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mythology test 1

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show can mean tale, or story, and that is essentially what a myth is: a story.  
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What is an important element in defining saga or legend?   show
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What is the name of an interpretation of myth that sought to rationalize it by claiming that the gods were originally powerful men?   show
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show Max Mülle  
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Who attempted to explain myths as charters of social customs   show
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show cause or reason  
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show Jung  
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Which statement corresponds most closely to Lévi-Strauss' approach to myth?   show
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what was the roles of women?   show
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show Vladimir Propp  
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show Mircea Eliade.  
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show the archetypal concept of the female in the male.  
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Who wrote the Theogony?   show
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Who is not a tragic playwright?   show
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Who is the single most important source for classical mythology after Homer?   show
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study of causation   show
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Euhemerus attempte to find historical explanations for myth is?   show
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allegory, symbolism; Max Muller are all?   show
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show oedipus complex, was the idea that the son would fall in love with his mother and hate his dad (and vice versa)  
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show collective unconscious, archetypes anima vs animus  
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show collective uncnscious  
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archetypes?   show
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anima   show
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show concept of the male that a woman instinctively harbors within her  
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show  
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show that there were different levels of interpretation; sets of binary opposites. (raw/cooked, life/death, hunter/hunted)  
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vladimir propp?   show
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walter burket   show
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show 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.  
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comparative mythology   show
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feminism in greek mythology?   show
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show 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.”  
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aohtoditw was the goddess of?   show
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show magic girdle, nude, attended by Charites (graces) or the Horae (seasons), sea shell, swans  
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show a beatidul woman, perfect in her prime  
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who were aphrodites lovers?   show
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show 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  
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demigods   show
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are heros demigods?   show
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show 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  
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zeus' duties   show
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xenophanes   show
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show fate, god, and guilty and misguided mortals, who by their own actions try to avoid their destiny, only to further its fulfillment  
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what does croesus learn through his suffering?   show
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show "never count a person happy until dead"  
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show 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  
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show 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  
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scylla and charybdis   show
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show offspring of phorcys and Ceto, chilren of pontus and Ge  
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show 3 sisters, personification of old age, their hair was gray from birth, had one eye, one tooth they were forced to share.  
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gorgons (stheno, eutyale, medusa)   show
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show gorgon, poseidon was her lover, was beheaded by persues while prego and from her corpse pegusus was born  
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what happened when the women of cyprus failed to worship aphrodite   show
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pygmalion   show
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theme we see from adonis death with aphrodite?   show
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theme of persephone and adonis?   show
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great mother and her lover, who dies at vegetation dies and comes back to life ex?   show
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eros   show
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the symposium of plato   show
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show 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  
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moritia (fates) names:   show
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