Exam 25: Theories of Myth Interpretation

What writer of the later sixth century BC was said to have been the first to use the allegorical method?

Roman writers who followed Stoic philosophy argued that Juno was really _______ because the Greek and Latin word for _______ sounded like "Hera"?

Bronislaw Malinowski is the founder of which theory of myth?

Porphyry produced an extremely complex interpretation of Homer's description of the _______, arguing that it represents the universe because it is generated from matter and is natural.

Walter Burkert argues that the structures that inform myth reflect biological or cultural _______.

Plotinus saw a correspondence between Intellect and _______.

The Oedipus Complex is a famous theory put forth by _______.

This representation of Oedipus is taken from Atalanta Fugiens (1617), a work by _______ in which he argues for reading myths as alchemical allegories.

Who complained in the sixth century BC about the ethical weakness of the Olympian gods, and insisted that popular notions about them must be wrong?

_______ is a Greek word that means "something put together with something else."

Which of the following are, according to Giambattista Vico, the three phases in the great cycle of history?

The interpretation of Cronus as "time" illustrates how the Stoics used _______ to reinforce allegory?

Which of the following became the major philosophical movement of the final centuries of the pagan era (AD 200-500)?

Max Müller is the founder of which theory of myth?

The special contribution of which ancient author was to explain myths as originating from a misunderstanding of language?

Which of the following is the thesis that gods were once humans?

Which ancient author banned poets and their lying stories in his vision of the ideal state?

Botticelli's painting of the birth of Venus reflects which the ideas of which philosophical school?

Sir James Frazer's book _______ is often ranked as one of the most influential works of modern times.

The highly influential theory of structuralism is particularly associated with _______, who wrote that "mythical thought always works from the awareness of oppositions toward their progressive mediation."