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Mythology Midterm Correct Answers 2024/2025 Update
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Mythology Midterm Correct Answers2024/2025 Update
What are Myths? ANS✔✔ Stories primarily concerned with the gods and mankind' s relationship with
them.
How are Legends and Sagas different that myths? ANS✔✔ They are rooted in history (even if they are
fantastical)
What are Folktales? ANS✔✔ Like legends, but purpose is to entertain
What are fairytales? ANS✔✔ Stories with moral content and are aimed at the young
True Myth ANS✔✔ Primarily concerned with the gods, religion and the supernatural
Themes for True Myth ANS✔✔ Creation, the relationship between gods and humans, the afterlife, and
spiritual concerns
Dates for Myths ANS✔✔ Most myths took place in "the distant past", but have no actual dates
Etiological Myths ANS✔✔ Stories that attempt to explain the origin or the cause of certain phenomena
Ex: Helios and the Chariot of the Sun
"Myths are metaphors for natural phenomena" ANS✔✔ Max Muller
, The Oedipus Complex ANS✔✔ The theory that boys are attracted to their mothers, sexually, because of
the Oedipus story. Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung ANS✔✔ The Collective Unconscious:
Myths that contain archetype images that are universal to all humans (anima/animus)
Main Sources for Mythological Information ANS✔✔ Homer-The Iliad
Hesiod- The Theogony
5th Century Playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Herodotus' Histories- Persian War
Plato
Arthur Evans ANS✔✔ Excavator of Knossos
Cyclopean Masonry ANS✔✔ Comes from the idea that there were stones and artifacts that were so
large that only Cyclops could lift it
Sources ANS✔✔ Main Source- Hesiod's Theogony
Inspired by the Muses, daughters of Memory
The Creation Story ANS✔✔ Chaos->Gaia->Tartarus->Eros
Chaos->Erebus and Night
Night and Erebus-> Aether and Day
Gaia ANS✔✔ Mother Earth
Bore Uranus, her equal, than they had Ocean, the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hecatochires (100 arms,
50 heads)
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