European Literature Flashcards
What are the 2 books created during the Archaic Times?
Bible and Illiad and Odyssey
How many books are in the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible?
39 (old), 27 (new)
True or False: Illiad and Odyssey was composed through Oral tradition
True
This book chronicled the destinies of Greek and heroes
Illiad and Odyssey
He is the main hero of Iliad during the Trijan war; his heel was his weakness
ACHILLES
He experienced 10 years struggle to return home after the war
Odysseus
Who wrote the 2 important archaic texts during Archaic times?
Hesiod
What are the 2 important archaic texts?
Theogony - myths of God
Works and Days - days of present life
What blossomed during classical times? And what specific centuries
Greek drama - 5th and 4th century BCE
Playwrights of what genre did flourish during the Classical Times?
Comedy and tragedy
Who wrote “The republic” and also a student of Socrates
PLATO
He is a student of Plato
Aristotle
He is Alexander the Great’s teacher
Aristotle
They preserved the legacy of Greek culture and modeled their empire and civilizations after the Greeks
Romans
When did Rome became an empire?
27 BC
Who is the ruler of the Roman empire who needed a literary work that would embody Rome’s greatness ?
Augustus Caesar
Was renowned for Aenid, an epic modeled on Iliad and Odyssey
Virgil
Wrote a very long narrative poem entitled “The Metamorphoses”
Ovid
A very long narrative poem that was written by Ovid
The Metamorphoses
It is an epic modeled on Iliad and Odyssey
Aeneid
What happened during the Medieval Period
Fall of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire
These 2 religions rose to become political, social, and cultural institutions
Christianity and Islam
2 books that was written by St. Augustine that remain spiritual pillars to this day
The Confessions and City of God
Wrote the Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
It envisions a Christian soul’s journey in the afterlife
Divine Comedy
Warrior cultures traced their roots to the _______ epics
Homeric
He is the father of English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer
This is the relationship between texts where one text refers to, quotes, or alludes to another text.
Intertextuality
