Classics - Test 1 Flashcards
divine myth
stories about the gods that explain in many ways why the world is the way it is
legend
stories that involve heroes and heroines narrate events of human past
folktales
stories with ordinary people/animals as the main characters where the stories justify customary patterns of behavior
etiological tale
- explains the causes that brought he world into existence
- explains why things are and how they came to be
folktale motifs
specific, common recurrence of themes in multiple works across the world that can be recombined indefinitely
Boeotia
ancient Thebes
Attica
ancient Athens
Laconia
ancient Sparta
Greek Dark Age
1200 - 800 BC
- collapse of Mycenaean civilization
- stronger weapons formed
Archaic Period
800 - 480 BC
- renewal of large scale building/trade increase
- founding of Olympic Games
- Greek alphabet (more adapted than invented)
Homer
750 BC
wrote Iliad and Odyssey
Hesiod
700 BC
wrote Theogony
Classical Period
480 - 323 BC
- Attic Tragedy
- Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles
Hellenistic Period
323 - 31 BC
- Apollonius –> Argonautica
Imperial/ Roman Period
31 BC - AD 476
- Vergil (Aeneid)
- Ovid (Metamorphoses)
etymology
original/ true meaning of a word
cognates
words that arise from the same origin
- shared parent language called proto-indo-european
Ancient Greek dialects
Aeolic - Lesbos
Ionic - Athens, Chios, Miletus
Doric - Sparta
Bronze Age
3000 - 1200 BC
- Minoans on Crete
- greek speakers on Greece in 2000 BC
- Linear A - writing left by Minoans
- Linear B - non-alphabetic script deciphered in 1950s by Ventris
- many legends seem to be set in late Bronze Age
pederasty
love for boys
Etruscans
responsible for the adaptation of alphabet
- gave it to romans who passed it to the greeks
Sumerians
people of southern mesopotamia
- created first city-states