CLAS 160D2 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deinotherium, Greek Mythology, James George Frazer
14 Sep 2016
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Mythos means word, speech or story in ancient greek. Myths concerned with gods and humankinds relationships with them. True myth concerned with gods religion and the supernatural. Mythology and religion, temple of zeus at olympia, parthenon at athens, temple of apollo at corinth, temple of artemis at ephesus. Temple of zeus: 12 labors of heracles, holds up the world. Etiological myths: explain the origin of a phenomenon. Allegorical myths rationalize the world around us, allegory of the seasons with. Anima/animus: ideal person that we think of. James frazer and malinowski, structuralists: tools to understanding ritualistic behaviors. Structuralism pioneered by claude levi strauss, sees myths as a mode of communication. Sources: iliad, the odyssey, the theogony, euripides (bacchae), vergil poet of the aeneid, ovid a lot of our mythology comes from him, Neolithic figurines show women accentuating the parts of the body (picture) Most heroes stories are set in the bronze age. The palace of minos at knossos (picture)
