The view that myths are a product of the environment
What are Externalist Theories?
100
A psychological theory that posits a link between the human psyche and the creation of myth, particularly the function of the unconscious in determining human behaviour and beliefs.
What is Freudian theory?
100
The home of the dead.
What is Hades?
100
The sun and the moon.
What are Helios and Selene?
100
The age regarded as a paradis that men inhabited before women were created.
What is the Age of Gold?
200
The view that myths are a product of the mind.
What are Internalist Theories?
200
A theory that not only certain behaviors, but certain situations and actions, such as journeys, encounters with monsters, struggles with unseen assailants--were universal in both dreams and myths.
What is Jung's archetypal theory?
200
the prison for fallen Titans and the souls of notorious sinners.
What is Tartarus?
200
The yawning chasm, abyss or gaping void that Hesiod regarded as the original mate of Gaea.
What is chaos/Chaos?
200
Age chareacterized by extreme opposites; people tak a full hundred years to mature but only live a short time afterward.
What is the Age of Silver?
300
First comprehensive myth theory which holds that myth is essentially a reaction to the power of physical nature.
What is a nature myth?
300
A theory that views myth through the lens of the mind's binary organization.
What is structuralism?
300
The clouds above the vault of heaven, where the gods supposedly lived.
What is Olympus?
300
An account of the universe's physical origin and organization.
What is cosmogony?
300
Aggressive age with men created by Zeus alone, purportedly from ash trees.
What is the Age of Bronze?
400
A theory that associates myth with religious or quasi religious ceremonies that were characterized by a presribed series of actions and accompanied by the repitition of traditional phrases.
What is ritual theory?
400
A theory that examines the narrative structure of myths and the focalization, or point of view, of the narrative.
What is narratology?
400
THe watery waste that surrounds the physical earth.
What is the River of Ocean?
400
A statement about the universe's nature and purpose.
What is cosmology?
400
Age of great mortal achievement, celebrated in Homeric Epics.
What is Age of Heroes?
500
A theory that myths are narratives that supply the rationale for some ritual or custom, such as initiation rites, and function to maintain stability and communal order.
What is charter theory?
500
A theoretical school that has focused on re-emphasizing components of myth that have been previously neglected.
What is feminist theory?
500
Conception of the earth as a massive disk surrounded by a watery waste, with the physical heavens overhead like an inverted bowl, the gods in the clouds above, and the dead in a subterranean cavern below.
What is the Three-Story Universe?
500
Literally, "Birth of the Gods."
What is The Theogony?
500
Final age of man, where culture has degenerated and morals expect Zeus to end the world.