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ANCS/RLST 210
Classical Mythology
Professor Timothy Phin
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Classical Mythology
Face to Face
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email: tphin@umbc.edu
Assignments
Class Discussion
2 phases
small groups
class-wide
TO BRING TO CLASS:
2 questions
2 comments
Assignments
7 of them
ALL online
20 minutes
2 chances
Assignments
Blog
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Blog
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Mythmaker
3-4 pages
double-spaced
Any questions?
Beginnings
What is a myth?
Definitions of myth
Myth as story
Types of Myths
Divine myths
Folktales
An example.
Myth as explanation
aitia
Time
Time
Greek Myths
local
Panhellenic
Key words
cosmogony
theogony
anthropogony
genealogy
anthropomorphic
polytheistic
Opening Lines
In the beginning
Hesiod
Theogony
Boeotia
dactylic hexameters
Evangeline, Longfellow
RAGE:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus will was done.
Begin with the clash between Agamemnon-The Greek warlord--and godlike Achilles.
Iliad, Book 1
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Iliad, Book 1
formulae
epithets
Theogony of Hesiod
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