[CLASS 2604] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (54 pages long)
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To theos neutral: city can"t do anything since odysseus left and penelope goes to ithaca to try to get. Mythos (muthos) something said (and assumably understood) Logy (logia) also means speaking (more logical whereas mythos is mysterious: also came to mean science. Ex. rains basic translation huei (to urinate) More interesting to ancient greek than nature. Distinguishes humans from nature, wild animals, and other entities. Philosophoi (both male and female) such as gods: philos to love something, sophia art/culture a skill. If you love this skill, it"s a philosophy: without observation of a phenomena, there is no sophia, therefore sophia is based on human senses and on direct human experience. Nomos vs. cultura: wolf is nature, dog is culture, horses are cultural animals too. Myth is closely associated with religion: religion is the oldest myth (religion is older since cavemen, had rituals some people didn"t know why invented stories to explain rituals, myth is secondary to religious action.
