JOURN 2100: EXAM 1
47 Cards in this Set
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myth
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-One type of story
-A traditional story that has meaning to a group or culture
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What to find in a myth
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Where do I come from?
What happens after death?
How should I live?
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Bronze Age
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-The Mycenaean Age (mainland Greece)
– The Minoan Age (Island of Crete)
– Linear B (script on clay tablets, pp. 439-54)
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Dark Age
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No records
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750-479: Archaic Period
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– Homer, Iliad, Odyssey
– Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days
– Some Homeric Hymns
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479-323: Classical Period
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Three tragedians from Athens •Aeschylus
• Sophocles • Euripides
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323-31: Hellenistic Period
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Alexandria, in Egypt
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31 BC-5th Century AD: Roman Period
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Vergil
• Ovid
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Mythical Place
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-Sky / Mt Olympus =
abode of the gods
-Human world = where we live
-Underworld = land of the dead, the house of Hades
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Physical Geography
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Parthenon ect.
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Etiological myths
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myths that explain how something originated or where it came from.
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Theogony
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Hesiod
Theos+Gonos = birth of gods
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Gaia
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Goddess of the Earth and mother of all
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Anthropormorphism
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the attribution of human characteristics to non- human things or beings
ex. Gaia
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Eros (Cupid)
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Causative agent, makes things happen
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1st generation
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Gaia + Ouranos
Their Kids:
Titans (12), Cyclopes (
3), Hundred Handers (3)
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Aphrodite
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Goddess of: Beauty
Love
Sex
Came from the genitals of Ouranos when they were tossed into the sea
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2nd generation
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Cronos and Rheia
6 olympic gods were their kids
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6 Olympic Gods and Goddesses
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Hestia (hearth and home) Symbol: hearth and fire
Hera (marriage women and birth) Symbol: pomegranate and peacock feather
Demeter (agriculture and harvest) Symbol: Cornucopia
Hades (underworld) Symbol: drinking horn and scepter
Poseidon (sea and earth shaker) Symbol: Trident horses
Ze…
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Third Generation
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Zeus
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Titanomachy
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Gods v Titans
Zeus frees 100 handers and cyclopes makes him thunderbolts
Gods win and titans go to tartaros
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Typhoios
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Loses to Zeus and tried to kill him, is the god of monsoons and volcanos
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Zeus and Metis
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Prophecy says that he will have smart children
Gives birth to Athena from his head
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Athena
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Goddess of protection and wisdom
Symbol: Owls / Olive tree
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Apollo
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god of music, poetry and art
Lyre and bow and arrows
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Artemis
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Goddess of the hunt, forest and archery
Bow, stags
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Ares
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God of war
spear, helmet and dog
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Hephaistos
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God of fire and metal working
Hammer and anvil
only physically deformed god
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Hermes
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Messenger of the gods, god of thieves and traders
Symbol:lyre and a tortoise
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Dionysus
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God of wine and theater
grapevine and leopard skin
Bacchus and Bacchae
Women in the woods story
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Prometheus
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Stole fire from mount olympus to give to the people and then Zeus punishes them by giving them pandora
Gold fountain guy picture
Chained and then eaten by an eagle everyday until he is saved by heracles
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Two Fats trick
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Prometheus wants Zeus to pick the bones covered in glistening fat so that the humans can get the nourishing meat under the displeasing bull skin
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Epimetheus
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He is warned by prometheus to not accept any gifts given to him by the gods but does it anyways and Pandora is released to the humans.
Works and days
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Why is life so hard
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a. Golden Age: created by Olympians
b. Silver Age: created by Olympians
c. Bronze Age: created by Zeus
d. Age of Heroes: created by Zeus
e. Iron Age (now): created by Zeus?
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Pandora
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hope is left inside
misery and pain escape
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Zeus and Europa
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He changes into a bull and takes her to crete
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Zeus and Leda
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Zeus and Leda
changes into swan and she lays two eggs
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Zeus and Callisto
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He changes into artemis
She gets pregnant and then Hera turns her into a bull
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Zeus and Semele
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Semele wants to see Zeus in his godly form
She burst into flames and Dionysus was born
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Persephone
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Daughter of Demeter
goddess of spring
ate the pomegranate and she has to stay in the underworld for a third of the year
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Telesterion
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building at the center of the Rites
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Demter at Eleusis
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she was babysitting at the well and the baby is stolen from her
Her fertility is withheld and the deal to get persephone back is made
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arachne and athena
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-weave-off
-arachne wins, gets turned into first ever spider
-committed hubris
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contest between athena and posiedon
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competed to be patron god of athens, poseidon offered salt spring and athens provided olive tree, depicted on parthenon
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Aphrodite and Adonis
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She falls in love with him (mortal) he is killed by a boar now the spring is his rebirth
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Atalante
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races for her marriage
slowed by golden apples
she rejects her place in society
raised by bears
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Actaion
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Follower of artemis
sees her hunting in the woods
turns into a deer and then is killed by his own hounds
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JOURN 2100: GRAMMAR TEST