Exam Review

Calasso
pg. 209-212

• 4 stories that make up quarternity* Thinking- Zeus, Feeling-Dionysus, Sensation- Athena, Intuition-Demeter

• Terms of Space- Zeus=UP, Athena=OUT(polis,goddess of city), Dionysus=DOWN, Demeter= IN
• Persephone(Kore) getting abducted by Hades while picking a narcissis flower, narcissist= obsessed with them self.
• Triple Goddess= Mother, Maiden(daughter), & the crone

pg. 225-226

• Athena came from head of Zeus

pg. 224

• half has to do with mysteries of Ulysses, why Greeks respect Ulysses more than anything?

pg. 336

• How would you define Homeric theology? 

• Supremacy of the invisible
• All that you get is what you see
• When you can no longer see you have nothing(daylight and light)
• Ephigonal asks to look at light one last time "Stop and smell the roses" The Visible

pg. 359

• Why do we suffer?

• so we can take a course in mythology
• wouldnt have anything to sing about (write blues songs)
• sacrifice so we can be happy... thanks Quentin

pg. 383-391

• Precedent behind every action
• invasion of mind and body
• What did Cadmus give to Greece? Necklace

pg. 387

• What conclusions can we draw? 

• life without meaning or life with disaster? YOU BETTER CHOSE DISASTER!
• Cadmus, founder of city of Thebes
• Greatest disaster was flys feet (gift of mind, vowels, & consonants) 
• He gave the Alphabet!

Eliade

• The Eleusinian mysteries
• The Tarboleum (rights & rituals)
• The Dionysus material from Bachae

Great Pan's Dead
WB Yeats: The Second Coming

Student Questions

• What does spiritus mundi means?
• Spirit of World 
• At the marriage of Cadmus & Harmony, who was drawing the chariot?
• Boar & Lion
• What country are nacirema's from? 
• America(USA)
• Which of the three things, important of Eleusian Mysteries was the origin of Theater?
• Things done= drama= dromenon
• Things done, seen, & said
•  What is the study of soul, in mythology?
• Psychology, NOT THE STUDY OF MIND
• At birth(pg. 204), whose beauty was only appreciated by father? 
• Persephone
• What is the origin of our legal/ justice system? 
• Athena story
• acquits Orestes for killing his mother
•  Women's one free night of retaliation is called? 
• Tote Toge (Day of the Dead)
• What animal is associated with Taurboleum?
• Bull -sign of taurus
• What makes something sacred? 
• in class, making the stone sacred
• if you truly believe something is made sacred
• Who is the real hero, according to Sexson? 
• We are all heroic, ME, US all work for answers
• James Joyce novel... modeled on which hero? 
• Odysseus
• According to Irish poet, WB Yeats, in Second Coming, history is to cycle every 2000 years, which comes from visitation of a BLANK who impregnates a BLANK.
• Bird; Woman
• What is the greek image for soul? 
• Butterfly
• Zeus ate a goddes named BLANK, meaning wisdom?
• Metis
• Which word best typifies a space carved out in which sacred rituals are carried out?
• Temenos
• Who is the god of the double door? What does it mean?
• Dionysus (born 2x) of mother's womb(Semele) and father's thigh(Zeus)
• Dithyramb(os) will be part of question
•  Someone heard a divine voice at end of Pagaen world and they said BLANK & initiate religious age
• Great Pan's Dead
• Fundamental difference between gods and heroes? 
• Mortality
• Who has more fun gods or heroes? 
• Heroes- gods envy 
• When do the Furies arrive?
• When you kill a blood relative, Kill you mother
• What is the religious significance of Cupid & Psyche, according to instructor?
• The Psychological development of the feminine
• Which ritual came up multiple times in presentation?
• Australian Rain-making ritual
• What is the name of the girl that the king threw sandal at?
• Charila
• What Greek play, young woman buries brother even though forbidden, shows clash between tradition & state?
• Antigone
• From what term do we get our word Senator?
• Senex
• What is the definition of Archetype?
• Ancient or primordial image which is found universally in Mythology, fairytale, & fantasy
• Which Eleusian mystery pertains to fertility during certain month?
• Maypole - phallic symbolism
• Study hero pattern / 22 point formula(unsure of question) Might ask... Who covers most of 22 points?
• Oedipus- most, Jesus- not so many, Hercales- some
• In this class, what christian ritual did we discuss that had to deal with death and rebirth?
• Baptism
• Why was Demeter putting a baby in the fire?
• To make him immortal
• If you have someone in your family that is a "daddy's girl," Whose classical archetype is she modeling? 
• Athena

That should be the majority of what we talked about in review today. There were a few questions we didn't find that he will most likely put on the test so check blogs for important notes!

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