Lit 285 11/4/2010
*For test make sure you know ch 4 out of Eliade
*Look at Dustin’s Blog for test.
The golden bough is in: Eternal Darkness Nintendo game, Eureka 7 anime, Wicker Man, V for Vendetta
Religions of the Book”:
1.)What were the pierades? Magpies
2.)Separation, Initiation and return: the 3 cycles of the heroes
3.) Scylla-took purple hair from dad
4.)How did Daedelus trap the Minotaur? The Labyrinth
5.) How did Theseus find his way out of the Labyrinth? Twine from Ariadne
6.) What was on Europa’s basket? The story of Io’s abductions
7.)How did S outdo Ovid in grotesqueness? Levenia’s hands were cut off as well
8.)Mythological animal from Green Leaf? The Bull
9.)Where was Adonis struck by the boar? In the groin
(the fisher king was in a battle and was wounded in the groin.( T.S poem-the fisher king.))
10.)What mythic rule did Proserpina break? She ate a handful of pomegranates (for every seed she ate she had to spend that many months in the underworld)
11.)Why are there seasons? Proserpina ate while in the Underworld
12.)In Camus and Harmony, what are the 3 stages? I conviviality ii rape iii indifference
13.)One of the few stories in Ovid with a happy ending? Pygmalion (he craved a woman out of stone)
14.)T.S. elate- we shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be the arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
15.) Dr. Sexson believes that in Ovid, the task of the artist is not to represent nature but to alter nature.
16.) What was the central difference between Arachne’s and Minerva’s tapestry? Minerva’s displayed the “state sponsored art” Arachne weaved the gods as invasive criminals.
18.) What did Venus turn Adonoses blood into? Anemone flower
19.) According to Homer’s Odyssey, why do we suffer? So poets have something to write about.
20.) Ekphrasis: is comparing one art form to another
21.) Kristen and tom are Corrine’s parents
22.) “The Imagination must have a local habitation and a name”
23.) Who was the wife of Hercules who received the shirt of Flame? Deianira
24.) What is the origin of the horn of plenty? Hercules toe from the bulls head (Achelous)
25.) Nessus- what is the name of the centaur that abducted Hercule’s wife
26.) What does sleep in Eliade represent? Amnesia and imprisonment
27.) What was the fate of Icharus’ son? (To end up in a painting) fell out of the sky and drowned
28.) According to Eliade, what does catharsis mean? Releasing
29.) Look at Sari albee, Johns, Marys, blog (Sari’s blog has great notes)
30.) book 15 of Ovid
Last words of Ovid- I shale have life
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