Gorgon's head on a silver coin of Naples permission to use image granted

F11: CLA215, Mythology:   Review for Exam 3

The god Apollo on a gold coin of Syracuse image courtesy of Edgar L. Owen, #3803

Theories of Myth Interpretation: (Powell, Ch 24 in 6th edit; Ch 25 in 7th edit.)

• Key Names & Terms: structuralism, Claude Levi-Strauss,
  
• go to Powell's web site: click here (pay attention to the terms at the back of the chapters)

Heroic Myths:

• Intro & Gilgamesh: Powell, Chapter 13 (12 in 4th-6th edit):
• Key Names & Terms: hero, Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Utnapishtim, Ishtar, Siduri
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here

• Perseus: Powell, Chapter 14 (13 in ...):
  
• Key Names & Terms: Perseus, Danaus, Danaids, Acrisius, Danae, Polydectes, Gorgons, Medusa, Andromeda
• web site for script (click here)

• Heracles: Powell, Chapter 15 (14 in ...:
• Key Names & Terms: Heracles, Alcmena, Eurystheus, Amphitryon, Megara, Nemean lion, Hydra, Ceryneian deer, Erymanthian boar, Chiron, Augeas, Cretan bull, horses of Diomedes, Admetus, Alcestis, Hippolyta, Geryon, apples of the Hesperides, Antaeus, Cerberus, Omphale, Deianira, Nessus, Philoctetes
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here
• Hercules, the movie:
  
• Key names & terms: Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Hades, Pain, Panic, the fates, Hercules, Alcmene, Amphitryon, Phil, Pegasus, Meg, the titans, the cyclops, Thebes, "go the distance", "true hero"
• web site for script (click here)
  

• Greek Heroes & the Underworld: Powell, Chapter 12 (11 in ..):
• Key Names and terms: Hades, Pluto, Erinyes, Psychopompos, Tiresias, Tantalus, Sisyphus, Elysium, Orpheus, Eurydice, Acheron, Charon, Ixion
• sample questions at his web site (click here)

• Theseus: Powell, Chapter 16-17 (15-16 in ...):
• Key Names & Terms: Aegeus, Theseus, Procrustes, Medea, Minos, Minotaur, Ariadne, Hippolytus, Phaedra, Pirithoüs, Centaurs,
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here (Ch15); and here (Ch 16)
  

• Oedipus: Powell, Chapter 18 (17 in ...):
• Key Names & Terms: Cadmus, Europa, Harmonia, Sparti, Laius, Jocasta, Oedipus, Creon, Polynices, Haemon, Antigone, Eteocles, Ismene,
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here

• Jason: Powell, Chapter 19 (18 in ...):
• Key Names & Terms: Pelias, Jason, Chiron, Argo, Lemnos, Phineus, Aeëtes, Medea, Apsyrtus, Creon
  
• sample questions at his web site: click here

Possible Essay Question:

• Cultural Norms: Starting with the three American cultural norms that you examined in Paper 3, examine to what extent they are also cultural norms in 3 of the mythic groups from these chapters (e.g. treat the 3 trips to the underworld we covered from chapter 12 as one mythic group). Answer the question of why (or why not) in your conclusion.

• Love: Examine the role of "love" in Disney's Hercules and 2 from the list below. In your conclusion, address your examination tells us about "love". The list:
  
• the poetic selections in the Heroes & the underworld,
• the selections from Sophocles' Antigone (and what Powell gives of the plot of the play; on-line, lines 891-930 are the most important: Ian Johnson's translation; George Theodorides' translation)
  
• from Eurpides' Hippolytus,
• from Euripides' Medea.

• "Every hero has a weakness" (paraphrased from the movie): Based on the evidence in Powell or the movie, is this true for 3 of the following heroes: Jason, Oedipus, Perseus, Heracles, Hercules. If so, demonstrate what the weakness is; if not, demonstrate why not (don't consider being able to die as a possible weakness--that is not what Hades had in mind when he made that statement).