The Cultural Background of Greek Myth. Mythos Legend, saga Folktale Truth: literal, metaphorical, metaphysical Etiology Collective unconscious Archetype.

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The Cultural Background of Greek Myth

Mythos Legend, saga Folktale Truth: literal, metaphorical, metaphysical Etiology Collective unconscious Archetype Modern Myths? What is Myth?

Primary Sources: works produced within a culture: art and architecture literature and written records of other sorts (business lists etc.) Secondary Sources: Commentary by modern authors on the ancient cultures: textbooks and other modern writings Internet Resources: can be primary sources (if they reproduce texts or images from the original culture) or secondary sources (if they are modern commentary) Sources

First settlers: c. 50,000 BCE Agriculture develops: c BCE Bronze appears: c BCE Prehistoric Greece Abbreviations: BCE= Before the common era CE= common era c. = circa (about)

Greece in the Mediterranean

The Greek Environment

The Polis: City Walls (Troy)

Polis and Community Shared Government Shared laws Shared religious festivals Shared myths

Agriculture

Family Groups

Material Culture Transportation

Men’s Social Roles Social Roles varied from society to society; some widespread phenomena: Farming work or overseeing farming work on one’s own land Service in the military Participation in government to the extent allowed by the state’s constitution Participation in rituals of one’s state Education of one’s children

Women’s Social Roles To marry and bear citizen children To care for the household resources To spin and weave To participate in the state’s religious rituals

Sexuality Sexuality was not a matter of the partner’s gender (male vs. female) but concerned active vs. passive roles. Active roles were appropriate for grown men, whether the partner was male or female Passive roles were appropriate for women and to some extent, teenaged men, but not for adult males How far did the reality match the ideal? Public vs. private? Hard to say …

Myths usually try to explain matters physical, emotional, and spiritual not only literally and realistically but figuratively and metaphorically as well. Morford and Lenardon 6 Harpy: Hellenistic Earring Etiology

“Facts” change in all the sciences... Myth in a sense is the highest reality. Morford and Lenardon, pp. 4-5

A myth makes a valid statement about the origins of the world, of society, and of the institutions about the gods and their relationships with mortals; in short, about everything on which humans’ existence depends.” (Fritz Graf) Europa and the Bull, courtesy VRoma

A Greek myth is a tale rooted in Greek culture that recounts a sequence of events chosen by the maker of the tale to accommodate his own medium and objectives and to achieve a particular effect in his audience.” (F. Brown and W. Tyrell) Odysseus and the Sirens, VRoma

People believed in myths for a long time, according to programs that, to be sure, varied enormously from one era to another. It is normal for people to believe in the works of the imagination.” (Paul Veyne) Hermes presents the infant Dionysus; courtesy Christus Rex

Finis Quotes on myth selected by Staci Holt