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• Oral tradition:

  When knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted by word of mouth from one generation to another.
• Aetiology:

  The cause or reason for a thing. As a story it explains why things are the way that they are.
• Mirror:

  With reference to a story, this is a narrative that displays or engages with ideas, events, identities or concerns that are familiar to readers from their own lives.
• Window:

  With reference to a story, this is a narrative that displays or engages with ideas, events, identities or concerns that are different or unfamiliar to readers from their own lives.
• Character:

  A person, animal or animate object in a story that speaks, acts and/or influences the narrative events.
• Context:

  With reference to literature, this refers to the circumstances in which a work was created, including social, historical and geographical.
• Ancient Greece:

  A society with shared language, values and beliefs that settled the coastlines, islands and countries around the Aegean Sea in the 800s-300s BCE.
• Ancient Rome:

  A society, founded in Rome, that expanded across the European Continent and the Mediterranean Sea between 753 BCE and into Late Antiquity.
• Athena and Arachne aetiological elements:

  • The origin of spiders
  • Why spiders weave webs
  • The origin of the term arachnophobia
• Romulus and Remus aetiological elements:

  • The parentage of Romulus and Remus
  • The reason Rome is called Rome
  • The reason Rome is where it is
• Romulus and Remus explains the world by showing:

  • Why Romans were strong (Mars as their ancestor)
  • Who was the founding father of the Roman race
  • What happened at the beginning of Rome’s history
• Athena and Arachne explains the world by showing:

  • Why spiders look the way they do (ugly)
  • Why spiders make such beautiful webs
  • Why spiders are named arachnids
• 1. Romulus and Remus: Context: ancient Rome, Greek gods (i.e., Mars), Rome the city and Rome the empire
• 1. The Myth of Athena and Arachne,:Context: ancient Greece, Greek gods (i.e., Athena), what weaving is and involves
• Plot to The Myth of Athena and Arachne:

  Arachne was a very good weaver. One day she boasted that she was even better than the gods. Athena confronted her as she felt disrespect, trying to make Arachne apologise. However, when she didn't, Athena challenged her to a competition. Both had equal skill at the end but Arachne wove about the bad things the gods had done and Athenas wove about the glory of the gods. Athena is angry at Arachne for being cocky and he choice of weaving so she turns her into a spider so she can weave forever.
• Plot to The Myth of Romulus and Remus:

  Romulus and Remus are brothers who get forced out of their kingdom by their king where they live and grow up with a farmer and his wife. One day Remus gets captured by the king so Remus goes to save him and when doing so kills the king and overthrows his kingdom. The two brothers start fighting over the new land so Romulus kills Remus and founds Rome
• How these stories can be described as ‘windows’ into another society and/or time. (Arachne): This story can be described as a window into another society as it provides information on what the people back then had thought about their superiors (like the gods)as opposed to how we think about our superiors.
• How these stories can be described as ‘windows’ into another society and/or time. (Remus and Romulus): This story can be described as a window into another society as it provides information on what and how people back then did when things didn't go their way. For example, when Remus and Romulus get into a disagreement, they settle it by killing the other person whereas if this happened today, there would be little violence and at most a court session.
• Comedy: With reference to Shakespeare’s plays, this is a genre of narrative identifiable by commonalities in character and narrative structure often including deception, misunderstanding, mistaken identity and, ultimately, resolution through marriage.