC |
| 4000 BC - 1400 BC | Peak of Crete |
| Linear A | Crete's written language circa 1800 BC. Pictural, not yet understood. |
| King Minos | First king of Crete. |
| Europa | mother of king Minos. Rode Zeus (as a bull) to the island of Crete. Banged Zeus as a bull |
| Zeus (Minoan Myth) | Greek king of gods, father of king Minos |
| Pasiphae | Wife of King Minos, mother of the Minotaur. |
| Poseidon (Minoan Myth) | Greek god of the ocean and bulls. Wants King Minos' most prized bull, but when he doesn't sacrifice it, he makes Minos' wife bang the bull. |
| Minotaur | The son of Pasiphae and a bull. Imprisoned in a labyrinth in Crete. |
| Minoans | citizens of Crete |
| Matriarchal | a culture where women have more power and respect than men. Likely what the original pantheon of Crete was like until Greek influence. |
| Patriarchal | a culture where men have more power and respect than women. The dynamic of the Greek pantheon. |
| Indo-European Migration | over the course of time, the gradual move of people from the Russia-Ukraine area Westward into Europe. Caused cultural merging. Started to effect the Crete area around 2000 BC |
| Mycenae | the part of Greece where the language of Linear A combined with the languages of the Indo-Europeans into Linear B around 1500 BC. Likely the area where the Trojan war would have happened. |
| Linear B | A language derived from Linear A and an Indo-European language. Developed around 1500 BC. Later further developed into Greek. We do understand it. |
| Dorians | invaded Mycenae around 1100 BC, cause a dark age where most written language disappears and nothing is recorded until 800 BC |
| Homer | Recorded stories in 800 BC with a more developed version of Linear B |
| Hugh Hemenous (check the spelling later, way too far off to figure out what it was supposed to be) | The theory that the idea of gods come from real people that achieved such huge feats people deified them. |
| Solar theory | the theory that all myths are somehow tied to the cycle of the sun |
| Psycho Analysis | the theory that myths are like cultural dreaming and can be analyzed the same way as dreams to understand a society's psychological issues. |
| Carl Young's archetypes | the theory that humanity has a shared consciousness, and that's why cultures with no contact with each other have many similar myths |
| Hesiod | Major Greek writer that came after Homer,(750 BC), wrote The Theogony |
| The Theogony | A Myth written by Hesiod. The birth of the gods. A creation story about the 3 generations of deities and the formation of the system of power between them. |
| Chaos | a disorganized opening/pit. what existed before creation. |
| Ge (Gaia) | Woman deity that embodies the Earth literally. Was born out of chaos. Mother of the titans |
| Ouranos | Man deity that embodies the Sky literally. created by Ge then marries her. Father of the titans |
| hieros gamos | Sacred marriage between the Earth (Ge) and Sky (Ouranos) |
| The titans | The 12 children of Ge and Ouranos. Ouranos feared that they would take power from him and prevented them from being born. |
| Cronus | King of the titans. titan of fertility. lobbed off Ouranos' dick with a sickle for him preventing the titans for being born, usurped power. Father of 6 of the Olympians, married the titan Rhea. Believed to have been a pre-Greek deity |
| Oceanus | Titan that personified the oceans that encircle the earth. |
| Hyperion | Titan of the sun |
| Rhea | Queen of the Titans, married Cronus. Titan of the Earth but not physically it. Mother of 6 of the Olympians |
| Mnemosyne | Titan of memory. Mother of the 9 muses |
| Iapetus | Titan of morality |
| Saturnalia | Roman version of the Greek holiday celebrating Cronus's Golden Age |
| Magna Mater | "great mother" Ge was the first, Rhea the second, Hera the third |
| How the Olympians were born. | Cronus and Rhea had 6 children. Cronus was scared one would usurp, so he ate them after they were born, except for the 6th one. Rhea hid Zeus from him and fed him a rock instead. Zeus helped his siblings revolt against Cronus and freed them. |
| Hestia | Rhea and Cronus' first child. Goddess of the hearth |
| Demeter | Rhea and Cronus' second child. Goddess of grain and fertility |
| Hades | Rhea and Cronus' third child. God of the underworld |
| Poseidon (The Theogony) | Rhea and Cronus' forth child. God of the sea |
| Hera | Rhea and Cronus' fifth child. Goddess of marriage, Queen of the gods. Marries Zeus. |
| Zeus (The Theogony) | Rhea and Cronus' sixth child. God of the Sky and weather. King of the gods. Lightning bolt as weapon. |
| Titanomachy | War between the gods and titans |
| Cyclopes | 3 of them. one of the creations of Ge. Made Zeus's lightning bolt. Helped the gods in the Titanomachy |
| 100-Handers | 3 of them. one of the creations of Ge. Helped the gods in the Titanomachy |
| Gigantomachy | When a group of Giants challenged the new gods roles. the giants lost. |
| Prometheus and the Creation of Man | Myth written by Hesiod about how man was created. |
| Prometheus | Titan of forethought. Shaped man from clay and made them unique by making them stand upright. Punished by Zeus for returning fire to them with the eagle that eats his liver everyday |
| Epimetheus | Titan of afterthought. tasked with giving animals their qualities. ran out of the cool stuff by the time he got to man. marries Pandora |
| Pandora | "all gifts" the first woman. Tasked with holding a jar that contained all the woes yet to be unleased on mankind. Epimetheus' wife |
| Golden Age | The period during Cronos' rule. No corruption on Earth. |
| Silver Age | Gods' rule. Humans exist but there is some corruption. |
| Bronze age (in myths) | Gods and humans are more separate and more violent both to each other and within their own groups. |
| Age of Heroes | Gods and humans mostly separate. Where most Greek myth takes place |
| Iron Age | Hesiod's time. Gods and humans completely separated. They didn't want to associate as humanity got worse. |
| Zeus (Prometheus myth) | Didn't like humans standing upright like gods so took fire away from them. When Prometheus returns it, punishes him with the eagle thing and humanity with Pandora |
| Pandora's Jar (Box) | Held all the world's sorrows until (depending on the version) either Pandora or Epimetheus opens it. They all fly out and corrupt the world. The only thing left in the bottom of the jar is hope. |
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