Eliade - Chapter 4
Literal eschatology - end of the world
Metaphorical eschatology - end of your perceiving the world
insufficiently
The Golden Bough is in: Eternal Darkness Nintendo game
Apocalypse Now
Eureka 7 anime
Wicker Man
V for Vendetta
"Religions of the Book": Judaism, Christianity, Islam - "once and for all" apocalypse.
1) What were the pierides? Magpies.
2) What did Scylla steal from her dad? Purple hair.
3) How did Daedelus trap the Minotaur? The Labyrinth
4) How did Theseus find his way out of the Labyrinth? Twine from Ariadne.
5) What was on Europa’s basket? The story of Io’s abduction.
6) How did Shakespeare outdo Ovid in grotesqueness? Levenia’s hands were cut off as well.
7) Mythological animal from Green Leaf? The Bull.
8) Where was Adonis struck by the boar? The groin.
9) What mythic rule did Proserpina break? Ate some pomegranate.
10) Why are there seasons? Proserpina ate while in the Underworld.
11) In Cadmus and Harmony, what are the 3 stages? i) Conviviality. ii) Rape. iii) Indifference
12) One of the few stories in Ovid with a happy ending? Pygmalion
13) “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
14) Dr. Sexson believes that in Ovid, the task of the artist is not to represent nature but to alter nature.
15) 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.
16) According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, how did Hercules die? Chunks of flesh. (The shirt)
17) What was Adonis’ gore turned into? Anemone flower.
18) According to Homer’s Odyssey, why do we suffer? So the poets have something to write about.
19) Ekphrasis - Velasquez and the Titian paintings
20) Who is the wife of Hercules who received the Shirt of Flame? Deianira
“The imagination must have a local habitation and a name.”
21) Tom and Christine Corrins’s Parents
22) Nessus was the name of the centaur who kidnapped Hercules wife.
22) What does sleep signify mythologically? Amnesia
23) The horn of plenty comes from where? Hercules ripping the horn off Achelous
24) What was the fate of Icharus? (To end up in a painting) Fell out of the sky and drowned.
25) Acording to Eliade, what does catharsis mean? Black eyeliner
26) The life of a culture is mirrored in the life of the individual. Ontology Recapitulates Phylogony
27) “I shall have life!” I will live forever - Ovid’s Metamorphosis
28) Mememoreme - Remember me.
29) TR from 1300-2400 - Dr. Sexson’s Office Hours
