WEEK 1-2 Flashcards
(39 cards)
Divine myth
Stories about gods/goddesses and their relationships with humans
Legend
Stories about “superheroes” like Hercules
Folktale
Stories about regular people (magical but not deity-related)
Aetilogical/Aitiological
Tales about reasonings/origins (why/where/when)
Anthropomorphic
Having human characteristics from non-humans
Pantheon
Set of deities in a polytheist religion. Temples and whatnot
Indo-European
Languages spoken by the greater Asia and Europe. Roots of most languages there
Cuneiform script
Script to write many near eastern languages
Linear b
Script originating from Mycenaean Greek
Archaic Greek
From 800-490 BCE (involving Homer: Illiad/Odessey)
Classical Greek
490-323 BCE
Hellenistic Greek
323 - 146 BCE
Roman Imperial
27 BCE - AD 14
Artemis
Goddess Diana: Hunt, wilderness, childbirth, virginity, bows
Aktaeon/Acteon
Mortal hunter punished for seeing goddess Diana naked -> turned into a stag as punishment and mauled by his own hunter dogs
Hittites
Civilisation alongside Mycenaeans in the 14th century BCE, perished in 1200 BCE
Sumerian empire/Sumer
Ancient civilization in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
Mesopotamia
Region in Iraq, between Tigris/Euphrates rivers
Ovid (Roman poet in 1st C AD)
Wrote Metamorphoses with Acteon and Artemis
6 primordial gods
Chaos, Gaia, Eros, Typhon, Tartarus, Uranus
Chaos
God meaning gap/void
Eros
Angel being God describing sexual attraction
Typhon
God/monster created by Gaia + Tartarus
Uranus
Sky god created by Gaia + Tartarus