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The Epic Tradition of Storytelling

The Epic Tradition of Storytelling. Spring 2010.

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The Epic Tradition of Storytelling

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  1. The Epic Tradition of Storytelling Spring 2010

  2. Etiology (alternatively aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation, or origination. The word is derived from the Greek αἰτιολογία, aitiologia, "giving a reason for" (αἰτία, aitia, "cause"; and -λογία, -logia).[1]The word is most commonly used in medical and philosophical theories, where it is used to refer to the study of why things occur, or even the reasons behind the way that things act, and is used in philosophy, phyics, psychology, government, medicine, theology, and biology in reference to the causes of various phenomena. An etiological myth is a story intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family.From “Etiology” Wikipedia

  3. Joseph Campbell on The Hero The hero’s sphere of action is not the transcendent but here, now, in the field of time, of good and evil -- of the pairs of opposites. Whenever one moves out of the transcendent, one comes into a field of opposites. One has eaten of the tree of knowledge, not only of good and evil, but of male and female, of right and wrong, of this and that, and of light and dark. Everything in the field of time is dual: past and future, dead and alive, being and nonbeing. But the ultimate pair in the imagination are male and female,the male being aggressive, and the female being receptive, the male being the warrior, the female the dreamer. We have the realm of love and the realm of war, Freud’s Eros and Thanatos. Heraclitus said that for God all things are good and right and just, but for man some things are right and others are not. When you are a man, you are in the field of time and decisions. One of the problems of life is to live with the realization of both terms, to say, “I know the center, and I know that good and evil are simply temporal aberrations and that, in God’s view, there is no difference.” From The Power of Myth (1991)

  4. The Argo

  5. J.W. WaterhouseJason and MedeaDate: 1907Medium: Oil on canvasSize: 134 x 107 cm

  6. Perseus Beheading Medusa Benvenuto Cellini   1645-1554  Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence  Bronze  18 feet high 

  7. Perseus Liberating Andromeda 1639-40 Peter Paul Rubens Museo Del Prado Madrid, Spain

  8. THESEUS & THE MINOTAUROS British Museum, London, UK Attributed to the Meleager PainterDate: ca 400 - 300 BCPeriod: Late Classical SUMMARY: Theseus grasps a rather comical looking Minotauros by the horn, as he prepares to slay it with his sword.

  9. The Drunken Hercules 1611 Peter Paul Rubens Gemäldegalerie Dresden, Germany

  10. Atalanta and Hippomenes Guido Reni (1623)

  11. Daedalus and Icarus(1777-79)ANTONIO CANOVAMarble SculptureMuseo Correr, Venice

  12. Landscape With the Fall of Icarus (1558) Peter Bruegel the Elder (1525-69) Poems by Williams and Stevens

  13. Jean-Baptiste Camille CorotOrpheus Leading Eurydice Through the Underworld (1861)

  14. Bellerophon on Pegasus (1746-47)GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLOFresco, Palazzo Labia, Venice

  15. PhaethonGustave Moreau[1878]

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