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    Zeus Is My Type!
    Zeus Is My Type!
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    Zeus Is My Type!

    By D.W. Frauenfelder

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    Have you ever wondered what Greek god you are most like? With Zeus Is My Type!, you'll learn this and much more, as sixteen Olympian divinities of Greek mythology are analyzed according to the Jungian personality type system. Zeus Is My Type makes copious use of the original and early sources of Greek mythology-- Homer, Hesiod, and the Greek tragedians-- to show how the Greeks really saw the immortals. Are you bossy like Zeus and Hera, creative like Hephaestus, seductive like Aphrodite? Read and discover.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid
    Release dateOct 5, 2014
    ISBN9781311245816
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      Zeus Is My Type! - D.W. Frauenfelder

      ZEUS IS MY TYPE!

      Greek Mythology and Jungian Psychology

      by David W. Frauenfelder, Ph.D.

      Published by Breakfast with Pandora Books, Durham, North Carolina

      in association with True North Writers and Publishers Co-operative

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright (c) 2014 by David W. Frauenfelder, Ph.D.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      To Maria-Viktoria

      Who found me a student, made me a scholar, and taught me how to respect the dignity of both

      Table of contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      The test

      Results

      Chapter 1: King and queen of heaven

      Zeus (ENTJ)

      Hera (ISTJ)

      Chapter 2: The brothers

      Hades (ESTJ)

      Poseidon (ESTP)

      Chapter 3: The sisters

      Demeter (ESFJ)

      Hestia (ISFJ)

      Chapter 4: Hera's sons

      Ares (ISTP)

      Hephaestus (INFP)

      Chapter 5: The twins

      Apollo (INTP)

      Artemis (ISFP)

      Chapter 6: Without a mother

      Aphrodite (ENFP)

      Dionysus (ESFP)

      Athena (INTJ)

      Chapter 7: Adopted

      Hermes (ENTP)

      Chapter 8: The outsiders

      Prometheus (ENFJ)

      Persephone (INFJ)

      Conclusions

      Reading and resources

      About the author

      Unless otherwise noted, all translations of ancient texts are my own.

      Preface

      Zeus Is My Type! began as a series of posts on my blog, Breakfast with Pandora. I began BwP in 2005 as an outlet for writing about my scholarly specialty, Greek and comparative mythology. Eventually it branched out to include such subjects as movies reviews and food recipes, but my goal has remained the same: to show that the ancient world still has much to say to us today.

      As I wrote in my very first post on the blog, When you have Breakfast with Pandora, you'll be getting your minimum RDA of accurate ancient data and informed modern opinion on what stories are doing, have done, and will do to and for us.

      In that spirit, Zeus Is My Type! relates Greek mythology to our contemporary psychological concerns. It chooses sixteen gods and goddesses from Greek mythology and analyzes their personalities from the point of view of the Jungian personality system, most popularly interpreted through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Myers-Briggs for short.

      Zeus Is My Type! focuses more on the details of the divinities than on technical aspects of the personality system. I am not a trained expert in Jungian personality types; you will not find, for example, abstruse discussions of such things as Fi, Se, or Te, useful as they may be at times. My interest in the typology has been consistent and long-lived, however, and I find knowing the types invaluable in understanding and interacting with others.

      So although I am something of a fan of MBTI rather than an expert, I am a degreed specialist in mythology. I've studied Greek language and literature for about thirty years, wrote a Ph.D. dissertation about Greek mythology, made mythology my academic research specialty, and have taught it to students from the ages of eight to eighty. Of course, I still don't know all of it or nearly close to all. The more I learn, the more I realize there's a lot more to know.

      Greek mythology-- and the religion it served-- is indeed voluminous. What started off as a set of loosely-related, localized systems of story, belief and ritual for a small but diverse ethnic group has grown into an enormous complex of stories and characters. There are many variant stories and traditions throughout millennia of transmission, and no one true story. It is the original fan fiction.

      When I describe the personalities of the divinities, therefore, I try to go back as early as possible, sourcing Greek literature from about 700-400 BC, the age of Homer, Hesiod, and the tragedians, the years when ancient Greek culture was at its most cohesive, and the divinities' personalities the most consistent.

