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Classics - Test 1 Flashcards

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divine myth

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stories about the gods that explain in many ways why the world is the way it is

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legend

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stories that involve heroes and heroines narrate events of human past

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folktales

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stories with ordinary people/animals as the main characters where the stories justify customary patterns of behavior

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etiological tale

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  • explains the causes that brought he world into existence

- explains why things are and how they came to be

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folktale motifs

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specific, common recurrence of themes in multiple works across the world that can be recombined indefinitely

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Boeotia

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ancient Thebes

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Attica

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ancient Athens

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Laconia

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ancient Sparta

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Greek Dark Age

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1200 - 800 BC

  • collapse of Mycenaean civilization
  • stronger weapons formed
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Archaic Period

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800 - 480 BC

  • renewal of large scale building/trade increase
    • founding of Olympic Games
  • Greek alphabet (more adapted than invented)
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Homer

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750 BC

wrote Iliad and Odyssey

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Hesiod

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700 BC

wrote Theogony

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Classical Period

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480 - 323 BC

  • Attic Tragedy
    • Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles
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Hellenistic Period

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323 - 31 BC

- Apollonius –> Argonautica

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Imperial/ Roman Period

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31 BC - AD 476

  • Vergil (Aeneid)
  • Ovid (Metamorphoses)
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etymology

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original/ true meaning of a word

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cognates

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words that arise from the same origin

- shared parent language called proto-indo-european

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Ancient Greek dialects

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Aeolic - Lesbos
Ionic - Athens, Chios, Miletus
Doric - Sparta

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Bronze Age

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3000 - 1200 BC

  • Minoans on Crete
  • greek speakers on Greece in 2000 BC
    • Linear A - writing left by Minoans
    • Linear B - non-alphabetic script deciphered in 1950s by Ventris
  • many legends seem to be set in late Bronze Age
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pederasty

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love for boys

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Etruscans

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responsible for the adaptation of alphabet

- gave it to romans who passed it to the greeks

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Sumerians

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people of southern mesopotamia

- created first city-states

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Semites

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not a united people but more named fro their cultural and linguistic patterns

- Akkadians: reformed the sumerian culture/myths
	- preserved myths in cuneiform in clay tablets
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Hebrews

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semitic peoples whose ancestry was traced to Abraham

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Hittites
- one of the most powerful and important peoples of late Bronze Age - controlled Anatolia (1600-1200) - preserved myths in cuneiform on clay tablets
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homeric hymns
orally composed poems (most likely by homer)
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cyclic poems
post-homeric epics ---> told parts around homers works to fill in gaps w/ illiad and odyssey influenced greek art and athenian tragedians
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choral song
type of poetry used to reflect on the glory/praise an athlete
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Aeschylus
tragedy author | - Persians
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Sophocles
loved to show the dignity of human beings in conflict with often divine sources
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Euripides
said to have showed men as they really were, not how they should be - celebrated power of emotion over reason
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Library of Apollodorus
collection/account of mythical events from the creation to the death of Odysseus
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Babylonians
- leader Hammurabi wrote all legal decisions in cuneiform on column (3600 lines) - fashioned temporary political unity from the scattered city-states in southern mesopotamia - fell after leader's death
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cuneiform
first known system of markings (first true writing) | easier/more advanced Phoenician syllabary took over (22 syllables, used to record after 1000 BC)
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mythography
written collection of myths
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Schliemann
(1822-1890) proved authenticity of homer by excavation distribution of dialects confirms the broad outline of the dorian invasion legend
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allegory
symbolic expression | speaking about one thing in terms of another
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Myth and religion
greeks were polytheistic Greek/roman religion emphasized ritual over correct belief - myth is not religion but rather small part of the phenomenon
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syncretism
mixing or blending of various traditions into one
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anthropomorphism
gods have a human form
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idolatry
worship of idols
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Xenophanes of Colophon
525 BC philosopher/poet known for cross culture comparisons that people make god in their own image with their morals criticized homer/Hesiod that they made gods do immoral things - thought god was a sphere (perfect in every way)
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euhemerism
theory that the gods were once humans
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Neoplatonism
people who followed Plato and his theories/ideas believed in a higher dimension of reality beyond the limits of time and space - a place where perfection could be achieved
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Johann Bachofen
believed that myth reflects the earlier matriarchal era
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Sir James Frazer
magic evolves into religion which evolves in into science | - myth explains ritual
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Georges Dumezil
Indo-european myths reflect pre-historic, tripartite social structure 1 - kings and priests 2 - warriors 3 - food providers
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Branislaw Malinowski
myth serves as a charter and validates social practices
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Sigmund freud
myths represent psychological tensions of he human race
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Carl Jung
myths symbolically reflect the collective unconscious of the human race - archetypes
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Claude Levi-Strauss
structuralism: traditional story is conveyed by structure relations within the content, not content itself myth is an attempt to mediate between binary oppositions -savage vs. civilized
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Walter Burkert
- myth is a type of traditional tale - crystalizes in different structures indifferent contexts - reflects basic biological or cultural patterns of actions (programs of action) - - hunting customs,,initiation rites
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ritual theory of myth
origin of myth is closely related/tied to religious rituals
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charter theory of myth
purpose of myth is to serve as a justification for the way things are
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Max Muller
saw the allegory of a struggle between sunlight and darkness in every myth - known as solar mythology
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Indo-european comparative mythology
to explain european myths in the same way and discover patterns/original meanings of myth
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Paris school of myth criticism
group of gentlemen who found the same school of tough as Levi-Strauss
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