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rational analysis of study of stories and myths |
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Major works: Theohony; Works and Days Uses Greek Names |
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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 Uses Greek Names |
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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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