CM Lecture Beginnings Wt2015

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BeginningsANCS/RLST 210Classical Mythology

Professor Timothy Phin


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Welcome!

Classical Mythology

Face to Face

Tuesdays from 1:00-4:10

Thursdays from 1:00-4:10

Sherman Hall 003


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Welcome!

Professor Tim Phin

Ofce: PAHB 442

Ofce Hours: TTh from 11:00AM-12:50PM

email: [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]


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Assignments Class Discussion

2 phases

small groups

class-wide

30% of the grade

TO BRING TO CLASS:

2 questions

2 comments


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Assignments

Quizzes (30% of the grade)

7 of them

ALL online

20 minutes

2 chances

READ THE QUIZ GUIDE


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Assignments

Blog

20% of the grade

Divided into groups

3 posts (2 ancient, 1 modern)


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Assignments Blog

What does ancient mean?

The object must have come intoexistence prior to 500 AD/CE.

What about modern?

The object must have come intoexistence after 1500 AD/CE.More modern is better (20thcentury), and contemporary(21st century) is best.


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Assignments Mythmaker

20% of the grade

You write you own myth. The mythmust have some basis in thestories and topics wevediscussed in class, but it isotherwise your own. Let yourcreativity thrive.

3-4 pages

12 pt, reasonably font

double-spaced


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DUE DATES (some) Quiz 1 - 1/8 @ 11:59 PM

Quiz 2 - 1/8 @ 11:59 PM

Quiz 3 - 1/10 @ 11:59 PM

Blog 1 - 1/10 @ 11:59 PM

Quiz 4 - 1/13 @ 12:00 PM

Blog 2 - 1/14 @ 11:59 PM


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Any questions?


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Beginnings


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What is a myth?


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Denitions of myth

mythos - authoritative speech, story, plot

traditional story with collective importance


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Myth as story

Stories have: beginnings, middles, and ends.

Stories have: characters.

Zeus is NOT a myth. Zeus is a character in amyth.


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Types of Myths

Divine myths

Legends (also known as sagas)

Folktales


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Religion and Myth

Myths are traditional stories.

Religion is belief and the course of action thatfollows from belief.


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Religion and Myth

An example.

The Greeks believed that Zeus caused the rainto fall.

Therefore, they sacriced animals in times ofdrought to persuade him to bring rain.


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Myth as explanation

aitia

etiological tale - explains the cause of something


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Time

Early/Middle Bronze Age (3000-1600 BCE)

origin of the Greeks; Indo-Europeans; Minoans

The Late Bronze Age (1600-1150 BCE)

Mycenaean Age; Linear B

The Dark Age (1150-800 BCE)


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Time

The Archaic Period (800-480 BCE)

The Classical Period (480-323 BCE)

The Hellenistic Period (323-30 BCE)


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Greek Myths

local

Panhellenic


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Key words cosmogony

theogony

anthropogony

genealogy

anthropomorphic

polytheistic


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Opening Lines

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is calledIlvatar; and he made rst the Ainur, the Holy

Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, andthey were with him before aught else was made.And he spoke to them, propounding to themthemes of music; and they sang before him, and

he was glad.

The Silmarillion , by JRR Tolkien (1977)


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Hesiod

Theogony 8th c./7th c. BCE

Boeotia

dactylic hexameters


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Evangeline, Longfellow

THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pinesand the hemlocks,

Bearded with moss, and in garments green,

indistinct in the twilight


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Iliad , Book 1

RAGE:

Sing, Goddess, Achilles rage,Black and murderous, that cost the GreeksIncalculable pain, pitched countless souls

Of heroes into Hades dark,

And left their bodies to rot as feastsFor dogs and birds, as Zeus will was done.Begin with the clash between Agamemnon--The Greek warlord--and godlike Achilles.


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More Key Words

formulae

epithets


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Theogony of Hesiod

From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing,who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon,

and dance on soft feet about the deep-bluespring and the altar of the almighty son ofCronos, and, when they have washed their

tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse'sSpring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovelydances upon highest Helicon and move with

vigorous feet.


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Creation and Succession In the beginningChaos, Gaia

The children of GaiaOuranos, Titans (Kronos,

Rhea, etc.)

The children of RheaZeus, Hera, Hades,Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia

Kronos overthrows Ouranos.

Zeus overthrows Kronos.


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Announcements

NO Face to Face session on JANUARY 8.

See QUIZ GUIDE and SYLLABUS for the weeksassignments.

Readings this week: rst four chapters of

Exploring Greek Myth & selections from the rstand second chapters of Gods, Heroes, andMonsters

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