[GRS 200] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (24 pages long!)

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRS 200
• Professor: Laurel Bowman

Document Summary

Greece in the bronze age was inhabited, where a lot of myths were told. Athens, thebes, corinth, sparta: argos (mycenae); was a large vertical plain between the mountains, controlled by three armies, many myths concerning this place in greece. Most people were small town farmers, most trade was via ship. Identified as greek by: spoken language was greek, worshiped zeus, worshiped roughly other 12 olympic gods (some variations, descended from people who fought at troy. Crete in the early bronze age was not greeks. Greek and roman myths have set all of the stories in the bronze age. Myths were continued to be told in the centers of the myths even when they were not inhabited. Can tell if the tale is sacred due to the performance, i. e. a story only being told at the temple of. myth is determined by social function; the only thing that matters is the function the myth has.