CLT3378 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE Pandora Pandora cid 224 According to Hesiod Pandora means all pan gifts dora Has a box but we think it s actually a jar of evils Works and Days cid 224 Written by Hesiod It is didactic or moral and teaches you how to be a good person and how to live your life in a good way Didactic cid 224 Also stands for moral Teaches you something like how to be a good person Misogynistic cid 224 There was a misogynistic strain in Greek culture This came from hating women mis hate Hephaistos Hephaestus cid 224 blacksmith god that forms woman out of clay and water In greek mythology Hephaistos is one of the 2 creator gods Epimetheus cid 224 Prometheus brother Accepts gifts from Zues although Promotheus warns him not to Pyxis cid 224 box That how we got Pandora s Box although it should be jar Pithos cid 224 jar There was a mistranslation Pandora s Box should ve been Pandora s Jar Jar filled with evils and hope Hope cid 224 we wonder why hope is in the jar of evils Hesiod doesn t explain why it is there When Pandora puts the lid of the jar back on hope is trapped n the jar kalon kakon cid 224 beautiful evil term used by Hesiod to describe women Myth of the Races cid 224 shows the ages Explains the devolution of people Race of Heroes cid 224 Race of heroes is seen in myth of the races There is no decline it does not fit Prometheus Titans cid 224 binatural gods 12 children of Gaia and Ouranos Iapetos cid 224 Iapetos is a titan According to Hesiod he is the father of Prometheus Gaia cid 224 Earth goddess Ouranos mate produce titans Ouranos cid 224 Sky god Mates with Gaia to produce the titans Atlas cid 224 Sky supporter One of Prometheus brother Punished by Zeus Menoitios cid 224 another brother of Prometheus We don t know much about him Thrown into Tartaros Mecone cid 224 Place of Prometheus sacrifice trick The men and gods divide up the ox to decide who gets what Prometheus wraps bones in fat apparently good and wraps the meat in the ox stomach apparently bad so Zues ends up getting the bones Sicyon cid 224 another word for Mecone Prometheus sacrifice trick with the ox happens here fennel stalk cid 224 a pith Prometheus uses to steal the fire He then gives that stolen fire to men Aeschylus cid 224 wrote Prometheus Bound Shows Prometheus as a culture hero and Zeus as a tyrant Prometheus Bound cid 224 over 200 years after Hesiod In the same Greek culture as Hesiod culture hero cid 224 a mythological hero specific to some group who changes the world through invention or discovery Enki Ea cid 224 spheres of influence cleverness wisdom fresh water Trickster god associated with human creation Metis cid 224 an early mate of Zues cleverness cf Thetis Thetis cid 224 sea nymph Zeus marries Thetis to mortal bc of the prophecy that his son will be stronger than him But if it s a son of a mortal man he doesn t care Typhoios Typhon cid 224 Fire breathing dragon Thetis is compared to Typhoios Metallurgy cid 224 tools Men used fire to make tools Prometheus Unbound cid 224 written by Aeschylus Aeschylus considers Zeus has an insecure abusive tyrant Kratos cid 224 power Binatural god Zeus henchman since he is a tyrant king Bia cid 224 binatural god of force Zeus henchmen since he is a tyrant king Okeanids cid 224 ids mean daughters of They are the daughters of Okeanos oceans Okeanos cid 224 god of the oceans Father of Okeanids Tries telling Prometheus that Zues isn t bad he s the king and he should listen to him Io cid 224 Zeus transforms Io into a cow to stay hidden from Hera Zeus wife Hera finds out and sends a gadfly to sting the cow that is Io Background Reading 7 Prometheus Bound Athens cid 224 Athens is a city state also known as the Greek polis Athens lost in a war with Sparta Agonistic cid 224 Means competitive The Ancient Greek culture as a whole was intensely agonistic Tragedy cid 224 tragedy seems to have been largely an Athenian invention Tragedy was a prominent aspect in Greek literature satyr play cid 224 a Satyr play is a comic play involving satrys The stories upon which the plays were based were almost always mythological Trilogy cid 224 a set of 3 pieces of work that are connected Aeschylus play Prometheus Bound was part of a trilogy of tragedies Sophocles cid 224 Athenian tragedian His plays have survived Raven and Coyote Native American cid 224 Raven and Coyote were Native American tricksters The Native Americans are the first to have oral stories rather than literary stories Raven cid 224 Trickster god Raven creates the world and distributes the sun and moon to people Tlingit cid 224 Pronounced klinkit The Tlingit people lived in Alaska and NW Canada Nass River cid 224 Origin of Tlingit Thought that their people may have originaited around the Nass River Kit ka ositiyi qa cid 224 Father of Raven Allows raven himself to create the world Petrel cid 224 Spring Controls all the water and all the fog in the world at this spring Coyote cid 224 western trickster Coyote is of the Klamath people Plays dice with thunder and is cheating to win Klamath cid 224 Fire Thunder keeps fire in a big white rock Thunder cid 224 has fire in a big white rock Throws it at Coyote to kill him but it ended up being only Coyote s skin Anansi West Africa cid 224 Anasia was a west African trickster Most slaves sold in America came from West Africa they brought with them stories about Anansi Anansi cid 224 spider Trickster god Stores about Anansi came from the slaves of West Africia Nyame cid 224 Also called onyame Sky god Some scholars thing that Nyame and Anansi were the same Kweku Kwaku Anansi cid 224 Anansi as a man Day name Kweku means born on Wednesday Mmoboro cid 224 hornets Anansi pours water on the hornets nest and tells him it s raining and they need to take shelter in a hollowed out gourd he s holding The go in the gourd and he has them captured Onini cid 224 Python Tricks python by measuring his length to a stick Ties him up and has him captured Osebo cid 224 leopard Traps osebo in a hole tells him he d help him out but ties Osebos tail to a tree and kills him Okyeami cid 224 linguist Anansi the spider is a symbol of linguist Baduasemanpensa cid 224 Nyame s daughter Anyone who finds out her secret name can marry her Anansi finds out but the lizard says it and wins her hand in marriage Gilgamesh Unug cid 224 Summerian city Sumerians were the first human civilizations in Mesopotamia Akkadian cid 224 Akkadians came after the Sumerians and were heavily influenced by the Sumerians Uruk …
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