CLA204 Lecture 1 Notes What is myth? - mûthos (ancient Greek) – “story”‚ “plot” of a narrative - myth – “a traditional story of collective (social) importance” – character‚ plot‚ temporal and special setting - mûthos (story) + logos (account) = “study of myth”‚ mythology - set in distant past or time so long ago when humans did not exist - mythical place – ie. garden paradise‚ world of the dead‚ etc. Circulation of Myth: oral (Orpheus‚ Homer‚ Hesiod) literary (Ovid‚ Euripides) artistic
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believed in the gods no matter what they called the practice. There are hundreds of gods that the Greeks worshiped but there was primarily twelve: Zeus‚ Hera‚ Poseidon‚ Apollo‚ Aphrodite‚ Artemis‚ Ares‚ Hephaestus‚ Athena‚ Hermes‚ Dionysos‚ and Demeter. That being said there was no universal truth for each god. The stories of each God were different dependent on the town and this story usually made the god or goddess distinct. Each town also had its own primary god‚ for example Athens had Athena
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CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY CLAS C205 (23712) W 6:00-8:40pm Room: CA 235 IUPUI Fall 2014 Martina Dalinghaus‚ Program Director for Classical Studies email: mdalingh@iupui.edu Office: CA 543B; Phone: 278-3645 Office hours: MTR 9-11 am; W 4:30-5:30pm (and by appointment) Secretary (World Languages): Cavanaugh 545‚ 274-0062 Note: Please send all communications outside of office hours via email or Oncourse mail or leave urgent messages with secretary during business hours. COURSE OBJECTIVES This course provides
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translation of Hesiod ’s Works and Days by David Grene. New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1998. Theogony‚ Works and Days‚ Shield. Translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press‚ 2004. Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns. Translated by Daryl Hine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 2005.
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A New Construction of Masculinity Boys and young men learn early on that being a real man means you have to put on this tough guy persona. This persona’s manifestation are hyper-masculinity or machismo‚ independence‚ isolation‚ territorialism‚ inability to show emotions‚ inability to initiate emotional ties with other men‚ inability to recognize their need for community and sharing (Heath‚ 2003). In contrast with the construct of masculinity in classical Greek literatures where male-male relationships
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Mythology the Past and Present Nike is the winged goddess of victory according to Greek mythology. She sat at the side of Zeus‚ the ruler of the Olympic pantheon‚ in Olympus. A mystical presence‚ symbolizing victorious encounters‚ Nike presided over history’s earliest battlefields. A Greek would say‚ "When we go to battle and win‚ we say it is Nike." Synonymous with honored conquest‚ Nike is the twentieth century footwear that lifts the world’s greatest athletes to new levels of mastery and achievement
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king of the underworld. He was rarely seen outside of the underworld. The only thing that he could hear were the voices of the people calling his name (Šimon Hades). Demeter was another one of the first six she was Zeus and Heras sister. She was the Goddess of earth and harvest. She showed mankind corn and farming techniques (Šimon Demeter). Zeus’s last sibling was Hestia she was the Goddess of Hearth and domestic affair. She was also known as the Goddess of the sacrificial flame. She was always got
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In chapter 2 of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology two Gods were introduced: Demeter and Dionysus. Although those two Gods were different‚ they also had numerous similarities. For example‚ both are correlated with rebirth and revival. Demeter and her daughter Persephone are in a constant cycle of death due to plants dying off in the winter and regrowing in the summer. Every winter Persephone would be taken by Hades but “she [rose] from the dead every spring” (Hamilton 61). Dionysus was also coordinated with
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you reap joy (Ransom).” This quote symbolizes Demeter’s life as goddess of the harvest. Demeter provided a great deal to Greek mythology through her anger and compassion of being a caring mother. Her origins‚ myths about her life‚ as well as symbols and representations of her‚ all make up Demeter’s reputation. One important part of this Greek goddess is her interesting beginnings. All of the gods and goddesses are all in some way related to
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ARTEMIS was the great Olympian goddess of hunting‚ wilderness and wild animals. She was also a goddess of childbirth‚ and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage. Her twin brother Apollon was similarly the protector of the boy child. Together the two gods were also bringers of sudden death and disease--Artemis targetted women and girls‚ and Apollon men and boys. In ancient art Artemis was usually depicted as a girl dressed in a short knee-length chiton and equipped with a hunting
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