CLT-3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heinrich Schliemann, Etiology, Epic Cycle
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Introduction to the olympian gods and homeric epic. Panhellenic: means that it affects all greeks: myths that were common to greeks from across the greek world. Local: myths that were distinctive to a particular region or city. The case of athena: this is an example of a panhellenic myth, cunning, cleverness . Internal includes: freudian theory: they try to get to the subconscious impulses that cause a myth, jung and archetypal myth: he thought that myths consist of original form or patterns that were copies of another. Gods fill into the spots for archetypal families that people need: structuralism and binary opposites: human psyche likes to categorize the world in opposite. Includes natural and cultural such as human vs. god or male vs. female: narratology: how people like to think about things and how they like to tell their story. They have a series of events, a movement of life.
