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WHAP Greece
Greek history and art
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is in media res? | Greek tragedies start in the middle of action |
| Define a tragedy | Imitation of life acted out, serious complete and important can stand alone TERROR AND PITY |
| How was violence used? | None on stage, messenger came and described everything |
| Define a Tragic Hero | Of noble stature or high ability. Falls from a high point. Has a tragic flaw. The punishment exceeds the crime Gains self knowledge |
| What're Aristotle's 6 components of a Greek tragedy? | Fable-beginning, middle, and end manner- developed characters diction sentiments decoration music |
| What're the functions of the chorus? | relieve tension narration background create a mood interpret events dancing converse with characters/give advice |
| What's arete? | excellence in all things |
| What's an invocation? | Prayer to call in the deity you're praying to |
| What're epic (Homeric) similes? | used to connect tragedy to normal life |
| What's an epithet? | A title given to a deity |
| What're the three types of poetry? | Narrative, lyric, dramatic |
| What's narrative poetry? | Poetry that tells a story |
| What's lyric poetry? | Poetry that expresses the emotions of the poet |
| What's dramatic poetry? | Poetry that has the speaker as a character |
| Where was Persia located? | In the Middle East Cyrus the Great moved it from Northern Middle East to North West India |
| How did Persians influence the Greeks? | Architecture? |
| How was Greece effected by it's geography? | There were many mountains and they created city states in the valleys because they couldn't come in contact with each other easily Had private merchant ships and trade who held high status in the city states |
| What happened at Mycenae? | Early kingdom in Southern Greece memorialized in Homer's epics about the Trojan war |
| What was the Trojan War? | The war fought between the city of Troy and the rest of Greece after Paris (of Troy) took Helen from the Spartan King when Aphrodite granted her to him after he declared her the fairest of the goddesses The Greeks won |
| Sparta v. Athens | Leading city states Peloponnesian War, switched the roles of Athens and Sparta, making Sparta be the new power |
| Who was Pericles? | Greek leader who restrained aggressive democrats and made each citizen take part in the selection of officials Didn't rule through official position but by influence and negotiation |
| What were the Peloponnesian Wars? | Sparta (and Persia)v. Athens switched roles of Sparta and Athens |
| Who was Alex the Great? | Ruler who extended the empire but died young and ruled by successor regional kingdoms Across Persia to India and Egypt |
| What was Hellenism? | Greek art + Middle Eastern Culture Influence of the Hellens or Greeks consolidation of Greek civ. and culture |
| What's democracy? | executive officers chosen by lot for brief terms, citizens voted directly |
| What was Greek religion like? | spirits of nature evolved into gods and goddesses promoted political loyalty "of this world" what gods could do for them and reveal of mankind |
| What were some Greek advances in science? | scientific thought earth, fire, air, water theories about planets and the sun |
| What were some technological advances? | classical and monumental architecture |
| What were some mathematical advances? | Pythagoras made the Pythagorean therm |
| How was the Greek economy? | commercial economy away from agricultural private merchants operated ships and trade |
| Greek social order | hierarchical with slaves on bottom women were economic functions |
| What was The Classical Ideal? | The standard of excellence Perfection of both body and mind |
| Who was Aeschylus? | Athenian tragic dramatist who wrote about the awareness of weakness and danger of power one must suffer to learn their errors Zeus was source of justice VIOLENT Oresteia- law of vendetta (blood for blood) The Libation Bearers Eumendies- v ends w/rea |
| Who was Apollo? | The god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, and music |
| Who was Aristophanes? | the greatest comic poet of Athens political satire and fantasy The Birds Lysistrata- women refuse to make love until peace |
| Who was Aristotle? | founded the Lyceum walked around his school rhetoric, poetics, catharsis (cleansing of the soul) |
| Who was Creon? | Ruler of Thebes in the legend of Oedipus |
| Who was Dionysus? | Apollo's opposite god of madness |
| Who was Euripides? | One of the greatest tragedians of classical Athens "the most tragic of poets" |
| Who was Herodotus? | collected materials systematically The Father of History |
| Who was Oedipus? | The hero of the tragedy Oedipus the King in which his fate says he will kill his father and marry his mother and in trying the stay from his fate he accidentally ends up doing what he avoided |
| Who was Sophocles? | The greatest of the poets and most successful consequences of individual mistakes Antigone and Oedipus |
| Who was Thucydides? | General of Athens during the Pelo Wars History of the Peloponnesian War-analyzed emotions and reactions for generations after to understand |
| Who was Tiresias? | The blind prophet, tells the future in tragedies |
| Who was Xerxes? | Persian king who invaded the Greek mainland |
| Who was Homer? | wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey repeated sections for break for story teller not god but humans in control of destiny not sure if he actually existed |
| What's the Homeric question? | "Who is Homer?"[1] "Are the epics of multiple or single authorship?"[2] "By whom, when, where, and under what circumstances were the poems composed?" |
| What was geometric pottery? | abstract design and mazes zigzags, and linear designs |
| What was protogeometric pottery? | circles and semi circles |
| What's Corinthian pottery? | elaborate and decorative style small size made ideal for exporting |
| What's Athenian pottery? | large less detailed |
| What was the kore? | standing female figure completely clothed resemble Egyptian cult statues |
| What was the kouros? | The standing male Typically one foot in front of the other absent of motion careful attention to the hair |
| What was the Kritios boy? | TURNING POINT BETWEEN ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL boy shown in motion with hips slanted and weight shifted |
| What's ethos? | gave music important role music effected behavior |
| Who's Terpander? | used the cithara (lyre)to accompany vocal music |
| What're modes? | scale types used to compose Greek music |
| Who was Sappho? | first woman in literature from the island of Lesbos wrote about feeling for men and women |
| Who's Hesiod? | First to regard himself as a topic poet |
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