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Greek Mythology Questions and Answers Context A basic grasp of the history surrounding each work allows the reader to understand how contemporary religious beliefs, cultural developments, politics, and intellectual currents affected the portrayal of each myth. Literary Artistry Each genre...

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Greek Mythology Questions and
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Context - answer A basic grasp of the history surrounding each work allows the
reader to understand how contemporary religious beliefs, cultural developments,
politics, and intellectual currents affected the portrayal of each myth.

Literary Artistry - answer Each genre of literature has certain conventions that
affected how ancient authors employed mythological motifs. This issue becomes
especially important as traditional beliefs waned since authors could then exercise
considerable "poetic license."

Theoretical Analysis - answer Mythology is of continued interest because it
represents the attempt to understand the human condition. The issues that faced the
ancient Greeks and Romans are the same ones that confront us today.

Areas of human experience and interrogation illuminated by myth - answer
cosmology, theology, anthropology, gender, sociology, soteriology, patriotic saga

Meaning of "Myth" - answer - Greek term mythos meant simply a story or an account
and did not have any bearing upon the tale's truthfulness

- "...a prescientific and imaginative attempt to explain some phenomenon, real or
supposed, which excited the curiosity of the myth-maker, or perhaps more accurately it
is an effort to reach a feeling of satisfaction in place of uneasy bewilderment in the face
of such phenomena. It often appeals to the emotions rather than reason and, in its most
typical form seems to date from an age when rational explanations were not generally
called for."

Types of Myths: - answer Myths (narrow sense): mistaken explanations of
phenomena, whether of human life or of external nature [pre-scientific science]

Legends: traditions, whether oral or written, which relate to real people in the past, or
which describe events, not necessarily human, that are said to have occurred at real
places [preliterate history]

Folk-tales: narratives invented by persons unknown and handed down at first by word of
mouth...purely imaginary, having no other aim than the entertainment of the hearer
[preliterate fiction?]

Nature Myth - answer A natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with
deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.

,Ex. Persephone being dragged down by Hades and it explains why the world goes into
Winter

Aetiological - answer Study of causes, origins, reasons

From the Greek aition for "cause"
i.e. all myths offer a cause or explanation of something in the real world

In the broad sense, causal, explaining why anything is the way it is
In the narrow sense, etymological, explaining names, etc.

Social Charter myth - answer All myths are social charter myths

For social customs, institutions, or beliefs

Religious Ritual Myths - answer Myths brought on by religion.?

Creative Era - answer All myths are creative era myths

Compare with the Creation, Fall, and Atonement > how do we reclaim a lost paradise or
gain a better state?

Heroic - answer showing extreme courage

Myths tend to tell a story a heroism.

Folktales - answer a story that often provides a moral lesson

Psychological myth - answer provide models for personal conduct

Literary Mythology - answer They wanted to tell good stories for entertainment

Structuralism (binary opposites) - answer Hunter/hunted, life/death

Feminism - answer The belief that women should have economic, political, and
social equality with men

-Artemis and how she is strong.

Minoan - answer setting of early myths and legends




c. 2000-1400 B.C.

, Palace culture
Redistributive economy
Surplus used in trade
Presumably a literate society
Linear A, still undeciphered
Clues to society and religion . . .
Historical/Mythological Traditions:
Minos
Theseus
Minotaur
Labyrinth
Bull motif

Mycenaean - answer setting of early myths and legends



-c. 1400-1150 B.C.
States based on palace centers, heavily influenced by the Minoan civilization
-Palaces heavily fortified, grave goods include many weapons
-Linear B script which has been deciphered
-Names of several Greek gods listed
-Still, no narrative histories or detailed accounts of myths!
-Greek-speaking people, precursors of the Ionian peoples
-Worshiped a sky-god (Zeus)
-Setting for the so-called -"Heroic Age"
including the Trojan War

Bronze Age - answer included the Minoan and Mycenaean era

3000-1150 BC
a period of human culture between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, characterized by
the use of weapons and implements made of bronze

Dark Age - answer Oral traditions preserved and embellished



1100-750 BC

a period of warfare and disorder

The Archaic period in Greece began - answer Homer and Hesiod's poems were
transcribed
myths began to be "set"

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