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Classical Mythology Terms
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Undergraduate 2
02/09/2009

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Parthenogenesis
Definition
literally translates to virgin birth.
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Syncretism
Definition
Merging of other beliefs and belief systems into one systematic belief like how the Romans adopted the Greek Gods.
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Sophrosune
Definition
moderation and self-control; soundness of mind and the harmonia of the soul.
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Aetiological
Definition
why something is like in Greek stories how they try to explain things like fire and where it came from and why.
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Homeridal
Definition
model themselves after Homer
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Theogony
Definition
Birth of the Gods
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Athlos
Definition
contest
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Syncretism
Definition
Merging of other beliefs and belief systems into one systematic belief like how the Romans adopted the Greek Gods.
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Didactic poem
Definition
teaches something
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Megaron
Definition
great hall
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Epimeletai
Definition
supervisors of the mysteries
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Erastes
Definition
older male lover of young boys in rite of passage
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Apotropaic
Definition
terrifying and turns you away from it.
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Thesmophoria
Definition
fertility festival for fertile crops.
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Michael Ventris
Definition
WW2 code breaker he broke Linear B and showed it was Greek
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Anthropomorphism
Definition
modeled after humans
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Eris
Definition
strife which is good and makes men work too much eris is a bad and causes men to fight
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Kykeon
Definition
symbolic barley drink could have been hallucinogenic
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Didactic Poem
Definition
Teaches something
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Epopteia
Definition
advanced state of understanding
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Michael Ventris
Definition

WW2 code breaker he broke Linear B and showed it was Greek

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Hierophantes
Definition
priests translation is literally revealers of sacred things.
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Hiera
Definition
sacred things
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Minotaur
Definition
Bull of Minos
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Mystagogos
Definition
sponsors of the initiates
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Eromenos
Definition
“the one who is loved” aka the boy who is taken into this two month rite of passage with the erastes.
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Anthropomorphism
Definition
modeled after humans
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Phallocentric

Definition
masculine centered and influenced
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Eros
Definition
mischievious god of love eventually cupid.
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Phallocentric
Definition
masculine centered and influenced
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Cosmogony
Definition
movement from chaos to order. Birth of cosmos
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Mnemosyne
Definition
Goddess of memory; mother of the muses
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Mystae
Definition
initiates to the Eleusinian mysteries
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Psychopompos
Definition
Hermes role of taking souls to the underworld.
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Elotheia
Definition
Goddess of childbirth
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Promanteia
Definition
getting ahead of line at the oracle. It was a huge deal.
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Chryselephantine
Definition
made of gold and ivory
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Minotaur
Definition
Bull of Minos
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Gymnasium
Definition
place for naked people.
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Teletai
Definition
the rites Eleusinian mysteries
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Epinician odes
Definition
odes said upon a victory
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Erotes
Definition
winged gods of love
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Madus
Definition
cunning MacGyver like. Trickery coming from the feminine
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Mnemosyne
Definition
Goddess of memory; mother of the muses
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Chthonic
Definition
earth based
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Hybris
Definition
excessive pride, veering towards arrogance
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Kakos
Definition
bad, evil
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Katharsis
Definition
purification, a spiritual cleansing, often experienced by watching Greek tragedy
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Aetiological
Definition
why something is; like in Greek stories how they try to explain things like fire and where it came from and why.
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Athlon
Definition
prize
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Paredos
Definition
supervisor of the Eleusinian mysteries
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Hellen
Definition
the mythological patriarch of the Hellenes; he was a man not a girl
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