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Stories involving the gods and their relationship with mankind
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Myths
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Story containing a kernel of historical truth, with fictional elements
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saga or legend
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Story of oral origin with elements of the fantastic, usually involving heroes or heroines.
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Folktale
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Interpretation of myth that demands the "aitia" or cause or reason for a fact, a ritual, or an institution.
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Etiology
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attempt to rationalize classical mythology. "Gods were great men who became deified"
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Euhemerism, Euhemerus, c. 300 B.C.
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Interpretation of myths as ways to explain meterological and cosmological phenomena. Max Mueller
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Allegorical Nature Myths
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Oedipus Complex, also developed the theory that myths serve the same purpose as dreams by releaseing our inner desires. Symbols in dreams work the same way as symbols for Myths.
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Frued
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Believed in a "Collective Unconcious", which is the psychic tendencies of a society. Also believed that myths contain Archetypes, which are traditional symbols which a society comes to depend.
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Carl Jung
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Worked as an anthropologist among the Tobriand Islanders, related the close conection between social institutions and myths. Myths are related to practical life.
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Malinowski
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Myths are used to negotiate between binary pairs and resolve them, structuralist
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Levi-strauss
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Made a list of terms which can be used to compare one myth to another
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Vladmir Propp
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Myths contain successive layers of meaning, and can change over time
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Walter Burkert
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Foudner of Modern Arhaeology, found the ruins of Troy and Mycenae. (1822-1890)
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Schliemann
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Found the ruins of the Bronze Age Civilization which lived in Crete in 1899, named Minoans
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Sir Arthur Evans
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Goddess of the earth, fertility mother, came from Chaos. married to Uranus
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Gaia
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Potent concept of Love, came from Chaos
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Eros
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Area of in the depths of the earth, place of punishment worse than Hades, came from Chaos
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Tartaros
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he darkness of Tartaros, another name for the place itself
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Erebos
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Children of Gaia and Uranus, have only one eye in the middle of their head. Their name means Orb-eyed, there were three, made lightening and thunder bolts
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Cyclops
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More children of G and U, massive monsters with hundreds of hands
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Hecatonchires
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Important children of G and U, became the rulers after their parents
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Titans
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Titan of the sea, he was the stream of ocean that connects all land.
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Oceanus
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God of the sun, had the son Helios
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Hyperion
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Son of Apollo, Hyperion, or Helius, wanted to ride in teh chariot of the sun for a day. Loses control and is killed by Zeus
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Phaethon
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goddess of the moon, daughter of Hyperion, drives a chariot as well, replaced by Artemis
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Selene
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Goddess of the dawn, child of Hyperion
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Eos
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Ferocious dragon who zeus killed to become the dragon killer, fought alongside the giants
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Typhon
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ages which Hesiod describes as GOld, silver, bronze, heroes, and iron,
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Five ages of man
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goddess of the hearth like her mother Hera and Artemis
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Eileithyia
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According to Solon (legendary character) the happiest man on earth, exemplifies Greek humanism
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Tellus the Athenian
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