WEEK 1-2 Flashcards

(39 cards)

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Divine myth

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Stories about gods/goddesses and their relationships with humans

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Legend

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Stories about “superheroes” like Hercules

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Folktale

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Stories about regular people (magical but not deity-related)

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Aetilogical/Aitiological

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Tales about reasonings/origins (why/where/when)

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Anthropomorphic

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Having human characteristics from non-humans

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Pantheon

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Set of deities in a polytheist religion. Temples and whatnot

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Indo-European

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Languages spoken by the greater Asia and Europe. Roots of most languages there

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Cuneiform script

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Script to write many near eastern languages

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Linear b

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Script originating from Mycenaean Greek

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Archaic Greek

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From 800-490 BCE (involving Homer: Illiad/Odessey)

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Classical Greek

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490-323 BCE

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Hellenistic Greek

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323 - 146 BCE

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Roman Imperial

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27 BCE - AD 14

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Artemis

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Goddess Diana: Hunt, wilderness, childbirth, virginity, bows

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Aktaeon/Acteon

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Mortal hunter punished for seeing goddess Diana naked -> turned into a stag as punishment and mauled by his own hunter dogs

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Hittites

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Civilisation alongside Mycenaeans in the 14th century BCE, perished in 1200 BCE

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Sumerian empire/Sumer

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Ancient civilization in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)

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Mesopotamia

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Region in Iraq, between Tigris/Euphrates rivers

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Ovid (Roman poet in 1st C AD)

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Wrote Metamorphoses with Acteon and Artemis

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6 primordial gods

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Chaos, Gaia, Eros, Typhon, Tartarus, Uranus

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Chaos

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God meaning gap/void

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Eros

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Angel being God describing sexual attraction

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Typhon

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God/monster created by Gaia + Tartarus

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Uranus

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Sky god created by Gaia + Tartarus

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Gaia
Earth goddess
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Tartarus
God meaning beneath earth
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5 titans
Cronos, Rhea, Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus
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Cronos
Last born titan, leader of titans, father of the Modern Greek Parthenon - eats children - Basically was a bad dad lmao - puked out the other kids
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Rhea
Wife of Cronos, titan as well
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Titan condemned to carry the heavens on his back
Atlas
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Prometheus "forethinker"
Stole fire, condemned to get his liver taken everyday by an eagle
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Epimetheus "hindthinker"
Stupid titan married to Pandora and tasked to populate earth
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Hesiod (works & days & Theogony)
Poet writing a little before 700 BC (late 8th C) after the greeks adopted the alphabet - Theogony: systemized explanation of the gods and how they came to being (family tree) - works and days is an instructional farming manual, but also gods and explanations (His version of the myths became a foundation and basic form of the Greek myths)
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Hesiod (Theogony) KEY SOURCE
Basically where the Gaia asexually produced most of the offspring. Uranus, Mountains, Pontus (sea), etc Chaos asexually made his own children as well
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Aphrodite/Venus
Birthed from the genitals of Uranus written by Hesiod Theogony - she appears from the foam of the sea and landed in Kythera, then went to Cyprus - Sometimes she appears from a seashell
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Zeus/Jupiter
- Daddy Cronos tried to eat Zeus and his children but he gets hidden in a cave in Crete and replaced by a stone - also a dragon killer for killing Typhon after Gaia gets mad at him
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Gigantomachy
- The battle of gods and giants symbolizing civilization and disorder - Final battle between gods and giants (children of Gaia, look like snakes) - Not described by Hesiod but depicted by later scholars - Hercules fights with the gods - Defeated giants are imprisoned under the mountains, turning into volcanoes
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Pandora
- woman made from a gift from all the gods in the pantheon and fashioned her a jar that she opened and let out all bad things - wife of Epimetheus - written by Hesiod
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Deucalion and Pyrrha
- warned by Prometheus that a great flood and construct a boat to hide in since Zeus will flood the place - son of Prometheus and daughter of Epimetheus - They repopulate earth - written by ovid too