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324 ce |
End of roman empire |
end of great empire |
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700 BCE |
time of homer |
great author era |
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allegory |
myths metaphorically explain human history and human institutions. |
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allo-centric |
more concerned with interests of others |
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aphrodite |
born from sea foam |
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apollo |
lyre player, helped paris kill achilles |
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apollodorus |
wrote chronicle. and on the gods |
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archaic period of greece |
following the dark ages it was from 800 - 400 bc |
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ares |
god of war |
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artemis |
female twin of apollo |
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athena |
born from zeus' head, goddess of war |
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atlas |
primordial titan, holds up celestial spheres |
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calliope |
muse of the illiad and odyssey, muse of eloquence |
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cerberos |
hades multi headed watchdog |
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chimaera |
3 headed monster, sibling of Cerberus. (lion, goat, snake) |
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chthonic |
non Olympian gods |
non olympian |
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claude levi-strauss |
French father of anthropology, founder of structuralism |
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clio |
muse of history |
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cosmogony |
story of origins of the universe |
creation |
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cosmological |
don't kno |
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cyclopes |
brothers of titans, primordial beings |
1 eyed craftsmen |
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demeter |
mother of Persephone, came to earth and served disguised as a maid. "mother earths" |
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demophan |
the human child that Demeter took care of as a maid |
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dionysius |
god of wine and pleasure |
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echidna |
mother of monsters |
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ego-centric |
focused on self |
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Eleusinian mysteries |
even after conquered by Athens, Eleusis retained power over the mysteries. 9 days |
bridge crossing |
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eleusis |
where Demeter served as a human maid |
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epimetheus |
brother of prometheus |
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epithets |
glorified nickname |
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erato |
muse of love songs |
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etiology |
why we study something |
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euterpe |
a muse, giver of delight |
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fable |
teaches a lesson using fantastical stories |
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fates |
made up of 3, determined life spans, shapes humans lives. |
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folktale |
fanciful, magical, rarely contain any fact. capture a cultures values. |
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furies |
female spirits of justice and vengeance |
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gaia |
"mother" earth, mother of kronos |
uranos lays on her all day |
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geryon |
10th labor of herakles, geryons cattle were to be taken. |
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giants |
included the hundred handers |
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gorgons |
medusa and her sisters |
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graiai |
grey eye, sisters shared one eye and one tooth |
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hades |
god of underworld |
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harpies |
female monster, bird with human face |
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heakte |
goddess of magic, ghosts, necromancy |
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hephaistos |
hera's baby by herself. her rejoinder to zeus' creation of Athena |
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hera |
majestic, solemn sister of zeus |
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hesiod |
author of theogony |
author same era as homer |
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hestia |
virgin goddess, eldest and youngest sibling of zuess. first child of rhena and kronos |
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homer |
author of illiad, oddyssey |
ancient author, not real |
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hundred-handers |
obriareos, cottos, gyges, freed by zeus to help defeat titans in titanomachy |
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hydra |
many headed serpent |
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kosmos |
universe as an ordered system |
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kronos |
father of zeuss, helps mother castrate father |
original ball snatcher |
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legend |
based on historical personages or events, may contain some form of historical fact |
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macrocosmic |
the universe |
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melpomene |
muse of singing and tragedy |
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metis |
titaness of wisdom |
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microcosmic |
societal |
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mnemosyne |
titan goddess of memory |
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muses |
goddesses of song, dance, poetry |
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myths |
greek-something someone says now- something not true but truth is irrelevant to ancient myth |
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nymphs |
female spirits of the natural world |
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olympians |
zues' brothers and sisters, reside in olympia |
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orality |
thought and expression where written word is not prevalent |
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ouranos |
father of kronos, oldest male god |
received the sickle treatment |
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panathenaea |
celebration of city and countryside |
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panhellenism |
Olympic games, travelling bards |
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persephone |
was stolen and raped by hades daughter of Demeter and zeus |
also know as kore |
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polyhymnia |
a muse of poetry |
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pomegranate seeds |
offered to Persephone by hades to keep her in underworld |
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poseidon |
sea god, earthquake maker |
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prometheus |
stole fire from Olympus to give to man |
mans friend, trickster |
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rhea |
bears kronos' children, gives him a stone to eat |
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ritual |
symbolic activity in a religious context |
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structuralism |
myth contains a structured system of symbols. structural oppositions in stories: hot/cold, day/night, male/female.d |
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succession myth |
older vs younger generations, replacement potential of reproduction |
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terpsichore |
a muse, goddess of dance |
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thalia |
a muse, patron of comedy, |
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theogony |
origins of the gods |
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theomachy |
battle of the gods. resulted in Olympians victory over titans and dominion over the world |
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theos |
unknown god |
placeholder |
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theoxeny |
genre of myth where a god takes the form of a stranger to test a host's hospitality |
hospitality to gods |
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thesmophoria |
festival of Demeter and Persephone,3 days |
re enactment of stolen girl |
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titanomachy |
war of the titans |
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titans |
race of gods born from gaia and ouranos |
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typhoios |
epitome of destruction, capable of destroying the universe, zeus throws it into tartarus |
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uniformity/variation |
dnt kno |
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urania |
muse of astronomy |
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withdrawal and return |
organizing principle for all narrative myths |
separation and reunion |
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zeus |
king of gods |
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