Mythology

Review List for Mythology FINAL

Notes/Definitions:

Myth Definition (Myth must have: 1) storyline, plot; 2) story must break normal human limits)

Cosmology Myth

Etiological Myth

Eschatological Myth

Succession Myth

Hieros Gamos

Five types of Creation Myths (Ex Nihilo, Creation from Chaos, Creation from Union, Emergence, Earth-Diver)

Monomyth

Archetype

Amathia/Sophia

Freud’s Id-Ego-Super ego

Jung’s Archetype/collective dream

Definition of Epic

Xenia

World Creation Stories

Egyptian (Ra, Ma’at, Shu, Tefnut, Hathor, Nut, Geb, Thoth, Isis, Osiris, Horus, Set, Nephthys, Anubis) [handout and class notes]

Chinese Creation (P’an Ku, Nu-kua, Fu-his, Spirit of Water & Spirit of Fire battle) [handout]

Story of Genesis & Creation of Man (Adam, Eve, Lilith, serpent, God) [handout and class notes]

Greek Gods

Greek Creation (Gaea + Ouranos, Rhea + Cronus, Zeus + Hera; Five Ages of Man; Prometheus, Epimetheus and Pandora Story) [in Hamilton, class notes, and handouts]

Olympian Gods (Greek & Roman Names; planets; symbols; notable stories we covered) [in Hamilton, class notes, and handouts]

Lesser Gods (names, symbols, vocabulary derivations, and/or notable stories we covered) [in Hamilton, class notes, and handouts]

Earth Gods (names, symbols, vocabulary derivations, and/or notable stories we covered) [in Hamilton, class notes, and handouts]

Water Gods (Poesidon and his water world)

Greek Tragedy Terms

Review handout with definitions & structure (catharsis, tragic hero, hubris, actors, masks, playwrights, deus ex machina etc.)

Medea(Euripides; plot, themes, characterization; tragic hero, deus ex machina)

The Bacchae (Euripides; plot, themes, characterization, tragic hero)

Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus; plot, themes, characterization, conflict, applied Greek theater definitions like hero, hubris, harmatia, role of chorus, etc; know Io’s story.) [handout + notes + group notes]

Afterlife & Worship

Eleusinian Mysteries + Demeter /Persephone story [in Hamilton, class notes, and handouts]

Cybele & Attis [class notes, and handouts]

Isis & Osiris [class notes, and handouts]

Hades [handout and notes and book] Know the names on chart and “board game” handout]

Orpheus and Eurydice

Etiological Flower and Love Myths (classnotes and book)

Ceyx and Alcyone

Cupid and Pysche

Baucis and Philemon

Pyramus and Thisbe

Venus and Adonis

Echo and Narcissus

Hyacinth and Apollo

Daphne and Apollo

Hero Unit

Know the quests, monsters, obstacles, etc. See worksheets we filled out.

Jason and the Argonauts and the Quest for the Golden Fleece

Theseus

Perseus

Atalanta

Judgment of Paris

Trojan War Details

Greek vs. Trojan Ids

Odysseus and His 10 Year Journey Home (characters, events)

Fairy Tale Unit

Fairytale Elements

Rapunzel

Cinderella versions

Maiden without Hands

Rumpelstiltskin

Little Red Riding Hood versions

Hansel and Gretel

Little Otik (film)