Week one Flashcards
Types of myth, types of analysis, time periods, creation.myth (32 cards)
What is a divine myth?
Explains the world through stories of supernatural beings, distant past before human concepts of space and time
What is a legend?
Relates deeds of heroes and heroines on a more human level, distant past of human history
What is a folktale?
Teaches or justifies human customs through stories of ordinary people or animals
What are the types of analysis of myth?
Rejection, rationalisation, allegorisation
What is a polis?
Independent city state
When was the bronze age?
3500-1100 BCE
When was the iron age?
1100-750 BCE
When was the Archaic period?
750-480 BCE
When was the classical period?
480-323 BCE
When was the Hellenistic period?
323-31 BCE
Who overtook Crete from the non-Greek speaking Minoan civilisation? When?
The Greek-speaking Mycenaean civilisation. 1450.
Traditional date of the Trojan war?
1250 BCE
Why were the Minoans called so?
Labyrinthine rooms in their palaces and bulls in their artworks made archaeologists think of myth of king Minos.
When was the rise of the polis?
Iron age
In which period saw the revival of writing in Greece?
Archaic period
When was the Greek alphabet developed?
Archaic period
What is pre-socratic philosophy?
Ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates with a preference to rational thought over myth. Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Empedocles.
When was the rise of democracy in Athens?
508 BCE
When were the Persian wars?
5th century BCE
When was the sack of Athens?
480 BCE
In which style did the Athenians rebuild after the sack of Athens?
Classical
Who were some Athenian playwrights?
Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Aeschylus
When was the Peloponnesian war? Who wrote the history?
431-404 BCE, Thucydides
Who was the student of Socrates? Who did the student teach?
Plato, taught Aristotle
