Final Flashcards
Bacchants
Priest of Bacchus
Maenads
Mad women
Thyrsus
Wand of giant fennel covered with ivy topped with a pinecone
Satyrs
Drunken woodland gods
Greek: man with horse ears and tail
Roman: man with goat ears, tail, legs and horns
Orchestra
Circular space in front of the stage allotted to the chorus
Genos gynaikon
Race of women
Elpis
Hope
Pithos
Large storage container
Kalon kakon
Beautiful evil
Symposion
Philosophical text by Plato
Iambic poetry
Short syllable followed by long syllable
Numen, numina
Spirit or divine power over a thing or place
Lares and Penates
Groups of deities who protected the family and roman states
Pater familias
Head of the roman families
Patria potestas
Roman family law, power that male head of the family exercised over his children
Psychopompous
Guide of the souls to the place of the dead
Apotheosis
Making divine
Euhemerism
Approach to interpreting mythology in which it is presumed to have originated from real historic events
Tragedy authors
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Pathei mathein
Wisdom arises from suffering
Catharsis
Purification/cleansing
Enthousiasmos
The god in us
Ekstasis
To stand outside oneself
Omophagia
Eating raw flesh
Katabasis
Descent to the underworld
Oidos
Song
Iole
Daughter of Eurytus who had archery contest for marriage and Heracles won
Omphale
Queen of Lydia inAsia Minor
Deianira
Man destroyer, heracles second wife
Achelous
River god
Nessus
Centaur killed by Heracles
Megara
First wife of Heracles
Dionysus
God of wine, fertility, grapes and holds the thyrsus staff
Lenaea
Annual Athenian festival
Anagnorisis
Moment in a play where a character makes a critical discovery
Peripeteia
Sudden reversal of fortune
Lysios
Dionysus, the one who unites
Sparagmos
To tear apart
Elusinian mysteries
Initiations for the cult of Demeter and Persephone
Ananke
Compulsion
Lachesis
One of the three fates
Pluto
Hades
Nekyia
Ghosts called up and questioned about the future
Princeps
The first
Jove/Jupiter
Zeus
Juno
Hera
Ceres
Demeter
Diana
Artemis
Mercury
Hermes
Vulcan
Hephaestus
Neptune
Poseidon
Mars
Ares
Minerva
Athena
Cupid
Eros
Venus
Aphrodite
Pietas
Loyalty
Gens
Family from a common ancestor