CLST 2090 Chapter : 16-Jan-13
Document Summary
Mythos- a story (not necessarily true or false: all cultures create myths, mythmaking came to an end after 1200 bc, when the hittites began creating rational/logical explanations for events. Primitive people think the way children think: max m ller (mueller)-german professor, concluded all ancient myths are about nature and natural phenomenon. Primitive people were constantly in contact with nature: carl jung-same stories appear over again in different cultures (flood story). Conflict-myths are filled with ideas of conflict: freud-myths are a way of revealing deepest sexual desires (castration anxiety/penis envy) Zeus-appears masculine/muscular in all statues and to humans. Order of creation is order of increasing importance. Eros was imagined by the greeks as an adolescent male (about 16 years old) After giving birth to these, world now has a physical setting.
