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Stack #83002
| Lit 61 |
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| Agape |
| non-sexual love (god love) |
| agon |
| in competition |
| aitiology |
| study of birth of things |
| akkadian |
| language Gil. was written down in |
| aletheia |
| truth/opposite of obvlivion |
| allegory |
| symbolism, representation such as Power and Violence in PB |
| amphora |
| wine vessel |
| anagnorosis |
| dramatic realization |
| analepsis |
| looking back |
| andron |
| prophecy? |
| anthromorphic |
| human characteristics |
| aphostrophe |
| addressing something non-human |
| apotheosis |
| becoming a god |
| apotropaic device |
| intended to ward off evil (gorgons head) |
| arche |
| beginning |
| arete |
| excellence in deeds and speech |
| Ares |
| God of war |
| aristophanes |
| speaker in symposium |
| autocthony |
| born from 1 (earth) |
| Aurthur Evans |
| Archeologist -- Minos' palace |
| Authorial "I" |
| Herodotus referring to himself |
| autopsy |
| eye witnessing |
| Barbarians |
| anyone who doesnt speak greek |
| Battle of Thermopylae |
| Hot gates 480 BCE |
| Bia |
| Violence |
| Black figure vase |
| People are black |
| Castration complex |
| Freud medusa |
| catharsis |
| cleansing, purging of pity and fear |
| cedar forest |
| where humbaba lives |
| choregos |
| leader of chorus/patron of chorus |
| choronos |
| leader of titans/ father of zeus/time |
| combat tale |
| mytheme |
| cosmology |
| origins of the universe |
| cuneiform |
| system of writing for Gil. 3000 BCE |
| Cylinder seal |
| ancient stamp |
| dactyllic hexameter |
| epic meter |
| Daedalus |
| Made bull outfit (ultimate engineer) |
| deus-ex-machina |
| god machine (crane from the theater) |
| didactic |
| learning to teach |
| eccyclema |
| platform that was wheeled out to show dead people etc. |
| dramatic date vs. date of comp. |
| when performed vs. when performed |
| dramatic personae |
| cast of play |
| dyadic |
| dual (maenads male/female binary oppositions) |
| Darius |
| father of xerxes, persian emperor |
| ecphrasis |
| artistic description that defies material bounds (achilles' shield) |
| eidos |
| form |
| epinicia |
| pindar's ode for athletes |
| epiphany |
| sudden realization |
| epistemology |
| how knowledge is produced |
| epithet |
| GRAY EYED athena |
| Epos |
| epic poem |
| Eros |
| god of erotic love son of aphrodite |
| eschatology |
| study of hte afterlife |
| father of history |
| herodotus |
| form, content, context |
| the entire class |
| formulae |
| repetition in an epic |
| genos |
| family line |
| gorgons |
| medusa |
| gymnastike |
| physical ed |
| hades |
| underworld, zeus' bro |
| hamartia |
| missing of the markqhegemony |
| hellene |
| the greeks |
| henotheism |
| one supreme god with lots of other gods |
| hegemony |
| superior dominant body |
| hieros gamos |
| divine marriage |
| Historeme |
| unit of history (like mytheme) |
| historia |
| inquiry |
| hubris |
| pride |
| hydra |
| lots of heads monster in hercules' travels |
| hypnos |
| sleep |
| iconography |
| recognizing by stuff -- hercules by lion skin |
| implied audience |
| who a piece was written for |
| in medias res |
| in the middle of |
| incipit |
| opening line |
| jesus seed |
| in the golden ray of shower over danae |
| kleos apithon |
| eternal fame |
| kourous |
| statue of ideal man |
| kratos |
| strength/power |
| Linear A/B |
| tablets w/texts from mycenae period -- linear A undeciphered |
| maenads |
| Dinonysus' followers |
| male gaze |
| how would men see it? men shouldnt see maenads do what they do |
| Menis |
| rage (god rage) |
| metonymy |
| part representing the whole (crown shows the kingdom) |
