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Mythology

Greek Myths-- Paragraph responses Assignment sheet:                   Help writing paragraphs:

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Defining Mythology Note

 1. Myths are traditional and originally oral stories which often claim to illustrate the early history of a group of people. 

2. Even if we do not believe the myth's narratives to be strictly true, they are meaningful because they show the reader what others believed. They inform the reader about the practices, values, and religious beliefs of that time and place. For example, what to sacrifice to gods, or an image of the afterlife.

-For Greek myth, Homer's Iliad and Homer's The Odyssey and Hesiod's Works and Days were the first written records.  These works took on religious- like reverence, study, and appreciation by scholars to this day.

-Because stories were oral, you will hear different versions of the same story.

3. Myths contain super-humans, personified beasts, monsters, gods, and demi-gods. 


4.  Often myths contain explanations for natural phenomena (ex. rise and set of sun, origin of people or world).

5. Often myths require maturity and perspective. Some myths involve mature and difficult topics like rape, incest, castration, sexism, revenge, and affairs. For this and many other reasons we must be mature and thoughtful when reading myths. 


​Extension Question:
Every place and culture has its own mythology. Can you connect to a Canadian myth? Or, how about this? Do these fit the definition above for myth?

Greek Myths


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The Myth of Persephone

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The Myth of Haracles

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(Read 1-2 (skip 12 labours) and last page -- Death
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Pandora's Box

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Lessons and Limits from the Gods 

Arachne
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​Orpheus 

 Love and Myth 

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Odysseus 

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Cupid and Psyche
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Sisyphus
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