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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Study Time!

Not as nice as Andrews but in case you stumble on my sight here is what I took down from the review:


October 4th Review Session.

Cortneybury.blogspot.com

Group number 2.3

1.     Know the following from the Elliada:  Hanieuweli and the creative murder
2.     Apolo
3.     The earth mother of all
4.     The Enuma Elish
5.     Heseods Theogony

Collaso :
Page 5: the basket

Page 15: Idiology (Why do Greek men have small butts)

Page 39: the subject matter of goats (the story of eurigory and her father and the story of grapes and what happens when you leave them alone to ferment.  It is the origin of tragedy and a better understanding of Dionysus). 

Page 81: another idology that answers the question of who has more fun making love, the man or the women.  Tiresias said the women and he was wrong, so he was blinded).

Page 94: Ate-know what it means “infatuation” Divine infatuation.

Page 383: The definition of myth.  The precedent behind every act.  Every step you take has been taken before you.  In human affairs, there is no such thing as originality.  Everything we do is an imitation of something that has already been done.  (Defenition of the phrase In Illo Tempre-which means in the beginning, in the dream time, once upon a time)

Page 52: Megans Blog.  Main theme is that we have been constantly declining from one age to the next.  The age of conviviality followed by the age of rape, and then we forget about the gods. 

Page 176:  Colasso telling us how it all came about.  Pelops.  Who was he?

Leda and the Swan-William Butler Yeats.  Zeus took the form of a swan and raped Leda.  If he had not done this, there would be no Trojan war. 

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Kinds of creation stories. 
Who was the mother of the muses? Mnemosyne
What was Percephone doing before she was abducted.
            She was picking the narcissus flowers.
The Cave: suggesting that we are all prisoners.
            This refers to what myth? Fable? Philosophical Allegory?  Plato was responsible for this theory. 
Who was always described as deceitful and beautiful, she was also thought to be a phantom? Helen.
What arrives unexpected and possesses? Dionysus.

What is the root mythological meaning of this word “enthusiasm.”  Entheos which means the god inside you.  God possessed. 

Who sais: One more time Athena, love me as much as you can.  Odeseus is pleading for his divine spirit one last time. 

What always follows abduction?  Metamorphosis. 

Homosexuality was the highest order of eroticism

Which body was born from Uranas dismembered body? Aphrodite

Who was the mother of the Minotaur? Pasiphae.

Sparagmos- means the tearing of the limbs.

Define Anamnesis?  You already know what you need to know.  Simply means recollection.  According to Plato we have already forgotten everything. 

What does the word apocalypse mean?  To lift the veil.

What is eschatology? Study of the end of the world. 

Zeus came in many forms:  he took the shape of a cloud, to seduce Europa he took the shape of a bull, to seduce leda he took the form of a swan, to seduce Danae he took the form of gold.  To seduce Semele he took the form of an Everyday mortal.
What did he show himself to semele, he showed himself as he truly is and she exploded. 


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