CLA219H1 Midterm: Terms and Proper Names for the Midterm
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Simulate union to promote fertility: these are songs of praise , often performed before the recitation of epic, e. g. The hymn to demeter, which is attributed to homer (as are most, if not all, though doubtful. Actium (battle of) vetus in greece hieros gamos hymn. Invective poetry lays blame; it is a poem of attack and denigrates the subject: usually women are the subject, e. g. The hymn to demeter is an example misogyny: hatred of women myth to be in its present form nomena teach, a sacred narrative usually etiological (explanatory) either of the world, or how humankind came. Midterm prep: a myth can be told several different ways, with different details. They have very basic skeletons and the details vary ab ovo: literally meaning from the egg , refers to telling a story from the very start, derivative of helen"s birth from the egg.