2nd Quarter Flashcards
1 of the 12 Olympians
_______: (Jove) (Jupiter)
- god of the sky
-eagle
- ruler of the 12 Olympians
- most powerful
- weapon: thunderbolt
- husband & brother of Hera (always tension)
- infamous for affairs
- overthrew father (Cronus) : Uranus : ate children as wife Rhea birthed them
- Rhea tricks Cronus into swallowing a rock
Zeus
________: Juno
- queen of Gods
- goddess of marriage & childbirth
- jealous of Zeus’s affairs they fight a lot
Hera
_______: Neptune
- god of the sea
- brother of Zeus
- weapon : trident
- Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades drew lots for which portion of the world to rule.
Poseidon
________: (Bacchus)
- only god born of a mortal woman
- son of Zeus and Semele (not Hera’s son)
- god of wine & revelry (youthfulness)
Dionysus
__________
- god of music, arts, healing, light
- sometimes called “Phoebus _________”, “radiant”
- son of Zeus and Lito
- twin brother : Artemis
- daily: drives sun across sky
- Pictured holding lyre
- pray to ___ or muses
Apollo
_______(Diana)
- virgin goddess of hunt
- daughter of Zeus and Leto
- twin sister to Apollo
- seen as in forest with deer, conservative
- dying peacefully: shot by Artemis silver arrow
- demands purity
Artemis
__________( Minerva)
- goddess of wisdom (virgin)
- daughter of Zeus : popped out of his head in full armor
- powerful ?…
- “Pallas Athena” Pallas white?
- olive tree : symbol
Athena
_______( Mars)
- god of war
- son of Zeus and Hera
- Greeks often pray to him
- murderous, bloodthirsty, coward
- loses to Diomedes( a mortal)
Ares
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
-goddess of love
- 2 accounts of birth
1.) daughter of Zeus and Dione
Or
2.) sprung from sea after Cronus castrated his father Uranus & threw his genitals in the sea.
- fickle , immodest, voluptuous, ?
- unfaithful wife of HephaestusAphrodite
_____________ (Vulcan)
- God of fire and forge
- son of Zeus and Hera
- crippled and ugly. Hera threw him from Mount Olympus
- sided with Hera over Zeus, Zeus threw him from Olympus
- husband of Aphrodite
- she is unfaithful to him
Hephaestus
_________(Ceres)
- goddess of fertility & agricultural (think “cereal)
- sister of Zeus
- mother Persephone, Queen of underworld
- Hades kidnaps her. She ate food of underworld so she must stay, when she walks flowers grow
- winter: when she’s in underworld plants die
- Hades kidnaps her. She ate food of underworld so she must stay, when she walks flowers grow
Demeter
________(Pluto)
- god of underworld (rarely leaves it)
- Cerberus: 3 headed dog. Guards underworld
- greedy and concerned with increasing his subjects
- husband to Persephone
Hades
Plot (_______)
A. The “action” or the “structure of incidents.”
B. Actions should be logical, naturally following the actions that precede the.
Mythos
Character (_____)
A. Main characters should be
I. Good (audiences don’t like it when villains win)
II. Appropriate (a wise character probably won’t be young)
III. consistent
1.) plays should be driven not by who the characters are, but what they do.
2.) “consistently inconsistent”
Ethos
Theme (_______)
Dianoia
Diction (_______)
-the quality of speech. We might call this the “dialogue.”
Lexis
_____ always came back to “I know I know nothing” . This made him wise because he knew he wasn’t wise
- philosophy : love of WISDOM
Socrates
__________ by SHAKESPHERE
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hades (Pluto)
- god of underworld
- greedy & concerned with increasing his subjects
- husband to Persephone
- rarely leaves underworld
- 3 headed dog ________ , guards underworld
Cerberus
_____ made in image of man not God.
NAGATIVES
- fallible
- moral
- fight amongst ???
POSITIVES
- glorified humans
- powerful, wise, strong, craft, beautiful
Greek pantheon
What are the 3 different types of irony?
Irony: the effect created by the contradiction between what is said to be known to be true.
VERBAL irony: when what is said is different from what is known to be true. * words ex : sarcasm
SITUATIONAL irony: when what happens is different from what was intended
DRAMATIC irony: when the audience knows something a character doesn’t
_________
-“I know I know nothing” (made him wise because he knew he wasn’t wise, others thought they were wise they weren’t) “know thyself”
“ my unexamined life is not worth living”
.???believed in humility and asking questions. Pagan but believed in finding truth ??
Socrates
_______
- condemned to death at ???
- for CORRUPTING ATHENIAN YOUTH
- because of questions
- he wanted them to DISCOVER NOT ASSUME
- “to have ones ignorance expose…”
- many infuriated by not knowing wanted him gone.
