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English Midterm Study Guide Flashcards

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Ethics

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nature of the soul

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Politics

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cure of the soul

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Rhetoric

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persuasion of the soul

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Poetics

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images that move the soul

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Extreme of Justice

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truly just man who appears unjust

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Extreme of unjustice

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unjust man who appears just

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Xenia

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Greek custom of hospitality; guest-host relationship

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Kleos

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Undying glory

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Cephalus

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speaking the truth and paying back what is owed

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Polymarchus

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doing good to friends and harming enemies

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Thrasymachus

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the advantage of the stronger

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rule of one
(love)
rule of few
(virtue)
rule of many
(liberty)

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benefit of all benefits of ruler (corrupt)
monoarchy tryanny

aristocracy oligarchy

polity democracy

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City of utmost nessessity

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one man, one art, basic bodily needs

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Feverish city

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luxuries added; not just; need to be purged

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Purged city

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must educate the guardians so they don’t enslave the people

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rulers

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wisdom

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guardians

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courage

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moneymakers

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moderation

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everyone minds his own business

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justice

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Why is justice good in itself?

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  1. Just city and individual are wise, courageous, moderate, and just.
  2. Each part if the city and soul mind its own business
  3. Just soul and city are health and harmonious
  4. unjust city is unhealthy
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Why a person can’t establish just city an earth

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1.Philosophers must rule, but he don’t want to; he must be forced
2. If a philosopher rules you no longer have one man art
3. Rulers must lie – Myth of the metals – yet philosophers hate lies
4. Eugenics - reproduction must be controlled
5. Poets are no longer allowed in the city; Plato is a poet
6. Everyone over the age 10 has to leave the city
7. It has censorship

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Myth of the Metals

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All people are born on Earth and earth is their mother and their all brothers. Gods put gold in the souls of ruler. Gods put silver in the souls of the guardians.
God put bronze and iron in souls of Farmers and craftsmen. Because of this no one should try to be a different class.

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What is the allegory of the ship of state

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The city or state is like a ship.The sailors (politicans) are arguing over who should rule. The ship owner is in competent. The star gazer (philosopher) is the only one competent sailors don’t think he is capable because he is always looking at the stars.

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What are the crimes of the suitors in The Odyssey

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Lack of respect for the prophets (and the gods)
Lack of respect of the elderly
Lack of respect for the xenia

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What are the characteristics of Epic and apply them to The Iliad and the Odyssey

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Invocation of the muse poets ask Muse to inspire him to write a poem

Catalogue list of ships from different cities and their leaders

presence of Supernatural Athena Zeus and hair all involved directly in the war

begins in Medias res Begins the 9th year of the war in the middle of things

lofty or Elegant Style

stock epithets white armed Hera swift-footed Achilles

significant to a nation’s history Trojan War fall of Troy

long narrative poem dealing with a hero or Journey treasure more Achilles Hector Etc
Odysseus’s journey home

epic simile Odyssey Odysseus sharing his bow compared to a musician playing a lyre

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What are the two fates of Achilles?

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If you return to battle he will have a short life with honor

if he goes home he will have a long life but he will not be remembered

he chose short life with Glory

Odysseus meets Achilles in the underworld in the middle of the Odyssey chiastic pattern always makes the middle of the story the most significant part

Achilles said that he better to live and be the slave of the poorest farmer then forte all the dead

Homer appears to criticize the values of the kelos and his Society

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