Mythology and Story of Prometheus Flashcards
I LOVE GREEK MYTHOLOGY 1 2 3 4 5 6 (45 cards)
the word mythology came from the greek word?
mythos
word or speech
logia or logos
it is the imaginative fiction of the minds of the ancient natives of a country who believed that there were some kind of nature gods who were involved in the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the world.
Myth
a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of factor natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite or, phenomenon of nature.
Myth
he believes that myths are stories, usually about gods and other supernatural beings
Frye
he believes that they are often stories of origins, how the world and everything in it came to be in illo tempore (in that time)
Eliade
he believes that they are usually strongly structured and their meaning is only discerned by linguistic analysis
Levi-Strauss
he believes that they are public dreams which, like private dreams, emerge from the unconscious mind
Freud
he believes that they often reveal the archetypes of the collective unconscious
Jung (hoseok ok sorry SANA MAKASECURE AK NG TICKETS AYOK N)
he believes that they are symbolic and metaphorical
Cassirer
he is considered the God of Fire and is one of the Titans
Prometheus
He was the Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel who was given the task of molding mankind out of clay
Prometheus
she was the first mortal woman in Greek mythology, a sort of an Ancient Greek Eve
Pandora
She was molded by Hephaestus and endowed with gifts by all the other Olympian Gods
Pandora
the meaning of Pandora
All-Endowed
He was the product of a union of a mortal woman and a god.
Heracles
it means ‘All the Gods’
Pantheon
divine, immortal beings usually created out of the sexual union between other immortal beings, or unorthodox nativity
Gods
minor deities or the offspring of gods and mortals. Usually have special powers and can be raised to divine status
Demigods
exalted morals can die, but can perform special feats on Earth. They are also an offspring of a god and a human
Heroes
primordial deities, parents of the titans
Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth)
God of time, king and leader of the titans, father of the gods, led the titans in overthrowing Uranus
Kronos
goddess of motherhood, fertility and childbirth, mother of the Gods
Rhea
titan God of Forethought, God of Fire
Prometheus
