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| YOungest son of cronus and rhea, king of hte olympian gods, a personificiation of atmospheric phenomena, particularly stomrs an dlightning and the cosmic gurantor of justic, oath keeping, civic order and kingship. As head of the Greek pantheon, he was the ultimate court for boht humans and gods. All other olympians were either his siblings or children, including his sister-wife Hera |
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| Personification of memory, daughter or Ouranos and Gaea. By Zeus the mother of the Muses |
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| The nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, patrons of literature and the fine arts. |
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| Discovered the city of Troy when the rest of the world considered it to be entirely mythical. Founded the field of archaeology. Married a woman named Helen. |
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Linear A is an undecipherable writing system discovered on the island of Crete. Linear A was used in the palaces of the Early Minoan civilization.
Linear B has been mostly deciphered and is an early form of Greek. Used by the Mycenaean's. |
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| The earlist european civilization which was centered on crete and other aegean islands and was characterized by elaborate palace complexes, such as the king minos of knossos. |
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| Designating an unrecorded prehistoric language spoken in Europe and western asia from which an interelated group of languages, including Greek, Latin, French, and English, are descended. |
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| Term describing the first mainland Greek civilization deeply influenced by the older Minoan culture. Mycenaean society produced the large majority of Greek myths, including the Trojan War saga. |
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Paleolithic (40000 BC)
Neolithic (6000 BC)
Bronze (3000 BC)
Iron (1200 BC) |
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1100-800 BC
The obscure period of Greek history following hte collapse of Mycenaean civilizatoin about 1100 BC. It ended with the Greek renaissance in Ionia during the eighth century BC. |
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| Mythology (2 definitions) |
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1) The systematic study of myth
2) A collection of myths attributed to one culture. |
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| Master architect who designed the labyrinth at Knossos for King Minos. When Minos tried to keep him and his son Icarus prisoner on Crete, Daedalus fashioned wings for their escape. |
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| Son of Daedalus who flew from Crete on artificial wings his father had constructed. Ignoring Daedalus' warning, he flew too close to the sun, whose rays meltd the way holding the wings together, causing himto fall to his death. |
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| The maze that Daedalus built for King Minos to house the Minotaur. |
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| Island that held the labyrinth and Minoan civilization. |
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| Dominant Greek city-state during the fifth century BC, center of hte intellectual and artistic developments that created the Historical Golden Age |
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| A monster half human, half bull, produced from Pasiphae's union with the sacred bull of Poseidon, it was confined in the Labyrinth at Knossos and slain by Theseus |
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| Name of a king - or line of kings- who ruled at Knossos on Crete. The son of Zeus and Europa, Minos married Pasiphae whose unnatural union with a bull produced the Minotaur. |
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| Daughter of Helios, sister of Circe, wife of King Minos of Crete, and mother of Ariadne, Phaedra and (by bull) the minotaur |
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| A literary narrative in which presons, places and events are given a symbolic meaning. |
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| Externalist and Internalist Theories of Myth |
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Externalist: Myth a product of the environment
Internalist: Myth is a product of the mind |
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| Greek poet of the late eighth century BC author of the Theogony and Works and days. |
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| The Greek's original Earth mother, a primal divine power coeval with Chaos. After producing Uranus (sky), she mated with him to produce the Titans. |
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| Race of giant gods whom gaea and Uranus begot and whom Zeus overthrew and Imprisoned in tartarus |
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| Literally the birth of the gods |
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| God of love and sexual desire, he was represented as an unbegotten primal force (hesiod) or as the son of Ares and Aphrodite (homer) |
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| The three sons of Gaea and Uranus: Brontes, Steropes, and Arges. Zeus released them from Tartarus, where cronus had confined them, and enlisted their help i overthrowing the titans. In the odyssey, a race of savage, one eyed giants who lived in caves on Sicily. |
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| The dark abyss beneath hades realm where zeus chained the fallen titans and where the wicked suffered torment |
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| A female reproduces without being fertilized by a male |
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| In Hesiod, a yawning chasm, one of four primal entities from which the universe evlolved. In Ovid, it was the primal disorder or dark confusion of matter that was later shaped into an ordered system (cosmos) |
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