Chapter 15 Flashcards
Academy
place of learning
- akademia was a grove near Athens named for Akademos
Draconian
extremely severe
- Draco compiled first legal code for Athens, where even minor offenses carried harsh penalties
ostracism
banishment or exclusion from a group or society
- votes inscribed on ostrakons (piece of pottery) name men considered to be dangerous to democracy, man with the highest votes was sent into exile for 10 years
laconic
using few words, concise
- Laconian people were known to be of few words
Pyrrhic victory
a victory won at too great a cost
- Pyrrhus (military commander) defeated the romans but suffered huge losses
Devils advocate
expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke debate
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sword of damocles
a constantly threatening disaster (live wit this sword of damocles hanging over your head, knowing that you carry the virus for a deadly disease)
Olympic games
first in 776 BC, in honour of Zeus, at olympia (greece)
motoo: citius altius fortius (faster higher stronger)
spartan
(Adjetcitve) something showing austerity (sternness) or a lack of comfort/luxurry
sybarite
a person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury
solecism
grmaatical blunder or instance of incorrect behaviour
achilles heel
a weakness or vulnerable point
the Theogony
Hesiod’s poem: gives account of creation of the world, birth of the gods, and origin of man
King god, god of lightning and thunder
Zeus (greek) and Jupiter
Wife of zeus, goddess of marriage
Hera and Juno
God of the sea and earthquakes
Poseidon and Neptune
Goddess of love and sexuality
Aphrodite and Venus
4 primal entities
Chaos, Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (dark hell hole), Eros (love, procreative force)
Aphrodite’s son, amkes people fall in love
eros and cupid
god of war
ares and mars
goddess of wisdom and skill in warfare & handicraft
athene and minerva
god of metalwork
hephaestus and vulcan
goddess of hunting and chastity
artemis and diana
god of music, prophecy, and intellect
apollo and apolla
nine goddesses of inspiration
muses
messenger god, god of travellers and thieves
hermes and mercury
goddess of the rainbow
iris
goddess of agriculture
demeter and ceres
god of wine
dionysus and bacchus
god of the underworld
hades and pluto
martial
relating to fighting/war
vnereal
relating to sexual desire or intercourse
mercurial
volatile; subject to sudden/unpredictable changes of mood or mind
to muse
to think
Bacchanalia
a drunken party
aphrodisiac
arousing sexual desire
jovial
happy
cupidity
greed
cosmography
description of the features of the unvierse
iridescence
shining with all the colours of the rainbow
tantalize
tease
under the aegis of
with the protection or sponsorhip
Sisyphean task
endless and frustrating
Herculean task
very difficult
Amazons
a race of female warriors
Adonis
beautiful youth who fell in love with his own image
King Midas
king who wished that everything he touched would turn to gold
Oedipus
protagonist of a greek tragedy who killed his father, married his mother
Spartans
greeks known for rigid self-discipline
Homer’s epic poems
Iliad (account of cause of Greek-Trojan war), Odyssey (story of journey home of Odysseus)
work like a trojan
to work very hard
achilles’ heel
a weakness
a Cassandra
one who predicts misfortune but is not believed
mentor
a wise and trusted advisor
odyssey
a long adventure-filled journey
judgement of Paris
a decision that causes a lot of trouble
face that launched a thousand ships
Helen of Troy (beauty so great it launched..)
to hector
harass or bully
between Scylla and Charybdis
between 2 dangers which must be avoided
siren
an enticing woman
