01:190:207 Midterm: Exam Study Guide 10/18/18
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Not knowing the answer before asking the question. A shared set of ideas and material culture among different cultures in a. Ex: the central italian koine, eastern mediterranean koine. A story that authorizes or endorses the present through the past given reason. The assertion that human beings are the same now as in the ancient world. The recognition that people in the past did not always think or live the way people in the present or in any other time. The belief that categories exist out there independent of language & human beings, sometimes these categories are referred to as natural. Because categories and even mythic figures are constructed by language it is better to try to understand categories and mythic figures as subject to limited change over time rather than imperfect copies of an ideal hero or category. Son of titans kronos & rhea, king of the gods. Son of iapetos, brother of epimetheus(afterthought), and father of.