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Hamartia

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Tragic flaw, the error frailty, or mistaken udgment through which the fortunes of a hero of a tradegy are reversed

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or self confidence

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Tragic universe

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Tragedy creates a special kind of universe composed of fated and non fated elements conflict between the hero and the universe is the heart of a tragic universe

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Tragic hero

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Important person not perfect
Person of high character must face destiny with courage nobility and rebellion against the implacable universe
Painfully aware of the frailty of his or her flesh and will
Ultimate fate is a combo of bad luck and bad decisions

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Tragic vision

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Have question about matters that are unresolvable and he will realize that through a combo of fate and errors he will inevitably suffer and die, brought to the limit of his potential and will, actively seek value in the context of evil and suffering

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Reversal

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The moment a heros fortune changes from good to bad

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Recognition

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A new awareness on the part of the hero that results in decisive change in the course of the characters

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Catastrophe

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The tragic failure of the death or the hero, the final presentation of the nobility of the hero, and usually followed by Glimpse of restored order

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Catharsis

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“Change” the purge at the end

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Dramatic irony

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A plot devise in which the audience or readers knowledge of events or individuals surpasses that of the characters

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The chorus

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The people that explain what happens, like a narrator

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Dionysian festival

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One a year in Greece when everybody celebrates for one by going to plays

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Amphitheater

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Area that held people during plays in Ancient Greece

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Thespis

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Wanted more from a Dionysian festival so added actor and the chorus sang about the actor then more actors were added

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Aristotle and the poetics

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Aristotle wrote the poetics, and the poetics explained what makes tragedies great such as tragic hero

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The story of Teiresias

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Most famous prophet in Greek mythology, (ZEUS cheated on HERA) Zeus and Hera disagreeing about who gets more pleasure out of sex, so Zeus takes them to a village close to Thebes where someone can answer the question (Teiresias) has been both a man and a woman (Tiresias: walks through field and stomps on two magical snakes makes him a woman, 15 years, stomps on snakes again and turns to man) woman get more pleasure, and Tiresias turns blind and prophet

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Aphrodite, Paris. Helen, Achilles, Hector

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Use in Iliad, show concepts like burial, heroic code and tragedy. Achilles ends in dragging hector around and violates the code of burying people properly and defies the gods by doing this.

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Who is worship at the Dionysian festival?

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Dionysus

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Oedipus and the sphinx

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Version of the oracle that tells Oedipus his prophecy

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Aphrodisiac

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Something that turns you on, comes from Aphrodite the goddess

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Bacchanalia

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A wild party involving alcohol, comes from Bachuss a god of wine

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Halcyon

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Days that are calm, comes from myth and means calm

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Hermetic

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Comes from Hermes, god of medicine. Means to be sealed so that no disease or bacteria can get in.

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Martial

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Anything that is called military is called this because Mars is roman god of war. Warlike.

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Mercurial

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Means bipolar, your up and then your down. Comes from Mercury, god of personality who was bipolar (angry, happy, and sad).

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Narcissistic

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Elf loves, comes from Greek myth. A boy who walks up to a pond and theses his reflection then falls in love with his own reflection and doesn’t want to leave so he dies staring at his own reflection. Then a flower grew where he died.

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Oedipal

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Comes from Oedipus, when a boy falls in love with his mom and he loves his mom too much

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Platonic

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Comes from Plato, means someone has a loving relationship but not in a romantic way.

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Sisyphean

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An impossible task that never ends. Comes from myth of Sisyphus, the person that had to push a huge rock up a big hill over and over again.

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Venereal

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A sexually transmitted disease, a Greek and roman myth with a character names Venus.

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Muse

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Inspiration, comes from Muses.

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Chronological

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Time, comes from father of time.

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Spartan

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Sparta is an Ancient Greek city and it means tough and simple.

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Thespian

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An actor, comes from Theseus who invented acting

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What is Greek Heroic code ?

