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40 Cards in this Set
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divine myths |
supernatural beings are main characters; NOT religion |
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etiological tale |
explains the causes that brought the world into existence |
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legend |
human beings (hero/heroine) who belong to our order, contain an element of historical truth |
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folktale |
any traditional story that is not a divine myth or a legend; central characters are humans; entertains or teaches a lesson |
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folktale types |
made up of folktale motifs; "Cinderella type", "the quest" |
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folktale motif |
make up folktale types; "abused younger sister", "marriage to the prince" |
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Early/Middle Bronze Age |
Minoans --> Crete |
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Indo-Europeans |
came from Central Asia; brought the domestic horse and language |
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The Late Bronze Age |
Powerful kings ruled the Greeks, loved war, strongly fortified palaces. Called themselve Achaeans. Linear B script! nonalphabetic script |
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The Dark Age |
Dorians responsible for destruction of Mycenaean world Ionians Social disorg, depop, impoverishment |
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Ionians |
refugees from the Peloponnesus; took possession of Aegean & Asian Minor |
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Archaeic Period |
Greek alphabet invented Emergence of polis Creation of coinage Threatened by Perians |
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polis |
politically independent city-state; defined by geography; only men were citizens |
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Classical Period |
First democracy in Athens Peloppenesian War Socrates, Plato, Aristotle |
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Peloppenesian War |
Athens v Sparta Sparta ruled Greece, Athens never recovered |
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Hellenistic Period |
Monarchy Alexander the Great = DEAD Alexandria fell into Roman hands |
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pederasty |
"love for boys" |
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hoplites |
heavily armed men |
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parthenos |
"virgin" |
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miasma |
afterbirth |
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Narcissus |
boy who drowned from the reflection of his beautiful face in the water |
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Mesopotamia |
"land between the rivers" important source of myths; myth of origin of present world-order in a battle of the gods |
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Sumerian Myth |
Sumerians = unique lang, first city-state Gods: An (sky god), Inanna (sex & war), Enlil (storm), Enki (groundwater;magic), Ki (mother earth) ; human-like |
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Semitic Myth |
Semites = not a united people Akkadians; took over S Sumerian cities & adopted culture. Babylonians; poem of creation Hebrews: 1 god; phoenician writing |
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Hittites |
Other source of myths Bronze Age ; cuneiform written myths |
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epic |
performed before elite male audiences |
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hymn |
performed in public places; maybe women & diff social classes composed directly in writing to be memorized |
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Homer |
The Iliad (Achilles) & the Odyssey (journey) |
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Hesiod |
The Theogony (v impt) & Works and Days defines 'poet'
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humanism |
ethics (right v wrong w/out religion) and secular law |
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choral song |
memorized by a large group of dancers |
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tragedy |
focus on men; Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides |
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Aeschylus |
conflict btwn individual will & divine destiny |
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Sophocles |
fate stands behind events |
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Euripides |
power of emotion over resion passionate & female emotion drives action |
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Alexandria |
center of Greek culture Mouseion = first real library Hellenistic period: literature to be read not performed |
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Apollonius of Rhodes |
Calli Machus's pupil wrote an epic poem on Jason in style of Homer |
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Library of Apollodorus |
account of mythical events from creation of orld to death of Odysseus |
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Vergil |
greatest Roman poet; account of underworld & sack of Troy |
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Ovid |
wrote Metamorphoses; hundreds of stories strong together by theme of transformation of shape |
