Exam 2 covers the Course Content in Module 1 over the study and history of myth, the Course Content for Module 2, the Course Content for Module 3, and chapters 1 through 4 in Mythology: Reading Myth by the River. Students should study carefully, the following materials.
Know the following individuals or schools and their theories:
Campbell
Church fathers
Darwin
Doniger
Doty
Einstein
Eliade
Ellwood
Euhemeros
Frazier
Freud
Frye
Graves
Grimm brothers
Herder
Hesiod
Jung
Kuhn
Levi-Strauss
Lincoln
Malinowski
Marx
Muller
Nature school
Plato
Propp
Raglan
Saussure
Vico
Wagner
Be able to define the following terms:
Aryan hypothesis
binary oppositions
charter
comparative mythologists
elementary ideas
ethnocentrism
euhemerist
Enlightenment
folk or ethnic ideas
folktale/folklore
Golden age
ideology
legend
logos
monomyth
mores
mythology
mythos
profane
Renaissance
Romantic period
sacred
structuralism
taboos
Ur-language
Know the authors of the following books:
Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return
The Golden Bough
The Hero
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Power of Myth
The Sacred and the Profane
The White Goddess
Know the definitions and emphases of Weigle's nine types of creation myths
Be able to identify examples of each of Weigle's nine types of creation myths
Know the following theorists and their theories in detail:
Woolger & Woolger Jean Shinoda Bolen
Know in detail the Male and Female Divine Archetypes: be able to identify examples
Know the following terms:
matrifocal
matriarchal
Mythology: Reading Myth by the River, Ch. 2/Module 2: 12 multiple choice (28 points total)
Mythology: Reading Myth by the River, Chs. 3 and 4/Module 3: 12 multiple choice (29 points total)


