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Myth
narrative psychologically important to community/society/culture fictitious story, element of ancient religious belief, primitive science, cautionary moral teaching tale
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Etiology
myth explaining origins
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Pandora
women open box (origin of bad things, shows hubris/religious beliefs)
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Epimetheus
god of after sight, cursed with pandora for going against Zeus
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Prometheus
god of foresight, punished for stealing fire from Zeus
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Zeus
king of gods, ruler of sky
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Why are there so many different versions of the same myth?
Many reasons and oral passage leads to different myths
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Lore
in myth the nuts and bolts of the story
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Ideology
in myth the message of the story
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Cronos(name)
Saturn
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Rhea (name)
Rhea
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Uranus (name)
Uranua
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Zeus(name)
Jupiter
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Hera(name)
Juno
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Poseidon(name)
Neptune
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Demeter(name)
Ceres
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Hestia(name)
Vesta
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Hades(name)
Pluto/Dis
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Apollo(name)
Apollo
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Artemis(name)
Diana
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Hermes(name)
Mercury
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Athena(name)
Minerva
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Ares(name)
Mars
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Hephaestus(name)
Vulcan
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Aphrodite(name)
Venus
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Dionysus(name)
Liber
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Cronos
son of Gaea and Uranus, overthrows father (first king of new world)
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Rhea
wife of Cronus
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Uranus
sky titan, husband/son of Gaea (first ruling couple)
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Zeus
king of gods/law/weather, lightning/eagle/septre, overthrew father, 1st gen Olympian
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Hera
Zeus' wife, marriage/family, crown/peacock, 1st gen Olympian
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Poseidon
seas/earthquakes, dolphins/horses/tridents, 1st gen Olympian
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Demeter
harvest/fertility, grain, 1st gen Olympian
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Hestia
hearth, not portrayed, 1st gen Olympian
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Hades
underworld, cap of invisibility, not Olympian 1st gen
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Apollo
music/healing/sun/prophecy, lyre/bow and arrow/snake/scroll/beardless, 2nd gen Olympian (child of Zeus and Leto)
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Artemis
hunting/wild animals, bow/short hunting dress/animals, 2nd gen Olympian (child of Zeus and Leto)
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Hermes
travel/trade/thievery/messenger, cadusus/travel hat/winged, 2nd gen Olympian (child of Zeus and maiai)
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Athena
crafts/wisdom/warfare clever, owl/armor/spear/ageis, 2nd gen Olympian (child of Zeus and metis)
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Ares
warfare, 2nd gen Olympian (child of zeus and hera)
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Hephaestus
blacksmith/technology, hammer/limp, 2nd gen Olympian (child of zeus and hera)
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Aphrodite
love/sex, dove/eros and cupid, 2nd gen Olympian (uranus' castration)
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Dionysus
wine/fertility/theatre/ecstasy, maenads/pinecones/wine/leopard/satyr, 2nd gen Olympian kinda (child of zeus and Semele)
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Anthropomorphic
human formed
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Omniscient
all knowing
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Omnipotent
all powerful
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Athens
Origins of Greek Theatre
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Tragedy
goat song\=tragoidos
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Comedy
komoidos\=party song
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City Dionysia
religious festival in late March, choral dance/procession/dithyramb/comedy competition
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Outdoor theaters
mainly hillside, mock navel battles, orchestra (dancing area)
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Chorus
help with 3 actor rule, sang/dance, unpaid, 12-15
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Choregos
any wealthy Athenian citizen who paid the costs of theatrical productions at festivals
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Koryphaeus
The conductor or leader of the chorus of a drama
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Parodos
introduction song
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Stasimon
choral interlude
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Strophe
first section of choral ode
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Antistrophe
second section of choral ode
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Three actor rule
only three speakers on stage
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Costumes and masks
padded suits and large masks (help projection)
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Agon
debate in long speech then short lines
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Rhesis
long speech
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Stichomythia
short lines
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Mechane
crane entrance (normally god)
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Ekkyklema
wheeled platform to see what's happening inside
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Orchestra
flat dancing area
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Peripeteia
reversal of fortune
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Anagnorisis
recognition
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Catharsis
cleansing of negative emotions
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Aeschylus
tragedies (7 extent), acted in plays, veteran of marathon
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Sophocles
7 extant plays
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Euripides
19 extant plays, surly and convivial (not popular in life)
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Aristophanes
old comedy, 11 extant, political themes made fictional (contemporary characters)
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Oedipus
king of thebes
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Jocasta
Queen of thebes, wife/mother of oedipus
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Creon
Jocasta's brother, accuses oedipus
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Tiresias
blind prophet
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Laius
oedipus' father, raped Chyripppus and brought sphyinx curse, previous king before son killed him
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The Shepherd
reveals identity, one to give Oedipus to messanger
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Role of Fate in life
cannot escape fate
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"Nothing in excess"
Delphic saying
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"Know thyself"
Delphic saying
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Does "Western Civilization" actually exist?
no, relative and changing
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The necessity of understanding our own identity and questioning personal myths
knowing orgins important, lack of understanding leads to errors
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Arnold vs. Tyler, meaning of culture
Hierarchical vs set of beliefs (more neutral)
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Aristotle
complex plot reversial and recognition simultaneously
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Freud
uses myth to justify attraction to mother, Oedipus complex
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Chrysippus
raped by Laius, brought curse
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Thebes
Land of Oedipus' birth/inheritance
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Corinth
Where Oedipus grew up, believed land of parents
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Polybus
king of Corinth, Oedipus' adopted father
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Merope
queen of Corinth, Oedipus' adopted father
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Oida
I know (ancient grief)
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Delphi
Place of oracle, where Oedipus learns fate
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Oracle
prophesies Oedipus will marry mother and kill father
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Sphinx
Sphinx toments thebes for Laius' crime, defeated by Oedipus
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Tyrant (tyrannos)
foreign leader
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Pollution/Miasma
pollution ritually cleaned
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Plague/pandemic
physical depiction of miasma
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Murder mystery
Laius' murder causes plague