Heroes/Orpheus and Orphism.... Myserty Religion in Roman Times

Classics 221 with Tandy at University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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The Thracian bard ORPHEUS summoned HYMEN, the god of _, to be present at his marriage to his beloved _

marriage, Eurydice

Eurydice died at her wedding by...

being bitten on the ankle by a snake from the bad omens.

Orpheus descended to the Underworld, appealing to the king and queen Hades and Persephone, in a song sung to the accompaniment of his _.

Lyre

Hades and Persephone agreed to allow Eurydice to come back on the condition:

Orpheus was not to turn back to look at Eurydice until he had left the Underworld, but he looked bac anyways, dumbass.

Orpheus said Eurydice would not be brought back to life he would...

he would prefer to remain there in death with his beloved

Orpheus secluded himself to the _ for three years after losing Eurydice a second time.

Mountains, rejecting many advances by sluts

Thus _ was the originator of homosexuality among the _.

Orpheus, Thracians

As the madness and the frenzied music of the _ grew more wild and the bard’s song was drowned out, then killed torn to pieces by their fury.

maenads, the Bacchic women might of killed him though, one of the two.

Why did the Bacchic women's initial attacks do no harm to Orpheus at first?

His song was too sexy.

Orpheus's limbs were scattered, but his head and lyre floated on the river _ then out to sea, both all the while _.

Herbus, singing/making lamentations

Orepheu's head and limbs and lyre were washed ashore at _, where, _ froze into stone a serpent that was about to bite the head of Orpheus.

Lesbos, Apollo

The difference in myths of Oprheus by Ovid and Virgil, is that Virgil makes Eurydice's death by...

ARISTAEUS, or ARISTAIOS, the keeper of bees, responsible for Eurydice’s death.

_ of Thrace was the son of Apollo (or the Thracian river-god Oeagrus) and the muse Calliope.

Orpheus

Through music and poetry and with extraordinary art, Orpheus delivered a persuasive religious message, the foundation of a mystery religion called _.

Orphism

The orhpic bible states Time (Chronos) and Eros, or Love, is the first born of the deities, called PHANES and hatched from an _.

egg

The orphic bible also states from the ashes of the Titans (smitten by Zeus’ thunderbolt), _ were created; hence the _ of the soul, sin and virtue, reward and punishment.

Humans, immortality

Mystery Religions are called mystery religions because...

their concern with the fundamental mysteries of human existence: life and death, questions about god, the soul, and the afterlife. Also, these mysteries involved secrets revealed only to members of the religious group, the initiates.

In mystery religions _ in the concept of god or the gods was primary, as well as a conviction in the _ of the human soul.

Faith, immortality

Harmonizing by different religions of their gods and myths into some sort of unity.

Syncretism

Who is sometimes said to be the father of Orpheus?

Oeagrus

Which is not a Dionysian element in the story of Orpheus?

He plays a lyre

Who sprang from the cosmic egg in the Orphic cosmology?

Phanes

What was the name given to the shedding of the blood of a bull in the rites or Cybele and Attis?

taurobolium

"According to Vergil, Eurydice's untimely death resulted from:"

a snakebite she suffered while attempting to flee the advances of Aristaeus.

Orpheus had his origins in:

Thrace

"According to Orphic theogony, the first principle was:"

Chronos

"Like Hesiod, the Orphic tradition introduces early on the procreative power of Eros, also called by the Orphics:"

Phanes

Which sea-god does Aristaeus consult to learn why his bees have died?

Proteus

What is NOT a typical feature of mystery cults?

disbelief in an afterlife.

A full account of the initiation into the rites of Isis is given in:

Apuleius' Metamorphoses.

Which Aegean island was home to the cult of the Cabiri?

Samothrace

Which god is a consort of Dea Syria?

Tammuz

Sisyphus founded the Isthmian Games because of the _ she found red from a boiling pot.

Boy

Ino and _ in Thebes.

Athamas

Ino and _ in the Gulf of Corinth

Melicertes

Sisyphus named the games after a monster called.

Cyto (spelling?)

In the third Isthmian games, Heracles’ fifth Labor, the Stables of _.... He kills _ and then after he founds the _ games.

Augeas, Olympic

An army of seven marched on Thebes, then stopped at _ looking for water. They leave babybasket with _ boy on ground, come back and find he's dead. Found the _ games

Namea, snake boy, Nemean

Game in greek

Athloi

Games

Athlos

Prize

Athlon

Games are usually founded after a __ or ___.

Death or Murder

The competitors are the...

Athletes

__/__ means ‘prize-winning’… also means ‘wretched’, ‘miserable’

Athlios/aethlios

_ of Heracles are considered no different than the events/games… ‘ordeal’

Laborers

Athletic games of Greece closely related to rights of the _

dead

Muses originally goddesses of funerals, each foundation of the games usually a compensation for the suffering of a dying figure, usually a _.

boy

Heroes either live in _ past (long time ago) or in relation to Trojan war. All myths involving heroes usually lead to _.

timeless, Trojan War

All hero myths start out _, and some transcend this and become more important like Oedipus.

local

Hero is in _ literaly, from that location in the _ the hero _ the place where he is and _ others who helped him and oversees _ especially the passing of boys into manhood

Earth/ground, protects, heals, rights of passage

something _ also do is safeguard/promote civilization

Heroes

Heroes primary functions are... (3)

They protect
Heal
Oversee rites of passage

The greatest glory a hero can achieve is to _ performing well, _ in battle…

die, death

Servant of Apollo, fasted, traveled on golden arrow of Apollo, plague

Abaris

Aristeas

Traveled north found people no heads, eye in their chest, gryphiffs birds (priests)… somehow he had knowledge of these places. Claimed to be able to be in more than one place at once (a bird)…. He did this in order to spread the teachings of Apollo

Epimenides

From Crete, stopped plagues in Athens year 600, again in 500, stories of his great age, 57 year sleep losing his sheep, priest of Zeus, said to have wandered out of his body, special diet ox hook, when he died prepared for burial by family took his clothes off and discovered body covered w/ tattoos (only runaway slaves tattooed himself, but a place north of Greece, shamans cover themselves in tattoos the most important ones)

Pythagoras

Southern Italy, followers had special diet no meat/beans from belief in reincarnation, divinity of numbers, proved square root of 2/3/5 so on were irrational numbers

Some generlizations of shamans (7)

Real people
Fasting/special diets
Hyperborean Apollo connection
Plague prevention
Bilocation; soul travel, can be in more than on place
Traveling distances without their bodies
Manipulation of natural world, especially with Orpheus

About this deck

By: Gustavo Cornholio
Textbook:

Classical Mythology

The Essential Odyssey
Created: 2010-10-21
Size: 58 flashcards
Views: 105

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