      In fact, I can't think of a better way of meeting and understanding the Olympians than reading Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. These works have an undeserved reputation as slogs, or highbrow, but nothing could be further from the truth. The Theogony of Hesiod also makes for enlightening reading, and as it's short, it's a good introduction to early Greek mythology.

      As to secondary sources, Greek Religion by Walter Burkert tops my list. Available in English since 1985, it is still the deepest and most reliable comprehensive source for the Greek divinities. It is slow going for the untrained, but beautifully written and repays diligent reading. My second main source is Timothy Gantz' invaluable Early Greek Myth (Vols. 1 and 2), which makes an excellent attempt to put the various versions of the stories in some kind of chronological order.

      I also owe a debt to Dr. Maria-Viktoria Abricka, at whose feet I was privileged to sit as she made brilliant use of these sources, among others, while teaching Classical Mythology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

      Above all, I hope readers will have fun with this book. I've written Zeus Is My Type in the spirit of play, seeking to open possibilities of thought and exploration rather than determining and prescribing one true right answer. Human beings are endlessly fascinating, complex, and fun creatures. I hope this book helps you to see, or re-see that fact.

      David W. Frauenfelder, Ph.D.

      October 2014

      Introduction

      What is this book good for?

      I've always thought that if you go to the trouble of reading a book, you should get something out of it. So here it is. If you read this book, you will

      * discover facts about ancient Greek (mostly Olympian) divinities (gods and goddesses)-- their personalities, habits, interests, activities, and assorted gifts and weirdnesses

      * become familiar with the personality types of the popular system from Jungian psychology

      * learn how Jungian personality types are apt for describing Olympian divinities

      * determine how you yourself are like or unlike a particular Olympian divinity or divinities

      If this were scholarship, I would now say that the book also fills a hole in current Jungian personality type scholarship. This book is only a partial hole-filler, however, for though it's true that no one has done a comprehensive study of Olympian divinities and personality type, I wouldn't consider this book comprehensive. Nor would I consider it scholarship.

      Anyway, if you answered like for a through d, then I think this book will be a good investment for you.

      In fact, if you answered like for any of the letters, I believe you will still enjoy this book. I have read somewhere that if you regularly use only one recipe from a cookbook you buy, then that cookbook was worth it. I think this applies to my book as well.

      And yes, there is a recipe at the end, just in case you are looking for that.

      Greek mythology and you

      How much do you know about Greek mythology and the Olympian divinities? Take this convenient true or false quiz! The results might surprise you.

      1. Ancient Greeks originally believed the sun to be the goddess Apollo leading a fiery chariot across the sky.

      2. The story of Persephone, Hades, and Demeter explained the origin of the seasons.

      3. The parents of Hercules were Zeus and Hera.

      4. In ancient Greece, the story of Athena and Arachne was among the top five most popular myths.

      5. The goddess Aphrodite was born from a seashell.

      6. The god Hephaestus invented robot helpers.

      How did you answer? I hope you got that #1 is false just because Apollo is not a goddess.

      As it happens, all these are false except for #6, which, to me, seems like it should be the most false of them all. But real Greek mythology can be very surprising, especially if you learned about it mainly in grade school.

      Greek mythology continues to be a popular subject for the K-5 crowd, and I am eternally grateful to teachers for exposing students to it. Unfortunately, teachers have to simplify, sweeten and systematize in order to make the subject seem as if it's appropriate for young folks who are not ready for complexity and nuance but are hungry for facts, facts, and more facts.

      This is where, for example, you get the idea that Athena is the goddess of wisdom, or Ares is the god of war. Each god is just a god of something, and that's it. So if there is a god of war, then there must be one of vegetables, one of sadness, and one of personal computers.

      Further Info If you'd like to know the answers to the true-false quiz...

      1. False. Besides not being a goddess, Apollo took on the mantle of god of the sun after Alexander the Great conquered the Near East (4th century BC) and scholars and poets became interested in Near Eastern religions where gods represented heavenly bodies such as the sun, moon, and planets. Apollo's specialties are numerous and complex, and it might be best to use Walter Burkert's words for him: "

      2. False. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter says that Persephone comes out of the earth every spring to be reunited with her mother. There

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