| mimesis |
| imitation |
| minos |
| king of crete |
| Muse |
| dauthers of memory |
| musike |
| humanitites in education |
| muthos |
| plot |
| mynenae |
| agamemnon's homeland |
| mystery religion |
| Dyonisiacs |
| Mystes |
| initiate of mystery cult |
| mythological exemplum |
| part of a myth used as an example -- pindar uses persus |
| Ninsun |
| mother goddess in gil. |
| nostos |
| homecoming, desire for home |
| paidea |
| education |
| pantheon |
| all gods |
| parodos |
| 1st choral ode |
| patronymic |
| ID'd by father |
| pelloponnesian wars |
| sparta vs. athens 431 - 404 BCE |
| Pedorasty |
| man boy love. man must show the boy how to think |
| Persephone |
| wife of hades |
| persian wars |
| 490 - 480 BCE |
| Phallic procession |
| carrying giant dicks for dionysus |
| pilos |
| knowledge/love of knowledge |
| polemos |
| foreign war |
| stasis |
| civil war |
| polis |
| city state |
| prolepsis |
| looking forward |
| protagoras |
| doctor in the symposium |
| psyche |
| soul? mental? |
| Pythian ode |
| pindar |
| reception theory |
| how things are recieved at the time |
| red figure vase |
| people are red |
| redactor |
| editor of works |
| thanatos |
| death |
| tetralogy |
| series of four |
| syncretism |
| merging of two |
| tautology |
| circular logic |
| telos |
| goal (telegodgy moving towards a goal) |
| sophrosyne |
| 1 aspect that stands for larger, broader aspect |
| Riddle of the Sphinx |
| Man |
| Satyr |
| half man, half animal -- sexually potent |
| satyr play |
| funny play to amuse people in a series |
| skene |
| background to the stage |
| Sophistic Movement |
| learn by discussion |
| Symposium |
| male drinking party |
| synecdouche |
| large thing standing for one smaller thing |
| techne |
| skill |
| teichoscopia |
| looking from a wall (helen) |
| thanatos |
| death instict, contrasted with Eros |
| Theatron |
| all the parts of theater |
| theocracy |
| priests rule in the name of a god (oracles speak for gods) |
| Thucydides |
| History of the peloponnesian wars |
| Thyrus |
| big ivy stick for the Maenads |
| Titanomachy |
| war of the titans |
| Uruk |
| homeland of Gil |
| Xenia |
| proper host/guest relations |
| Xerxes |
| persian emperor -- 300! |
| AD |
| Anno Domini |
| BC |
| Before christ |
| BCE |
| Before common era |
| CE |
| common era |
| Er |
| last book of plato's republic, good people should be rewarded after death & vice versa |
| orchestra |
| stage itself |
| Pisistratus |
| son of hippocrates, tyrant of athens |
| Polybus & Merope |
| who oedipus thinks his parents are |
| Oedipus means... |
| Swollen foot |
| Tuche |
| chance/fortune |
| Freud's interpretation of dreams |
| 1900 |
| Sophocles |
| 496-406 BCE, 18 1st prizes at dionysus festival |
| Plato's forms |
| Shihtzu & St. Bernard -- both dogs. partake in dogness. |
| trial of socrates |
| 399 BC |
| Friedrich Nietzche |
| Birth of Tragedy 1872 |
| Sparagmos |
| to tear into bits |
| omophagia |
| eating raw meat |
| vagina dentata |
| all-devouring female |
| Daphne |
| daughter of river god, she turns into laurel tree |
| Danae |
| shower of gold, eroticism |
| Plutarch |
| imitation is dangerous to life |
| iambic trimeter |
| aristotle says its closet to human speech |
| Plato |
| poetics, 4th century BCE |
| Heinrich Schliemann |
| man who discovered the "troy" site |
| Euthymia |
| patriot in the gut |
| Ganymede |
| boy chased by zeus. used by crete to justify pedarasty |
| Illiad |
| comitted to writing in 8th century BCE |
| Matis |
| goddess of mind swallowed by zeus -- athena born out of zeus' head |
| hubris |
| arrogance |
| Structuralism |
| Vladimir prop |
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