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, ritual - ANSWER traditional pattern of action
folktale - ANSWER traditional tale, story whose actors are ordinary people or animals.
used to justify customary patterns of behavior
legend - ANSWER "things that must be read" stories of famous early men and women
myth - ANSWER traditional tales about gods and heroes which serve various functions
within society, from providing entertainment ... to encoding the meaning of life.
religion - ANSWER belief and the course of action that follows, in a set of codes or
deity(ies)
Apollonius of Rhodes wrote - ANSWER the Argonautica - quest for the golden fleece
Homer wrote - ANSWER the Iliad and the Odyssey about the Trojan war
Hesiod wrote - ANSWER the Theogony about the origin of the gods
Vergil - ANSWER the Aeneid about an early immigrant to Italy
Ovid - ANSWER wrote the Metamorphoses about all of mythical history
philosophy - ANSWER rational inquiry into the natural world and human ethics
tragedy - ANSWER "goat song" a dramatization of legend in festivals at Athens
hymn - ANSWER oral dictated texts celebrating the gods and their powers
history - ANSWER recount the legendary exploits of ancient kings, heroes, and the like.
epic - ANSWER a long poem on a heroic topic
mythography - ANSWER systematic collection and uncritical recording of stories about
gods and heroes
euhemerism - ANSWER interpretation of myths as traditional accounts of historical
persons and events - the gods were once humans.
800 BC significance - ANSWER start of Archaic Period, end of Dark Age