CLAS 104 Exam Questions and Answers with complete solution test 1 and 2

TEST 1 Myth proper - stories that deal primarily with the gods Saga/legend - Historical stories with some fantastical elements Folklore - The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally. Fantastical adventures of heroes Etiological stories - stories about the origins and causes of things Allegorical/symbolic stories - what. you read/encounter in myth is representative of universal truths/human nature Psychoanalysis - Freud; human unconscious and our deepest desires are represented in myths. jung; collective unconscious Structuralism - Strauss; underlying structural oppositions within myths of all cultures reflect the customs and beliefs of the culture they're from. Burkert - Recognizes TEST 2 Poseidon - god of sea, earthquakes, horses, and storms at sea Amphitrite - Poseidon's wife Pontus/Pontos (sea) - produced by Gaia in the 1st stages of creation Oceanus - Latin form of okeanos, the Greek name for the "ocean river" past Gibraltar. -produced Oceanids w/ Tethys Triton - -Trumpeter of the Sea -Son of Poseidon & Amphitrite Proteus -