Final Flashcards
1
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Hellenism
A
Age of powerful Greek culture
2
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Hamartia
A
tragic flaw
3
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Hubris
A
pride that leads man to disregard warning or violate important law
4
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Tragic Hero
A
- good & evil
- moves us to pity & fear
- like us but better than we are
- suffers change in fortune because of mistaken act
5
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5 Qualities of a true leader
A
- weakness of heroic impulse
- learn to deal with adversity
- subordinate passion into duty
- confidence in mission when others don’t
- big picture
6
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deme
A
political division
7
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phratria
A
brotherhood
8
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phratreres
A
ushered a man into manhood
9
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princeps civitatis
A
first citizens of the state
10
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Aeschylus
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Agamemnon
- Men of violence do things that outrage justice, bring retribution, and provoke further acts of violence
- Past is always a menus to the future
- Invented the 2nd actor, reduced chorus, ‘protagonist’
11
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Sophocles
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Odeipus the King
- how humans affect own destiny
- invented 3rd actor, reduced chorus, use of props
- how men should be
12
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Euripides
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Medea
- universe is indifferent to good or bad deed and human suffering
- human beings must gain wisdom through suffering alone w/ out assistance
- invented agon
- how men are
13
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Aristophanes
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Lysistrata
14
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Sappho
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Poems
*analysis of love and how love makes us vulnerable and how vulnerability leads to knowledge
15
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Horace
A
Odes Book 1
- seize the day
- friendships and short life
- Greek love of beauty w/ Roman love of duty
16
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Virgil
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The Aeneid
-presents Romans as they should be
17
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Ovid
A
Amores, Metamorphosis
- human activities that are just as important as military, that don’t have to end with death
- presents Romans as they are
- mocks traditional Roman values
- adjusts poetic meter to mock epic and everything that epic stands for
18
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Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
- avoid distractions and concentrate on making correct moral choice
- individual must work for common good
- gods will provide
19
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Matthew
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New Testament
- avoid distractions and concentrate on making correct moral choice
- individual must work for common good
- gods will provide
20
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Agon
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rapid argument between two characters
21
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dike
A
justice
22
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heterai
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escort
23
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Lares
Penates
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(household gods)
- spirits of kitchen
- spirits of dead ancestors
24
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pietas
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duty
25
furor
passion
26
at regina
independent acts that start w/ same lines to indicate a tragic
27
paterfamilias
- head of family (godfather)
| - power was absolute
28
Stoic ethics
1. virtue = happiness
2. virtue = good
3. human beings should live in accordance w/ reason
29
Greek Tragedy
- heroic, but struggle of individual mind and will against gods, enemies, or fate
- attendance was civic duty
1. forums for public consideration of funamental issues of morality and politics
2. educate themselves to for self-gov tasks
* learn wisdom through suffering of others, making them better citizens
30
Comedy
-chorus
-break fourth wall
-plot is unrealistic
prominent men in society are ridiculed
-social & political purpose
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Lyric poetry
-preformed by amateurs; educated pple expected to compose and preform (after-dining singing)
32
fourth wall
address audience
33
Roman influences
-public works, roads, concrete, medicine, botony, government
