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Cards In This Set
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Fables, folktakes, fairy tales, legends, saga
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Fables: explicitly fictional; give a moral lesson
Folktakes: Less social importance than myth; no author, reflect concerns of a group Fairy tales: similar to folk takes, but have a particular concern with the fairy world Legends: thought to have a historical basis Saga: Heroic deeds of a figure; epic in prose form |
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Literary Genres (2)
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1) Oral narratives: folktake, fairy tale, fable, legend, saga, epic; no distinctive author (except saga); oral AND traditional
2) Written narrative: primarily in our culture |
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Epic of Gilgamesh (key figures & themes)
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Mesopatamian myth
Gilgamesh: human/god mix who rules Urduk Utnapishtim: character who has flood narrative and becomes immortal; visited by Gilgamesh Enkidu: wild man of Mesopatamia; fights G. and they become BFFS. Eventually dies after killing a bull. Sleeps with priestess for 7 days/nights (Creation) Ishtar: goddess of love, scorned by G., sends Bull of Heaven G realizes his own mortality and goes to U, ultimately fails; immortality gained through myth |
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Enuma Elish
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Babylonian Creation Epic
cosmogony & anthropogony Marduk fights Tiamat and defeats her to become the head God; kills her lover and uses his blood to make humans (her body cut in 2 make sky & earth) Annual ceremony to celebrate this + hieros gamos |
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Hieros Gamos
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Sacred Marriage (ritually/ceremonially based I think)
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Original perceptions of mythos & logos
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M: masculine & truthful
L: less truthful & tricky |
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Greek Goddess of Memory + her daughtres
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Mnemosyne and her daughters are the 9 Muses (Zeus slept with her 9 times)
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Role of the Muses
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Provide divine authority; poets are intermediaries between the gods and humans (eg. Hesiod)
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Role of the Poet in Ancient Greece
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Mediate between the human and the divine
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Titanomachy
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Zeus's war against his father (the Titans)
It is a succession myth |
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Term for crimes against the gods and what it evokes
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Hubris evoke nemesis (punishment)
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Oracle(s)
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Place or person that is a way to communicate with the gods
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Who is the god worshipped at Delphi and what is the name of the Oracle of Delphi?
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Apollo is the god, Pythia is the oracle
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Croesus
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Ruler who built policy around oralce; lesson in the ambiguity of oracles (a great empire will fall); defeated by Cyrus.
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Xenophanes
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Philosopher
-doubts traditional views of the ogds (epic poets present horrible image of gods) -humans make gods in their own image |
