CLA 2323 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Zeus, Greek Mythology, Odysseus
12 Oct 2018
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CLA 2323
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
Has a daughter Persepherone
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Friendly Character -
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Demeter - Goddess of Harvest and Wheat, Barley
Dionysus - god of wine, grapes
Gifted to Athens - Olive tree
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Athena - wisdom, Technologies
Resources
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Specifically in agricultural resources4e333333
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Very important on trades and exports
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Where do they overlap?
Not just spoilt personalities
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Patrons
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What they meant to the ancient Greece?
Ancient Greece:
In the east, modern day Turkey of ancient Greece
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And close to italy and Aisa Minor
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Mountains are islands in the wateer
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Eastern coasts of Turkey were Greek
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Always continuity between Aisa Minor and Greece
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Triton
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Aprodite
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Castor and
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More gods related to sea
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God of Sea - Poseidon
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Only about 20% of the land is farmable
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Another 10% in
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Not much of the land is fertile to grow crops
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Food was always questionable
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Gods that could help with the condition of the soil were celebrated
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Athena popular amongst the countryside folk
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Barley was easy to grow
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Fruit trees included promegrante
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Meat was expensive
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Beans
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Mount olympus - Home of the Gods
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Many individual gods were associated with each mountain
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Nymphs - young, semi-devine woman that embody the purity of the mountain, and trees
and forests
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Used to build statues, temples
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Compressed limestone geologically - MARBLE
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Zeus born in a cave
Cave is the intimate approach to connect to gods
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Greeks believed the caves lining the peninsula was the entrance to the
underworld
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Cave formation of limestone geologically
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Mountains contributed a lot to Greek culture due to LIMESTONE
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Very little surface water
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- Jagged peninsula going into the mediterrean
Lecture 1 - The Land of Greece
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
5:17 PM
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Scortching heat - most plants don't survive
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Only trees that survive - pears, and pomegranate, date, sesame
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Winter in Greece is like mid April in Ottawa
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Greeks sowed the land with grains mid-october
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Plants grew in winter
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Farming calender was different
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Grain harvest was May
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West side got more rainfall than east side
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These situations impacted their religious beliefs and civilizations
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Plant the crops and then pray to Zeus
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Necessity for life
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Greeks saw religion as practical measure
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The climate of Greece - summer is the barren season
It was all taken seriously
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Religion was part of life
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A person was accused of questioning the existence of Gods was executed
Associated with Demeter
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Pigs - didn't need a lot of room, and they ate anything
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Associated with Appolo
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Bulls - expensive
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Cattle
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Goats
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Sheep
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Ox
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Domesticated animals helped people
They were sacrificed to the deities and associated with them.
Wild animals were never sacrificed to the deities - ALWAYS ONLY DOMESTICATED animals
sacrificed.
Agean sea
Greek sea - connected to Italy
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Martin Bernal believes that understanding Ancient Greece lies not in West Asia but in
AFRICA - specially Egypt
Widely held misconception
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A socially powerful traditional story
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A myth is a narrative, a set of events structured into a sequence.
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Story - lest problematic
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Stories were transmitted from teller to teller, often from generation to
generation
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A story whose origin has been forgotten
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Tradition
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Narratives which occupy a highly significant position within the societies
that retell them
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Social power
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3 elements
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What is a myth?
Hellenic- Greek
Hellenistic - to designate the period from the death of the Alexander the Great to the Battle of
Actium ( 323BC to 31 BC)
Archaic period - 700-500BC
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Document Summary
Poseidon a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. Has all of the zeus"s strengths but not zeus"s ethics i. Was only the god of rivers and sea, but when they saw the ocean he became the god of the sea j. Poseidon and athena interactions are all rivalry i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. Poseidon cannot kill odysseus because athena helped him. k. l. 1) and his daughters - nereids(mermaids of the sea), ii. iii. iv. v. Artemis a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. Associated with owls as they were thought to be wise i. Might mean city of athena n. o. p. q. Fools around with ares, poseidon, hermes, dionysus a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. i. ii. Cla2323a page 4 a. b. c. d. e. f. Hephaestus a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. m. n.
