CLT3378 EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE Pandora 1 Pandora According to Hesiod Pandora means all pan gifts dora Has a box but we think it s actually a jar of evils 2 Works and Days 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 3 Didactic Also stands for moral Teaches you something like how to be a good person 4 Misogynistic There was a misogynistic strain in Greek culture This came from hating women mis hate 5 Hephaistos Hephaestus blacksmith god that forms woman out of clay and water In greek mythology Hephaistos is one of the 2 creator gods 6 Epimetheus Prometheus brother Accepts gifts from Zues although Promotheus warns him not to 7 Pyxis box That how we got Pandora s Box although it should be 8 Pithos jar There was a mistranslation Pandora s Box should ve been Pandora s Jar Jar filled with evils and hope 9 Hope 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 10 kalon kakon beautiful evil term used by Hesiod to describe women 11 Myth of the Races shows the ages Explains the devolution of people 12 Race of Heroes Race of heroes is seen in myth of the races There is no decline it does not fit jar Prometheus Prometheus 13 Titans binatural gods 12 children of Gaia and Ouranos 14 Iapetos Iapetos is a titan According to Hesiod he is the father of 15 Gaia Earth goddess Ouranos mate produce titans 16 Ouranos Sky god Mates with Gaia to produce the titans 17 Atlas Sky supporter One of Prometheus brother Punished by Zeus 18 Menoitios another brother of Prometheus We don t know much about him Thrown into Tartaros 19 Mecone 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 20 Sicyon another word for Mecone Prometheus sacrifice trick with the 21 fennel stalk a pith Prometheus uses to steal the fire He then gives that 22 Aeschylus wrote Prometheus Bound Shows Prometheus as a culture ox happens here stolen fire to men hero and Zeus as a tyrant culture as Hesiod 23 Prometheus Bound over 200 years after Hesiod In the same Greek 24 culture hero 25 Enki Ea spheres of influence cleverness wisdom fresh water Trickster god associated with human creation 26 Metis an early mate of Zues cleverness cf Thetis 27 Thetis 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 28 Typhoios Typhon Fire breathing dragon Thetis is compared to 29 Metallurgy tools Men used fire to make tools 30 Prometheus Unbound written by Aeschylus Aeschylus considers Zeus has an insecure abusive tyrant 31 Kratos power Binatural god Zeus henchman since he is a tyrant 32 Bia binatural god of force Zeus henchmen since he is a tyrant 33 Okeanids ids mean daughters of They are the daughters of Okeanos oceans 34 Okeanos 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 35 Io 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 Typhoios king king Background Reading 7 Prometheus Bound 36 Athens Athens is a city state also known as the Greek polis Athens 37 Agonistic Means competitive The Ancient Greek culture as a lost in a war with Sparta whole was intensely agonistic 38 Tragedy tragedy seems to have been largely an Athenian invention Tragedy was a prominent aspect in Greek literature 39 satyr play a Satyr play is a comic play involving satrys The stories upon which the plays were based were almost always mythological 40 Trilogy a set of 3 pieces of work that are connected Aeschylus play Prometheus Bound was part of a trilogy of tragedies 41 Sophocles Athenian tragedian His plays have survived Raven and Coyote 42 Native American Raven and Coyote were Native American tricksters The Native Americans are the first to have oral stories rather than literary stories 43 Raven Trickster god Raven creates the world and distributes the sun and moon to people NW Canada 44 Tlingit Pronounced klinkit The Tlingit people lived in Alaska and 45 Nass River Origin of Tlingit Thought that their people may have originaited around the Nass River 46 Kit ka ositiyi qa Father of Raven Allows raven himself to create the 47 Petrel Spring Controls all the water and all the fog in the world at world this spring 48 Coyote western trickster Coyote is of the Klamath people Plays dice with thunder and is cheating to win 49 Klamath Fire Thunder keeps fire in a big white rock 50 Thunder has fire in a big white rock Throws it at Coyote to kill him but it ended up being only Coyote s skin Anansi 51 West Africa Anasia was a west African trickster Most slaves sold in America came from West Africa they brought with them stories about Anansi 52 Anansi spider Trickster god Stores about Anansi came from the slaves of West Africia 53 Nyame Also called onyame Sky god Some scholars thing that Nyame and Anansi were the same 54 Kweku Kwaku Anansi Anansi as a man Day name Kweku means born on Wednesday 55 Mmoboro 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 56 Onini Python Tricks python by measuring his length to a stick Ties him up and has him captured 57 Osebo leopard Traps osebo in a hole tells him he d help him out but ties Osebos tail to a tree and kills him 58 Okyeami linguist Anansi the spider is a symbol of linguist 59 Baduasemanpensa 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 in Mesopotamia 60 Unug Summerian city Sumerians were the first human civilizations 61 Akkadian Akkadians came after the Sumerians and were heavily influenced by the Sumerians 62 Uruk Same as Unug Uruk is Akkadian 63 Bilgames He was Bilgames to the Sumerians But the Akkadians called him Gilgamesh 64 Ninsun Goddess Mother of Gilgamesh 65 Lugalbanda King and father of Gilgamesh Really special becomes a god upon his death Gilgamesh s body 66 Epic of Gilgamesh Babylonian story Gilgamesh is an arrogant king 67 Belit ili Same person as Mami Nintu Creator goddess who forms 68 Enkidu the people
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