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29 Cards in this Set
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Myth (or Mythos) literally means)__________
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story
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Name the three functions of mythology
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1)religious significance
2)social significance 3)religious-social function |
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Explain religious significance
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-SACRED MYTHS
-told of the creation of the world -gods and their qualities -relationships between humans and gods -provided common belief system -explained humans place in the world |
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Explain social significance
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-HEROIC MYTHS
-explained history of a culture -heros and heroines of the past -social institutions -relationships between people -common framework for social interaction -ethical matters explained |
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Explain religious-social function
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-provided social glue for communities (holidays and festivals)
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______ provided a context in which arts and crafts and performances celebrating religious beliefs
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myths
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________predates written texts of myths
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oral tradition
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Myths began to be written in the _______century BCE by ______
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8th, Homer
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Homer is most famous for writing the __________ and the _____________
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Illiad, Odyssey
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Hesiod wrote ___________ and ______________
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Theogony and Works and Days
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Philosophy emerges around _______BCE
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6th century
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A God-centered world-view is called a _______________ world-view
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Theo-centric
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The belief in many gods is called_______
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polytheism
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the belief in one god is called__________
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monotheism
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the belief in the existence of a god is called _____________
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theism
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the belief in a divine being of some kind (a deity of some sort-even less specific than monotheism/theism) is called______________
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deism
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deities that have human form are called _________________ deities
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anthropomorphic
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Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions hold that god is __________, _________ and ____________
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Omnipotent
Omniscient all-good |
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judeo-christian-islamic traditions are ________ traditions
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monotheistic
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Name the four qualities of ancient Greek Gods
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-immortal
-control specific domains -possess specific abilities and affinities -are not always "good" |
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"philos" means_______
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to love
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"sophos" means_______
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wisdom
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________is the one who utilized the word "philosophy" in its current sense
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Plato
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"Laconic" means_______
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an answer that is short and to the point, especially after a long question
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______ was the king of gods and godesses
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Zeus
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the "orderly state of all" is known as ______
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cosmos
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an account of how the universe came to be is called _______
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cosmogony
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What is the "appearance/reality distinction"?
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The distinction between how something appears to be and how it really is.
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"bios" means_________
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life
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