Lit 61 |
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 |