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Mythology Introduction Questions and Answers A. We are able to learn how humans thought and felt B. How men viewed his surroundings C. Connection between people of that time and the earth D. We are able to see a time when the world was younger than it is now What are we able to learn about hum...

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A. We are able to learn how humans thought and felt
B. How men viewed his surroundings
C. Connection between people of that time and the earth
D. We are able to see a time when the world was younger than it is now - answer
What are we able to learn about humanity through their myths? Identify three things

Ancient man saw the world as a terrifying place with horrors to be feared. - answer
How does Edith Hamilton describe the worldview of primitive man?

A. It shows like a fear of their surroundings
B. the gods are human life/in their own image
C. they were written by great poets not storytellers
D. mankind is the center of the universe not part of a foreign alien world - answer
How do Greek myths differ from the myths of primitive man? identify four ways

A. Oldest piece of Greek literature that we have
B. shows what early civilized Greeks were like - answer Why is the Iliad significant?
Give two reasons

The Iliad contains the oldest written work from Greece, 1000 BC written by homer. -
answer What is known about the Iliad?

They saw beauty in mankind and man and wanted to capture it in their mythology. They
were not focused on what was terrifying or irrational but on what was real. They
transformed a world of fear into a world of beauty. - answer In what ways were the
ancient Greeks different when it came to their mythology

They were inflexible towering gods who were cruel and inhuman - answer Describe
Egyptian gods

They wish to center the myths on humans and human qualities freeing men from the
omnipotent (all powerful) unknown so that heaven became a pleasant and familiar place
- answer Why did the Greeks make their gods appear so realistic

Zeus - answer Multiple love affairs, caried a thunderbolt, was possibly once a rain
god God, deliver of justice

Hera - answer Zeus is jealous wife, play tricks on her husband, cow faced, queen of
heaven

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