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Creation Myth
- Greek
o Hesiod’s Theogony
o Gaia (fertility) birthed generations of gods
o Cosmos came into being by generalised universal sex drive of nature
- Babylonian
o “Enuma Elish”
o narrates success of hero/god Marduk for supreme power
o Tiamat (sea water) and Apsu (sweet water) mingled together to create the earth
- common themes
o natural forces evolve into anthropomorphic gods
o pathogenic [...]

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Homer
- bridged the dark ages and Archaic period
- part of a politically fragmented world, confusing and uncertain life, dependant on War-Lords for protection
- beginning of Greek’s travelling more, plying seas and trading abroad
- the Homeric Hero
o “doer of deeds” = strong, brave and skilled at fighting
o “speaker of words” = persuasive, get warriors to follow [...]

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- ritual, re-enacts a fairly short sequence of events, commemorating gods/heroes taking place in/around religious locations
- death with birth, death and growth, very secretive
- initiation/mysteries/rites of passage, sexual initiation, resurrection as an adult
- Eros is a creative force, dependant on females, necessity of reproduction, while also showing the dangers of courtship and coupling in temples
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Gah, I hate it when parents are annoying. It’s not really my parent’s fault any more, but David’s dad, yes. Stupid man, wanting to know specific times of meeting. I don’t do specific times, I like making things up as I go along. However, if someone else sets a time, I will be there way [...]

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What is a monster? According to Bulfinch[1] monsters are terrible beings of unnatural structure and proportions, strength and ferocity, which challenge men. Monsters exist in order to give heroes something to contest, something to bring meaning into their otherwise deficient lives. Although the main function of monsters often is to be killed, they frequently have [...]

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The three main tragedians of Classical Greece are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Each has his own individual style, as explained later in this paper.
Euripides could be read superficially as a “realist”, but he frequently presents fragmented worlds described in very formal language. He usually opens his plays with a non-naturalistic prologue in the form of [...]

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