[CLST 203] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (47 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 203
• Professor: Graeme Ward

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Primitive, oeal mythos vs civilized logos: story, speech, meaning, word, reasoned inquiry into a topic (i. e mythology, plato appeals to emotions, humour, erotic feelings (cid:494)myth(cid:495) apart from (cid:494)reality(cid:495) The environment, gender, ethics, ethnicity, nationalism i. e why can(cid:495)t the environment defend itself (cid:523)the environment is not considered a plaintiff, does not have rights, european tradition says you need to be alive to have rights) Earth is not a living thing in greco roman tradition, we govern the earth, indigenous tradition says the earth is alive. Modern myth that canada gained its identity through vimy ridhe (nationalism) Myth legend (cid:494)sacred stories(cid:495: distant past folktale fictional, no concrete time, place, secular, has animals talking, can take place at any time, any place. Problems form just prose narratives: content just supernatural beings, just distant past. Where to we cut off distant past, all arbitrary function. How stories depict social relations and religious practices and belief and behavior are different.