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EN 207 Midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Beginning of the Song that Diverts the Heart (Egyptian Love Poem) | She is trapping birds which is a metaphor for men and the first to catch her bait, she has sex with |
| My God, my Lotus (Egyptian Love Poem) | Girl- she wants to bathe in the Nile river for him and show him her love, but he has to cross the river for her Boy- He is willing to cross the crocodile (which he compares to a mouse) infested river to have her. They end up meeting and having sex |
| I wish I was her Nubian maid (Egyptian Love Poem) | He wants give her fruit and see her naked, he wants to wash her clothes then rub them against him, he wants to have her hand in marriage, and thus, her love. |
| I passed close by his house (Egyptian Love Poem) | She wants to run up and kiss him, but he is surrounded by his family. Didactic poetry suggests that it is not good manners/behavior to show your love in front of family/elders. |
| Seven whole days Seventh Stanza (Egyptian Love Poem) | He becomes physically ill when she's not around. |
| Am I not here with you? (Egyptian Love Poem) | He took her virginity and now she's worried that he used her for sex and will leave her because he does not love her. |
| Deathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind (Poem 1) by Sappho | Expresses the very human plea for help with a broken heart. The speaker, calls upon the goddess of love, Aphrodite, to come to her aid, and she promises that the lover will soon know love as intense as that suffered by the poet. |
| Some men say an army of horse (Poem 16) by Sappho | The poem is one of five surviving poems by Sappho which is about "the power of love". It expresses the speaker's desire for the absent Anactoria, praising her beauty. |
| He seems to me equal to gods (Poem 31) by Sappho | This poem is about feeling nervous or simply dumbfounded when near someone you love. She talks about her experience where her love sat beside her and she couldn't breathe or talk, her lips shake and her heart stops |
| Kypros/ herald came (Poem 44) by Sappho | Discusses characters from the Iliad, Hector and Andromache. Sappho explains how extravagant their wedding is, rather than the war, like the Iliad does. Most of her poems relate to love rather than war. |
| You came and I was crazy for you (Fragment 48) by Sappho | She crazy for someone and she’s missed them, but now they’re here and she’s calm and happy- could be related to fragment 31 |
| I don’t know what to do (Fragment 51) by Sappho | She doesn’t know what to do with her jealousy |
| Dead you will lie (Fragment 55) by Sappho | Sappho addresses a female rival. It is unclear whether their dispute was poetic or amatory. |
| I simply want to be dead (Poem 94) by Sappho | The sorrow two women feel of their parting |
| Sweet mother, I cannot work the loom (Fragment 102) By Sappho | Maybe refers to mother still being alive. Also, she may also like men. |
| Evening, you gather back (Fragment 104A) by Sappho | The evening star will bring things that are apart, together |
| As the sweetapple reddens (Fragment 105A) by Sappho | Things in life that are unreachable, we desire anyways |
| Like the hyacinth (Fragment 105B) by Sappho | Sometimes we are not aware of the things that we have in life, especially those that are right in front of us. I guess you can also say that it is trying to tell us that it is those that we love who we hurt the most. |
| Blest bridegroom (Fragment 112) by Sappho | She has married the person she wanted, be grateful you received this honor. |
| Eros the melter of limbs (Fragment 130) by Sappho | Desire again overcomes Sappho and disrupts her body by causing her to go limp with lust. |
| Moon has set (Poem 168B) by Sappho | She lies alone and awake watching the moon and stars pass. |
| The New Sappho by Sappho | Sappho expresses how she is sad she can no longer dance and sing with the younger woman because of her age |
| Poem 31 | He seems to me equal to gods by Sappho |
| Poem 44 | Kypros/ herald came by Sappho |
| Poem 1 | Deathless Aphrodite of the spangles mind by Sappho |
| Poem 16 | Some men say and army of horse by Sappho |
| Fragment 48 | You came and I was crazy for you by Sappho |
| Fragment 51 | Dead you will lie by Sappho |
| Poem 94 | I simply want to be dead by Sappho |
| Fragment 102 | Sweet Mother, I cannot work the loom by Sappho |
| Fragment 104A | Evening, you gather back |
| Fragment 105A | As the sweetapple reddens by Sappho |
| Fragment 105B | Like the hyacinth by Sappho |
| Fragment 112 | Blest Bridegroom by Sappho |
| Fragment 130 | Eros the melter of limbs by Sappho |
| Poem 168B | Moon has set by Sappho |
| Tale of Sinuhe- Shinue feels the need to return him to be buried and writes to King Sesostris. Sesostris responds graciously and accepts Shinue’s plea to return home to be buried. | "Then said His Majesty: "Nay, but he shall not fear, he shall not dread. For he shall be a Companion among the magistrates, he shall be set in the midst of the nobles. Get you gone to the Chamber of Adornment to wait upon him."" |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh- Enkidu speaks these lines in Tablet II, as he and Gilgamesh prepare to invade the forbidden Cedar Forest and fight the demon Humbaba | "Humbaba’s mouth is fire; his roar the floodwater; his breath is death. Enlil made him guardian of the Cedar Forest, to frighten off the mortal who would venture there. But who would venture there?" —Tablet II |
| Genesis, The Hebrew Bible- In the garden, Eve encounters a crafty serpent who convinces her to eat the tree’s forbidden fruit, assuring her that she will not suffer if she does so | "But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." " |
| The Odyssey | By Homer |
| The Odyssey by Homer- With these words the Odyssey begins. The poet asks for inspiration from the Muse and imagines her singing through him. | "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." |
| Oedipus the King | By sophocles |
| Oedipus the King by Sophocles-Self-assured lines, spoken by Jocasta, wherein she treats incest with a startling lightness that will come back to haunt her. | "Fear? What should a man fear? It’s all chance, chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth can see a day ahead, groping through the dark. Better to live at random, best we can. And as for this marriage with your mother—have no fear." |
| Oedipus the King of Sophocles- Because of his status and haughtiness, Oedipus assumes that all accusations against him are false and must be intended as a threat to his power. | "To approach my doors, thou brazen-faced rogue, My murderer and the filcher of my crown? Come, answer this, didst thou detect in me Some touch of cowardice or witlessness, That made thee undertake this enterprise?" |
| Works & Days and Theogony | By Hesoid |
| Works & Days by Hesoid- The part of Hesiod’s message that exalts justice and deprecates hubris is addressed to the leaders of his community and to Perses, urging him to gain his livelihood through strenuous and persistent work | “So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing those who do not hold the gods in awe...but grind each other down with crooked judgements” |
| Theogony by Hesoid- This was part of the text that discussed the third generation, and how Zeus fought for power | "It is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus." |
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