Divine Myth
- “The beginning of things”
- True myth
- Main characters are supernatural beings
- The stories explain why the world is the way that it is
Anthropomorphism
Gods or nature is given a few human characteristics.
Legends
- Sagas
- Stories of the great deeds of humans or semi humans
- Events of the human past
- Somewhat true
Heinrich Schliemann
Believed Homer’s tories about Troy and funded an archeological dig, found proof (Priam’s Treasure) that Homer’s stories were based on historical truth.
Folktales
- Stories whose characters are ordinary people or animals
- Serve to entertain or justify why things are the way that they are from a cultural standpoint
- Fairytales
- These tales have a moral behind them
Moral Fable
Ainos
The regular appearance of certain identifiable narrative patterns in a story
Motif
“to say something differently”, similar to synbolism
Allegory
Physical Allegory
Myths about battles between gods are really representations of natural forces.
Etymology
Getting to the root of the word.
Euhemerism
Historical Allegory
The Minoans
- Elaborate palaces, significant wealth and technology
- Bull and double axes important symbols, bull symbolizes fertility
- Non-indo europeans
What did the Greek call themselves?
Hellenes
Linear B script disappeared for 400 years until the _____ with the reintroduction of writing
Archaic Age
Mesopotamia
- Near East
- “Land between 2 rivers”
- Non-indo european
- Important source for myth
Mycenaeans
- Indo-european Greek speakers
- Linear B script
- Mycenaeans ruled by powerful kings
- A warlike people
