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1
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What is the time period for the; Archaic Age

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800-480 BC

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What is the time period for the; Classical Age

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480-323 BC

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What is the time period for the; Hellenistic Age

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323-146 BC

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What is the time period for the; Regal Age

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7-6 Centuries BC

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What is the time period for the; Early Republic

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509 BC- early 1st Century BC

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What is the time period for the; Late Republic

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1st Century BC

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What is the time period for the; Early Imperial Age

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27 BC- 1st Century AD

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What is the time period for the; Mid- late Imperial Age

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2nd Century AD- 476 AD

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9
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Name the 3 Greek Time Periods

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Archaic Age
Classical Age
Hellenistic Age

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10
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Name the 6 Roman Time Periods

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Regal Age
Early Republic 
Late Republic
Early Imperial Age
Mid- late Imperial Age
Christian Age
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11
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Define; Magic

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Technique grounded in a belief in powers located in the human soul and in the universe outside ourselves (Luck)

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12
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Define; law of sympathy

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The magician acts out a procedure on models of the intended victim (Frazer)

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13
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Define; law of contact

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Things that have been in physical contact then act upon one another even at a distance (Frazer)

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14
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Define; Spiritual

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Non-physical, with no ethical connotations

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15
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Define; Spiritual creatures

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Gods, spirits, demons, diamonds and angles

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16
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Define; Daimones

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Spiritual beings, entities

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17
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Define; Material Magica

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Magical material

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18
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Define; Talismans

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Good luck charms

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19
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Define; Kolossos

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Figure/doll/poppet

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Define; Voces Mysticae (pl)
Vox Mystica (s)
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Magical words

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21
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Define; Charakteres

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Magical symbols

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22
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Define; Spells

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Spoken or written to provoke or challenge

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23
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Define; Aoroj

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People dead before their time

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24
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Define; Biothanatoi

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Dead by violence

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25
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Define; Agamoi

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Dead before marriage

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26
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Define; Ataphoi

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Dead without burial

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27
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Define; Rhizotomoi

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Professional herbalist

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28
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Define; Prophecy

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Receiving messages from God (divine revelation)

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29
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Define; Divination

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Functions to learn knowledge that otherwise would be inaccessible (past, present, future)

30
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Define; Scrying

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Crystal-gazing

31
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Define; Catoptromancy

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Mirror gazing

32
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Define; Hydromancy

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Water in a bowl gazing

33
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Define; Lecanomany

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Sounds made by dropping crystals into water

34
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Define; Necromancy

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Divination of dead people/omens

35
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Define; Astrology

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Interpretation and prognostication of events on earth, and of men’s characteristics and disposition (Tester)

36
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Define; Judicial

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Predicts from celestials or meteorological phenomena the future of the King/country

37
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Define; Horoscopic

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Character and fortune of an individual

38
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What is the Greek word for; Magic

39
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What is the Greek word for; priests and scholars of astrology and divination

40
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What is the Greek word for; The employment of drugs or potions

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Pharmakeia

41
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What is the Greek word for; Male poisoner/sorcerer/druggist

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Pharmakeus

42
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What is the Greek word for; Female poisoner/sorceress/witch

43
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What is the Greek word for; Wizardry or Witchcraft

44
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What is the Greek word for; Beggar priest

45
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What is the Greek word for; Curse tablets/binding spells

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Katodesmoi

46
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What is the Roman word for; science of magi= magic

47
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What is the Roman word for; Of or belonging to magic magical

48
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What is the Roman word for; Masculine- Magician, learned man

49
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What is the Roman word for; Feminie- Female magician, enchantress

50
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What is the Roman word for; Defixiones

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Curse Tablets/binding tablets

51
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What does the Direct binding formula do

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Acts directly upon the victim

52
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What does the Prayer formula do

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Gods or Daimones are involved

53
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What does the Simila similibus formula

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Pervasive analogy

54
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What is the Roman word for; Diviners, wise men, fortune-tellers

55
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What is the Roman word for; Magicians and enchanters

56
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What is the Roman word for; Poisoner/sorcerers/wizards

57
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What is the Roman word for; Foretellers/Seers/Soothsayers/Prophets

58
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What is the Roman word for; Diviners/wise women/fortune-teller/soothsayer

59
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What is the Roman word for; Women who knew more

60
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What is the Roman word for; Female Diviners

61
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What is the Roman word for; Female Foretellers/seers/soothsayers/prophets

62
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What is the Roman word for; Brewers of potion

63
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What is the Roman word for; Women with the power to change themselves into animals

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Versipelles

64
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What is the GMP

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Body of papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt containing a variety of magical spells

65
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What is the Greek word for magical formulas?

66
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What’s the work for ghosts

67
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What’s the word for shades or spirits of the restless

68
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What’s the word for the shades

69
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What is the word for when a part is named, the whole it belongs too makes sense

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Synecdoche

70
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Define Archetypes

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Used to explain unconscious and conscious psychic content- universal image that can change over time

71
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Define fairy tale

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Narratives set in the distant past of events that would be impossible in the real world

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