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The code (courage, loyalty, decency) Greeks believe they would get eternal life if they followed the heroic code, if they didn’t believe in afterlife they thought would just go to the underworld. If you weren’t buried properly, you would suffer, but if you were you would be let into the underworld, but not suffer there.

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Arête

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A Skill / virtue that they believed everyone had and you were supposed to make better, and when they introduced eachother they would include there arête

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Aristeia

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A defining moment when your arête is tested

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Ate

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God of blindness, Greeks believe figuratively you would stop seeing morality & go blind, in your aristeia you would vulnerable and he might take advantage of you

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Heroic names in Greek storytelling

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Name, Son of …, arete

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Who usually take care of the burial?

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Relatives of the deceased, especially women

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Why is a proper burial important?

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So they can pass into the underworld

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What are the elements of a proper burial?

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The prothesis (laying out of the body)
Ekphora (funeral procession)
Interment or cremation of the body. Know the stuff in parenthesis.

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What does Odesseus encounter with elpenor reveal about Greek burial?

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Elpenor didn’t get to leave Limbo because Odysseus didn’t bury him, which made elpenor tell Odysseus he was going to haunt If he didn’t bury him, which leads to us believe that the Greeks believed that if they didn’t do justice to the dead they would haunted

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What does Achilles encounter with the ghost of Patroclus reveal about Greek burial?

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He haunts Achilles because he wants to cross the river into the underworld and out limbo

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Oracle at Delphi

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prophet told Oedipus he would marry his mom and kill his dad

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Oedipus and the sphinx

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Oedipus answered the sphinx riddle and became king of Thebes

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Dionysus is worshiped in the Dionysian festival

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Dionysus: Greek god of pleasure, Greeks liked him and celebrated in the Dionysian festival once a year by going to plays

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Sophocles

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Author of Antigone

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Thebes

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A village where Oedipus took over and Antigone grew up as a princess

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Oedipus

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Antigone’s father who was traded at birth from Corinth to Thebes, then was fated to marry his mom and kill his dad so he went on a life journey and killed his dad on the way to Thebes, became king of Thebes, found out that his prophecy came true and walked into the desert to die

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Creon

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King of Thebes after Oedipus, that said Polyneices couldn’t be buried and almost Antigone

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Jocasta (iocasta)

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Daughter of menosius, mother and wife of Oedipus. She kills herself.

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Antigone

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Princess of Thebes, buried her brother Polyneices and got sent to a cave by creon, hung herself

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Ismene

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Antigone’s sister, Creons niece, who is the only one alive in the end besides Creon. But she wants to die.

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Haimon (haemone)

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Antigone’s fiancé, creon’s son, the one who first broke into Antigone’s tomb and found her dead and stabbed herself

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Eteocles

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King of Thebes, son of Oedipus and either Jocasta of Euryganeia, defended Thebes and was killed by brother Polyneices, creon declares hero because he defends Thebes and get a warriors burial

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Polyneices

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The oldest son of Oedipus, their was a
a curse put on them by there dad Oedipus so they didn’t rule peacefully, fought each other, killed each other in battle for the control of Thebes

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The nurse

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Cares for Oedipus daughters, tradition figure in Greek drama

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The chorus

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Narrator and commentator, frames the play with prologue and epilogue, introduces the action of characters under the sign of fatality

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Eurydice

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Creon’s wife, who’s only function is to knit in her room until it’s her time to die

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Sentry

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Thebe’s guards. Suppose to be weak minded people who only care about themselves and do whatever to save themselves.

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Know quotes from Iliad and odyssey. We use them to understand the ideas of Greek burial.

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Read quotes again.

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Best tragedies end in?

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Catastrophe. Tragedies made people better, you get stuff out of them.

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Who are Oedipus’ sons?

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Eteocles and Polyneices

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What are some themes in Antigone?

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Burial rights, themes of gods and themes of man, who follows the gods laws VS. mans laws

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