CLA 3380 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: List Of Oracular Statements From Delphi, Inachus, Sea Foam
17 Feb 2017
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Myth a traditional tale by which a society encodes and transmits values and information of central importance to both storytellers and audience. Mythos an account delivered by word of mouth (paradox of mythology) Logos a word, expression of thought, speech discourse, conversation, etc. (same^) Sources of myth direct: literature, material culture, folklore and customs; indirect: comparative studies (literature, linguistics), anthropology, sociology. Herodotus often called the father of history . Hieros gamos the sacred marriage of earth and sky that produces these other gods and goddesses; a common theme in classic literature. Castration of ouranos gaia gave cronos a jagged sickle and had him hide to attack. Ouranos; cronos cuts off his balls and they get flung into the sea; balls + sea foam = aphrodite. Birth of the olympians the olympians (as opposed to the titans) come from cronos and. Children of rheia (and cronos) hestia, demeter, hera, zeus, poseidon, hades.
