CLAS104 Quiz: Summary - Quiz1.docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Iliad: folktales, mythos word, speech, story (traditionally passed down orally, essence of myth, traditional e. g. homer, resonant/useful (oedipus, alek. Iliad under pillow: subject: the powerless, content: recurring patterns e. g. the quest jack and the beanstalk. Cinderella: function: to entertain mostly cf. perseus. Interpretation: ancient: to reject or to allegorize, flexible/adaptable eg. oedipus in homer and sophocles, physical allegory e. g. Theagenes of rhegium (opposites in his time more exiles; political situation changed: myth and truth. Reaction: modern, psychological, freud oedipus complex, jung collective unconscious/archetypesconsort note also joseph campbell, anthropological, myth and ritual (j. g. Frazer) esp. fertility: social charter (b. malinowski, structural, c. levi-strauss: basic structure of societies are fundamentally the same, reflect human minds (binary, v. propp: studied russian forktales; earlier than. Strauss; standardized myth e. x. quest, rite of passage, maiden myth: w. burkert: sophisticated & broad structuralist; basic structure (culture change -> details changed, 2000-1450: minoan civilization, feminist (rape e. g. zeus turns to bull, seduce a girl;