Quizzz 222

  • Critical thinking

    • Not having the answer before asking the question

  • Textualism

    • Because categories and even mythic figures are constructed by languages, it is better to understand categories and mythic figures a subject to limited change over time rather than imperfect copies of an ideal hero or category

  • Idealism

    • The belief that categories exist “out there” independent of the language and human beings 

    • Sometimes these categories are referred to as “natural”

  • Ethnicity

    • A category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, culture or nation

    • (Stolen directly [more or less] from wikiiii0

  • Allegory

    • A narrative hat conveys hidden meanings through symbols, figures, actions, images, and or/ events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.

  • Apuleius (Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis)

    • ca 124 to 170 CE

    • Born in modern Algeria, but visited Greece, Italy, and Egypt

    • Author of the Metamorphoses (Cupid and Psyche)

  • Nag hammadi

    • Village in modern Egypt, once near a monastery dedicated to  St Pachomus

    • Location of a group of non-canonical of a group of non-cannoical texted buried likely father the use of such texts was condemned in 367CE

  • Aset 

    • Also known  as isisi

    • Attributes: thrones on top of the head

    • A.C. magic, wisdom, fertility

    • associated with Aphrodite and Demeter

  • Heracles 

    • Attribues: Lion skin, club

    • A.C>: strength, spreading culture

    • ASsocieted with phoenician melqart and borrowed by Romann as hercules

  • Argos

    • A greek city state located in central greece famous for its temple of hera

    • Continually occupied science the stone age through the mycenaean to the historical period

    • Extermely powerful in the seventh century BCE but eclipsed by sparta and athens by the sixth century BCE



  • Perseus

    • Son of Jupiter and Danae (possbilye zeus0

    • Slayer of Medusa 

    • Rescued Andromeda from a sea monster and married her

  • Andromeda

    • Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopia, king and queen of Ethiopia

    • Sacrificed to a sea monster because her mother boasted she was more beautiful than the water nymph

    • Rescued by Perseus, who marries her

  • Medusa

    • Gordon, who was killed by persesu 

    • Snales on her turns people into stone

  • Atlas

    • Son of Lapetus

    • Most remote lands were under his rule and the ocean as well

    • He was rich and no one's soil was richer than his

    • He turns into stone

  • Cupid

    • Known as eros in the origin of the world

    • Cupid means dessrire cupid and psyche are a daoblle allegorgory for the union of love and soul asd tehy way to achieve pleasure and lucisis jpooining the cult of isis

    • Has adauther with phycesuce named oit pleaseure

  • Psyche

    • Psyche means soul

    • Psyche sees cupidby means of a lamp

    • Psycehe is drivin by curiosity to know secret thing

    • Rescued by cupid

    • To complete imposssbile task assigned by venus psyche receives help from jupiter

  • Venus

    • Jealous of psyches beauty

    • Venus sends her son, cupid to make opsyce fall in love with and ugly creatuire but cupid falls for psyce 

    • Venus discovers that cupid and psyche are lover so she forces to comnplete impossbile task.

  • Jupiter

    • Has a son named atalas, possibly possibly not. There is no  claim to the authenticity of this sta,tement so  some term of him saying that it is his son

    • He is more responsible for his birth

    • Rich golden shower

    • Eagles when it sees a snakes on o=pen felid showing it livid bosy