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14 Cards in this Set
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anthropomorphism
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attribution of human features and qualities to something non-human
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questioning
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If gods exsist why is there evil and injustice
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rationalizing
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centaurs=men on horseback, percieving something for what it is not
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anthropomorphism (god associated/text)
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xenophanes p.433-4
-"But mortals believe that gods are begotten, and have clothing, voice, and body like their own -"But if oxen and horses and lions had hands and so could draw and make works of art like men...they would make their (the gods) bodies in accordance with the form that they themselves severally possess -"The gods have not, of course, revealed all things to mortals from the beginning; but rather seeking in the course of time, they discover what is better" |
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questioning (god/text associated)
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Euripides p.107-8
-"Does anyone say there are really gods in heaven? There are not! There are not, if any mortal is willing not to employ foolishly the old way of thinking. -"I also know that some small cities have honored the gods, but they submit to larger, more ungodly ones because they are beaten, outnmbered in spearmen |
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rationalizing (god/text associated)
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Palaephatus p.329-39
-"gullible people, unacquainted with wisdom and scientific knowledge, believe everything they are told, while those who are naturally more intelligent and analytical disbelieve that any of these things happened at all -centaurs: "those looking at them from behind and from far away could only see the backs of the horrses, not their heads, and the upper part of the men, not their legs...from this image...that a horse-man was born |
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Euphemerism
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Gods are just exagerations of historical figures
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Historical Interpretation
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myths have some basis in historical events
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Allegorial Interpretation
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stories have deeper meanings, beyond the surface
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Etiological Interpretation
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etiology=orgin
Etiological myths explains the orgin of something |
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Comparitive Interpretations
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Same stories in different cultures.
patterns of influence universal expression of human feeling |
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Psycological Interpretation
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myths express universal fears, desires, etc.
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Sociological Interpretations
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myth supports the way society operates
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Hesoid, Theogony p.129-60
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-"Birth of the Gods"
-a description of how the universe came to exsist in the form his audience recognized: That process of evolution takes place through the birth of gods -Gaia=Earrth -Tartaros=Underworld -Ouranos=Sky, heaven -Eros=power of desire -Cronos castrates Ouranos--leads to birth of aphrodite -cronos marries rheia and has children but swallows them b/c he knows kids are dangerous -prometheus tricks zeus and is punished--creation of women for prom. mistakes |
