click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
SSAW - 2
Ch. 3 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Xenia | gift exchange and guest-friendship among aristocrats |
| "Always to be the best and to be eminent beyond others" | Self explanatory |
| arete | especial skill or excellence |
| time | honor |
| hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence |
| agon | contest |
| Patroklos | friend of Achilles who died at Troy (Illiad) |
| Achilles | hero of the Illiad |
| hoi polloi | "the many" referring to the common not aristocrat |
| Agememnon | "best of spearmen" |
| lump of pig iron | Achronism - inconsistency in the timeline - lump of iron in the bronze age? |
| kerdos | seeker of profit |
| kleos | glory (seeker of glory) |
| suitors | people watching |
| contest of the bow | contest to shoot arrow through sockets of axe-heads; for Penelopa and the kingdom |