Classical Mythology 2
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- Pindar
- Greek Lyric Poet rememberd for his "Odes" - Theban
- Homeric Hyms
- a body of poems composed in honor of Olympian dieties, most of which embodies at least 1 myth of the God's
- Theogony
- An account of the origin and genealogy of the Gods
- Hesiod
- Responsible for Olympian organization of Olympian theology and theogony.--most imp for the relationship, b/w Zeus, the olympians and their predecessors
- Odessey
- younger of the 2 surviving ancient greek epic poems-concerns the adventure and ordeals of the Greek warrior odysseus after the fall of Troy as he struggles to return home and restablish himself as king of Ithica
- Illiad
- -wrath of Achilles -record of 10 yr war, also incorporates many myths of the olympian and mycenean heroes its epithet of the gods has been the foundation of literary and artistic representations
- Homer
- name of poet who wrote the Illiad and Odessey..or compiled it
- saga
- (legend) has a preceptive relationship to history
- etiological
- the cause of something, the origin
- folktales
- generic names for character, objectives primarily to entertain, often characters of low social satutes and persecuted in story -most of them have happy endings
- fairytale
- a particular ki9nd of folktale a "short imaginative, traditional tale w/high moral and magical content"
- mythos
- greek for "word"
- Aeschylus
- wrote tragedies such as House of Atreus, myths and sagas, died in 456,
- Sophocles
- wrote tragedies, died in 406, wrote the saga of the family of Oedipus
- Euripides
- wrote tragedies, died in 406, wrote the Bacchae
- Apollonius of Rhodes
- the single most imp source for the saga of the Argonauts
- Herodotus
- born 485, Known as the "father of history",Greek historian whose writings, chiefly concerning the Persian Wars, are the earliest known examples of narrative history.
- Mythographer
- One who records, narrates, or comments on myths, late compilers of hand books of mythology
- Apollodorus
- wrote Bibliotheca composed around 120 ad,
- Pausanias
- Greek geographer and historian who wrote Periegesis of Greece, a valuable source on the topography and history of ancient Greece.
- Plato
- Greek philosopher. A follower of Socrates, he presented his ideas through dramatic dialogues, in the most celebrated of which (The Republic) the interlocutors advocate a utopian society ruled by philosophers trained in Platonic metaphysics. He taught and wrote for much of his life at the Academy, which he founded near Athens in 386.-used philosophical myth as a distinct literary form.
- Vergil
- Roman poet, his depiction of the afterlife combines more traditional mythology development out of Homer with mythical speculations about rebirth and reincarnation found in Philosophers like Plato
- Lucian
- Greek satirist. His two major works, Dialogues of the Gods and Dialogues of the Dead, ridicule Greek philosophy and mythology
- Ovid
- Roman poet known for his explorations of love, especially the Art of Love (c. 1 B.C.) and Metamorphoses (c. A.D. 8).
- Thessaly
- A region of east-central Greece between the Pindus Mountains and the Aegean Sea. Settled before 1000 B.C., it reached the height of its power in the sixth century B.C. but soon declined because of internal conflicts.
- Aristomenes
- the Hero of Messenia from Historical Tales