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Ae thing

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Aesc

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Oedipus shield

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Red with gold Mary on the back
Endless knot to describe his five virtues: five senses, five fingers, five wounds of Christ, five joys, and knight chivalric ideals

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P with triangle

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Thorn

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3

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Yogh

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P

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Wynn

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J crosses

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Eth

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Ae p 3 p j

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Anglo-Saxon runic characters futhorc the English adapted the Latin alphabet but they had no letters to represent the sounds these letters made so they carried them over

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Quest:

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A quest usually has a goal and an underlying purpose; what the character wants to achieve and what he needs to achieve and isn’t aware of
Quest ➡️state of ig➡️test trials and adv➡️recon if id➡️gain know and id

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Hamartia

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To miss the mark
Error due to inadequate know. Of circumstances
Error where the act is conscious and intentional but not deliberate
Defect in character

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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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Dike

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To seek revenge on a crime committed like Orestes

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Foil

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Orestes to tel

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Frame narrative

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A story within a story within a story
Oedipus:
Troy➡️Camelot➡️beheading game➡️exchange game➡️so on

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Kleos

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Eternal fame:
Can be reached by going to war, dike, and going on a quest 
Important to make yourself known 
Arête
Time 
Geras
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Archaic age

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Where: Asia Minor who: homer what: odyssey when: ca725bc
Marks a new rise in Greek civilization
Adopt Phoenician alphabet first Olympic Games in ca776

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750-725 BCE

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When the odyssey was composed believed to anyway

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MS BL COTTON NERO A.X

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The only manuscript we have of sggk 
Manuscript 
British library 
Cotton collection 
Nero head
Shelf a 
10th book
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Epic

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Long narrative poem about heroic action, usually of national import wherein the hero embodies his cultured ideals and is often a critique of these ideals

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Conventions of epic

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Statement of theme➡️invocation of muse➡️begins in media res➡️digression➡️epithets➡️hero embodies values➡️divinity

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Romance

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Story of adventure usually includes amorous episodes

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Conventions of romance

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Solitary quest of hero➡️central theme: love➡️central:female➡️supernatural➡️episodic➡️interiority➡️hero embodies the French chivalric ideal

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Tragedy

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An imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament; in the forms of action not of narrative; with incidents arousing pity and fear wherewith to accomplish it’s katharsis of such emotion

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King Arthur

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King of Camelot
He refuses to eat until someone gives him a story or challenges him
He is the first to take up the gk challenge
Wears a girdle on his arm at the end too to rep his own fallibility

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Green Knight/lord bertilak.

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Mysterious creature
All green with gold 
Ends up being bertilak and was sent by the old lady 
Foil to King Arthur 
Likes to play games
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Morgan la Faye

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Arthur’s half sister
Portrayed as the old woman in the castle
She is the one that controls the poem from beginning to end
Enemy of Camelot wants to cause trouble to King Arthur

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Lady bertilak

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Manipulative
Try’s to seduce Gawain
Acts like a little sloot

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Zeus

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God of heaven and all creature
God of hospitality
Admires Odysseus helps him get home
Athena’s father

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Poseidon

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Zeus brother
God of the sea
Father of Polyphemus and hates Odysseus for blinding his son

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Athena

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Goddess of war and wisdom and weaving
Patron goddess of Troy but abandons it after the judgement of Paris 
Guardian of Odysseus and telemakos
Helps disguise Odysseus 
Send tel on his quest
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Eurykleia

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Nursemaid of od and tel
Recognizes od by his scar in his thigh
Aids od and tel when they’re killing the suitors by locking the woman in the room and later telling who was faithful and who wasn’t
Loyal

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Eumaios

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Shepard if Odysseus 
Raised by Laertes as his own son sees od as his brother and tel as his nephew 
Hella loyal 
Helps od reclaim his throne 
Gives od shelter when he first returns
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Telmakhos

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Odysseus son, prince of Ithaca
Goes on his own quest in news of his father but also to gain his manhood
Later plots with od and Athena to take down the suitors

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Nestor

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King of pylos and former warrior in Trojan war
Knows little of od when tel visits him
Clever speaker

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Menelaos

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King of Sparta red haired king
Married to Helen
Ags brother led the Greeks into Trojan war
Tel visits him to learn news of his father

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Helen

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Most beautiful woman in the world
Caused the Trojan war after running away with Paris
Recognizes tel as od son

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Alkinoos

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King if the Phaeacians
Offers od hospitality on the island of scheria
Provides him with safe passage home
Ship gets turned to stone upon it’s return

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Arête

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Wife of alkinoos and mother of nausicca queen of the Phaeacians
It’s her that od is told to seek help from

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Penelope

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Queen of Ithaca wife of od and mother of tel
Waits for od despite the time and the suitors pressuring her to pick one to marry
Loom and speach

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Kalypso

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Beautiful nymph
Hold od captive until Hermes tells her to let him go
Offers him immortality and forgetfulness of his longing for home
Holds him for 7 years

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Polyphemos

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Posiedons son

Odysseus blinds him and brags about it and causes himself to have a hard trip back home after committing impiety

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Tiresias

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Blind prophet in od and oed
Shows od how to get back to Ithaka and how to talk to other peeps in the underworld
In oed he tells him that he’s the one who killed Laois

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Agamemnon

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Commander in chief of the Greek army

Gets killed by his wife klytaimnestra and agisthos

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Kly and aigisthos

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Kill ag and send Orestes into exile

Later get killed by Orestes foil to od fam

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Dues ex machina

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Plot device to solve an unsolvable problem

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Bob and wheel

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Occurs at the end of each stanza mad famous by sggk

Middle English

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