Trial of Socrates
TRIAL OF SOCRATES
- condemned to death at ???
- For ________
- because of questions
- he wanted them to ______ NOT ________
- “to have ones ignorance expose…”
- many infuriated by not knowing wanted him gone.
Corrupting Athenian youth
Discover not assume
___________
- a defense speech at trial
- punishment options: drink hemlock or leave
- why he must die and his death was injustice: wanted to silence him without death p.
He said: kill me or leave me be
he would not leave because that would go against what he lived/worked for - to leave would be “to let his enemies harm him” “to leave to undo all he had done”important
-like Christian martyr dying for what you believe
Apology of Socrates
APOLOGY OF SOCRATES
- a ________ at trial
- punishment options: ______ or ____
-why he must die and his death was injustice: wanted to silence him without death p.
He said: kill me or leave me be
he would not leave because that would go against what he lived/worked for - to leave would be “to let his enemies harm him” “to leave to undo all he had done”important
-like Christian martyr dying for what you believe
Defense speech
Drink hemlock or leave
APOLOGY OF SOCRATES
- a defense speech at trial
- punishment options: drink hemlock or leave
- why he must die and his death was injustice: wanted to SILENCE HIM WITHOUT DEATH p.
He said: ______ or _______
he would not leave because that would go against what he lived/worked for - to leave would be “to let his enemies harm him” “to leave to undo all he had done”important
-like Christian martyr dying for what you believe
Kill me or leave me be
_______
- student of Socrates (429-347)
-beginning of GOLDEN AGE OF ATHENS (5th unt)
- sees Socrates executed
- THE ACADEMY (385 BC)
-teaches there
- follows Socrates : believed in truth and PURSUING IT
Works: THE ALLEGORY OF MY CAVE
Alegory: story with things symbolizing other things ex:pilgrims progress *we are all in a cave, shadows on walls living in darkness, we don’t know truth if someone escapes sees where shadows come from, tell others cave dwellers
- people don’t like hearing it
- cave dwellers kill the person saying they live in darkness ex: Christ
Plato
Platon
- student of Socrates (429-347)
-beginning of _____- (5th unt)
- sees Socrates executed
- THE ACADEMY (385 BC)
-teaches there
- follows Socrates : believed in truth and PURSUING IT
Works: THE ALLEGORY OF MY CAVE
Alegory: story with things symbolizing other things ex:pilgrims progress *we are all in a cave, shadows on walls living in darkness, we don’t know truth if someone escapes sees where shadows come from, tell others cave dwellers
- people don’t like hearing it
- cave dwellers kill the person saying they live in darkness ex: Christ
Golden Age of Athens
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ -ideal society? -conversation -Socratic dialogue *what is a just many BY PLATO
The Republic
______: talks about poetry
BY PLATO
Book X (10)
_____
- ideal forms exist in ideal world
- ??? Have particulars of those ideals
- ex: pic of German shelpherd-kid says puppy dog
- Great Dane, puppy dog
* calls them all puppy dogs - 2 year old knows difference of cats and chihuahuas. How does he know?
- Plato: in ideal world there is an ideal dog a child knows instinctively.
Platonic Idealism
PLATONIC IDEALISM
- ideal forms exist in ideal world
- ??? Have particulars of those ideals
- ex: Pic of German Shepherd, ________
- Great Dane, puppy dog
* calls them all puppy dogs - 2 year old knows difference of cats and chihuahuas. How does he know?
- Plato: in ideal world there is an ideal dog a child knows instinctively.
Puppy dog
Melody (______)
- relating to the Chorus in Greek drama. A contemporary parallel might be soundtrack.
Melos
Spectacle (_______)
-the visuals of a play. Aristotle saw this as the least important:a movie might have beautiful costumes but bad acting and a bad storyline.
Opsis
_________ - 384-322BC
Particulars
-focus on the skillfulness of poetry telling lies
Poetics
Aristotle
What was Plato concerned about?
Ideals & universals
Byron Magee talks to Mylos Burnyeat about Plato
- _______________. (Dialogue)
- Republic :reads like a play, conversations
Socratic method
Byron Magee talks to Mylos Burnyeat about Plato
- SOCRATIC METHOD (______)
- Republic :reads like a play, conversations
Dialog
Aristotle : P…….
Particulars
ARISTOTLES POETICS
6 elements of tragedy
PLOT(mythos) important,should be logical, action
CHARACTER (ethos), should be good, appropriate, consistent
THEME (dianoia)
DICTION (lexis) quality of speech
MELODY (Melos) relation to the chorus
SPECTACLE (opsis) visuals of the play
*PC THE DICky MEan Snake
What were Aristotle’s Unities
Unity of TIME: a short period of time 3 hours –> 3 hours
Unity of PLACE: 1 setting
Unity of ACTION: 1 central plot beginning middle and end. Most important
