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| rational analysis of study of stories and myths |
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Major works: Theohony; Works and Days
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| The Mycenaean Age dates from around 1600 BC to 1100 BC, during the Bronze Age. Mycenae is an archaeological site in Greece from which the name Mycenaean Age is derived. |
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| 1150-480 BCE: destruction of mycenean cities, colonialization |
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800-480 BCE: invention of Greek Alphabet
"Age of Tyrants", emergence of the polis |
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480-323 BCE: influenced by roman empire, influenced the foundation of western civilization
death of Alexander the Great |
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Writer of Metemorphoses
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King of the gods and ruler of Mount Olympus. God of sky and thunder.
Parents: cronus and rhea
god of weather, law, kingship; upholds oaths, hospitality relations |
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wife and sister of zeus
goddess of marriage, family, childbirth |
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goddess of agriculture and harvest
sister of zeus
often linked in a cult with her daughter Persephone |
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| Interpretive approaches to myth |
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| ritualist, structuralist, psychoanalytic, sociological |
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god of the sea, water and earthquakes
brother of zeus
trident and conch shell (symbols) |
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goddess of the hunt, virgin goddess
parents: Zeus and Leto |
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god of healing, music, poetry and prophecy
no roman name
beardless, often carrying a lyre of a bow |
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goddess of love and sex
born from the foam of the sea
shown nude with doves and cupid/eros |
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| messenger god, god of travel, commerce, thievery |
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god of metal working and fire
parents is hera ONLY |
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| Rhea, Oceanus, Hyperion, (Coeus, Crius, Lapetus), Cronos, Mnemosyne, (Tethys, Theia, Phyoebe, Themis) |
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