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Final Flashcards

1
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Bacchants

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Priest of Bacchus

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2
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Maenads

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Mad women

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3
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Thyrsus

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Wand of giant fennel covered with ivy topped with a pinecone

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Satyrs

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Drunken woodland gods
Greek: man with horse ears and tail
Roman: man with goat ears, tail, legs and horns

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5
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Orchestra

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Circular space in front of the stage allotted to the chorus

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6
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Genos gynaikon

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Race of women

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7
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Elpis

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Hope

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8
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Pithos

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Large storage container

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9
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Kalon kakon

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Beautiful evil

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10
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Symposion

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Philosophical text by Plato

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11
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Iambic poetry

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Short syllable followed by long syllable

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12
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Numen, numina

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Spirit or divine power over a thing or place

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13
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Lares and Penates

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Groups of deities who protected the family and roman states

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14
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Pater familias

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Head of the roman families

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Patria potestas

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Roman family law, power that male head of the family exercised over his children

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16
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Psychopompous

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Guide of the souls to the place of the dead

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17
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Apotheosis

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Making divine

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18
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Euhemerism

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Approach to interpreting mythology in which it is presumed to have originated from real historic events

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19
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Tragedy authors

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

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20
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Pathei mathein

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Wisdom arises from suffering

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21
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Catharsis

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Purification/cleansing

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22
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Enthousiasmos

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The god in us

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23
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Ekstasis

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To stand outside oneself

24
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Omophagia

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Eating raw flesh

25
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Katabasis

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Descent to the underworld

26
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Oidos

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Song

27
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Iole

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Daughter of Eurytus who had archery contest for marriage and Heracles won

28
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Omphale

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Queen of Lydia inAsia Minor

29
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Deianira

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Man destroyer, heracles second wife

30
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Achelous

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River god

31
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Nessus

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Centaur killed by Heracles

32
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Megara

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First wife of Heracles

33
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Dionysus

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God of wine, fertility, grapes and holds the thyrsus staff

34
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Lenaea

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Annual Athenian festival

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Anagnorisis

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Moment in a play where a character makes a critical discovery

36
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Peripeteia

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Sudden reversal of fortune

37
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Lysios

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Dionysus, the one who unites

38
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Sparagmos

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To tear apart

39
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Elusinian mysteries

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Initiations for the cult of Demeter and Persephone

40
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Ananke

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Compulsion

41
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Lachesis

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One of the three fates

42
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Pluto

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Hades

43
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Nekyia

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Ghosts called up and questioned about the future

44
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Princeps

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The first

45
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Jove/Jupiter

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Zeus

46
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Juno

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Hera

47
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Ceres

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Demeter

48
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Diana

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Artemis

49
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Mercury

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Hermes

50
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Vulcan

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Hephaestus

51
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Neptune

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Poseidon

52
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Mars

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Ares

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Minerva

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Athena

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Cupid

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Eros

55
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Venus

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Aphrodite

56
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Pietas

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Loyalty

57
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Gens

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Family from a common ancestor

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