Final Flashcards
Ae thing
Aesc
Oedipus shield
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
P with triangle
Thorn
3
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P
Wynn
J crosses
Eth
Ae p 3 p j
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
Quest:
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
Hamartia
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
Hubris
Excessive pride
Dike
To seek revenge on a crime committed like Orestes
Foil
Orestes to tel
Frame narrative
A story within a story within a story
Oedipus:
Troy➡️Camelot➡️beheading game➡️exchange game➡️so on
Kleos
Eternal fame: Can be reached by going to war, dike, and going on a quest Important to make yourself known Arête Time Geras
Archaic age
Where: Asia Minor who: homer what: odyssey when: ca725bc
Marks a new rise in Greek civilization
Adopt Phoenician alphabet first Olympic Games in ca776
750-725 BCE
When the odyssey was composed believed to anyway
MS BL COTTON NERO A.X
The only manuscript we have of sggk Manuscript British library Cotton collection Nero head Shelf a 10th book
Epic
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
Conventions of epic
Statement of theme➡️invocation of muse➡️begins in media res➡️digression➡️epithets➡️hero embodies values➡️divinity
Romance
Story of adventure usually includes amorous episodes
Conventions of romance
Solitary quest of hero➡️central theme: love➡️central:female➡️supernatural➡️episodic➡️interiority➡️hero embodies the French chivalric ideal
Tragedy
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
King Arthur
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
Green Knight/lord bertilak.
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
Morgan la Faye
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
Lady bertilak
Manipulative
Try’s to seduce Gawain
Acts like a little sloot
Zeus
God of heaven and all creature
God of hospitality
Admires Odysseus helps him get home
Athena’s father
Poseidon
Zeus brother
God of the sea
Father of Polyphemus and hates Odysseus for blinding his son
Athena
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
Eurykleia
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
Eumaios
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
Telmakhos
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
Nestor
King of pylos and former warrior in Trojan war
Knows little of od when tel visits him
Clever speaker
Menelaos
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
Helen
Most beautiful woman in the world
Caused the Trojan war after running away with Paris
Recognizes tel as od son
Alkinoos
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
Arête
Wife of alkinoos and mother of nausicca queen of the Phaeacians
It’s her that od is told to seek help from
Penelope
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
Kalypso
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
Polyphemos
Posiedons son
Odysseus blinds him and brags about it and causes himself to have a hard trip back home after committing impiety
Tiresias
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
Agamemnon
Commander in chief of the Greek army
Gets killed by his wife klytaimnestra and agisthos
Kly and aigisthos
Kill ag and send Orestes into exile
Later get killed by Orestes foil to od fam
Dues ex machina
Plot device to solve an unsolvable problem
Bob and wheel
Occurs at the end of each stanza mad famous by sggk
Middle English
