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ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY: SETTING THE SCENE
Thursday, Sept 10, 2015THEO 226
WHAT YEAR IS IT?(IN THE WESTERN WORLD)
2015 AD = (Anno Domini = “in the year of our Lord [Jesus Christ]”) BC = Before Christ BCE = Before Common Era CE = Common Era
GREEK MYTHOLOG
Y(WESTERN)
ANCIENT GREECE
8TH C. BCE – 1ST C. CE
CLASSICAL GREECE
5TH C. BCE – 4TH C. BCE
HOMER & HESIOD: ANCIENT GREEK POETS
Homer (12th – 8th C. BCE) Hesiod (8th – 7th C. BCE)
HOLLYWOOD GOES GREEK
[Homer’s] Odyssey miniseries (1997) [Homer’s Iliad] Helen of Troy (1956;
2003) Troy (2004) [Homer’s] Ulysses (1955) Hercules (2014) 300 (2006; Rise of an Empire: 2014) Clash of the Titans (2010) Wrath of the Titans (2012) The Immortals (2011)
COSMOGONY & THEOGONY: THE ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS
Chaos, Gaea, Tartarus, Eros Chaos: Darkness & Night
Air, Light & Day Gaea (Earth): Uranus
(Heaven), Mountains, Sea
BIBLICAL MYTHOLOGY (EASTERN)
ANCIENT NEAR EAST
&
PALESTINE /
ISRAEL
THE (CHRISTIAN)
BIBLE
=
HEBREW BIBLE (OLD
TESTAMENT)+
NEW TESTAMENT
ABRAHAM, THE “FATHER” OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL
Genesis chapters 12 – 25 (c. 2,000 BCE)
Abraham Isaac
Jacob (Israel) 12 Patriarchs ( = 12
tribes)
THE HEBREW BIBLICAL TRADITION
The Hebrew Bible most probably took its present form around the 6th C. BCE (6th C. BCE: neo-Babylonian/Persian
period) (4th C. BCE: Alexander the Great would
conquer the Persian Empire, including Judaea [Palestine])
BIBLICAL CREATION MYTH
1 God who exists prior to anything else (cf. Gn 1.26ff); the origins of this God are not explained
The situation prior to creation: the Earth was “without form and void”; darkness; abyss (waters)
God creates by speaking order into this situation of chaos
Light, Heaven, Earth and Seas are created during the first 3 days of the “week of creation”
CREATION MYTHS COMPARED
Hesiod’s Theogony Chaos, Gaea, Tartarus,
Eros Chaos: Darkness & Night
Air, Light & Day Gaea (Earth): Uranus
(Heaven), Mountains, Sea Creation by reproduction
Biblical Creation Myth 1 God who exists prior to anything
else (cf. Gn 1.26ff); the origins of this God are not explained
The situation prior to creation: the Earth was “without form and void”; darkness; abyss (waters)
God creates by speaking order into this situation of chaos
Light, Heaven, Earth and Seas are created during the first 3 days of the “week of creation”
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