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GREEK AND ROMAN MYTH

GREEK AND ROMAN MYTH. Background – Greek Civilization. Minoan (Crete) 2200-1450 BC Mycenean 1450-1100 BC (“good old days”) Dark Ages (no record) 1100-700 BC Homer, Hesiod 800-700 (beg. of writing) Greek Drama 500-400 (height of Gr. Civ.).

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GREEK AND ROMAN MYTH

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  1. GREEKANDROMANMYTH

  2. Background – Greek Civilization • Minoan (Crete) 2200-1450 BC • Mycenean 1450-1100 BC (“good old days”) • Dark Ages (no record) 1100-700 BC • Homer, Hesiod 800-700 (beg. of writing) • Greek Drama 500-400 (height of Gr. Civ.)

  3. Roman Civilization - 200 BC-300 AD Christianity - 300 AD Background -Roman Civilization

  4. Greek Cosmogony/Cosmology

  5. Greek Mythology • Begins Orally • Heavily borrowed from earlier nearby cultures—esp. Sumerian and Egyptian • Separate City-States, Islands, geography leads to fragmentary, overlapping stories • First written in Homer, Hesiod 800-700BC • Most Important Characteristic: HUMANISM • “The Greek Miracle” • “Anthropomorphic”

  6. Greek Creation Stories • Hesiod, “Theogony” • Greek Deity Family Tree (handout)

  7. Botticelli – “Birth of Venus”

  8. The Original Dysfunctional Family – Goya - “Saturn Devouring His Son”

  9. Zeus – The Ultimate Pick-up Artist? Da Vinci, “Leda and the Swan”

  10. “Rape of Europa” - Titian

  11. Greek Gods and Their Human Characteristics • What are the primary attributes/personality traits of the major gods? • How many of these could be seen as human failures/fallible behavior? • Discuss: compare Greek creation story and Greek Gods with their fallible, human characteristics to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Monotheism and notion of God’s perfection • “How does one worship a fallible god?” • “What different attitudes of worship and religious belief might result from such different Deities?”

  12. Rubens - “The Judgment of Paris”

  13. Breughels – “The Fall of Icarus”

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