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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]
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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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