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Aegis
goatskin worn by Athena to frighten enemies
Anthropomorphism
giving human traits to gods/other nonhumans
Apotropaic
‘warding off evil
Caduceus
twin-snake staff of Hermes
Cosmogony
story of the creation of the world
Creation
birthing vs. crafting analogy
Eponymous ancestor
the origin of a name
Hellenes in Greek
Etiological story
explains how something came to be
Five ages of man
from gold to iron
Flood stories
a tale type exemplified in Gilgamesh
Folk tale
stories about ordinary people
Herm
pillars with heads of Hermes plus genitals
Hospitality/xenia
obligations of courteous treatment between guests and hosts
Justice
dikê
Legends
about human heroes
Lyre
invented by Hermes
Myth
a traditional story with collective importance
Pan pipes
from Syrinx
Succession myth
a tale type exemplified in Hesiod’s Theogony
Syncretism
“blending
Sumerian Inanna = Aphrodite
Theogony
story of the creation of the gods
Titanomachy
battle between the Titans and the Olympian gods