FYE terms

Question 1

xenia

Answer 1

guest-friend; hospitality idea in Ancient Greece; because someone was a guest in another’s home, there is now generational bond; think of the scene between Glaucus and Diomedes where Diomedes stops his Ariseia to recount to Glaucus their guest-friendship; Diomedes doesn’t kill Glaucus and they switch armour- maybe depicts this relationship to highlight importance of when xenia is broken

Question 2

Aristeia

Answer 2

go on this kind of killing rampage; hero in battle has his finest moment- think of Achilles after he returns to war after learning of Patroclus death

Question 3

meis

Answer 3

vengeful wrath- divine anger: described Achilles’ anger, singnaling he is close to a god

Question 4

akhos

Answer 4

angry grief, grief with a grievance

Question 5

Kleos

Answer 5

rumour, FAME, renown, reputation

Question 6

Time

Answer 6

relative rank in a zero-sum system, a pecking order. Won as a fighter, counselor, speaker, or ruler; honor is material

Question 7

Laos

Answer 7

host=army, people of a kingdom, an assembly

Question 8

Heroic Code

Answer 8

risking one’s life to win hinor and fame in battle; to be a hero is to die before your time

Question 9

Ascending scale of affection

Answer 9

typical motif in epic and tragedy and derived from folk-tale; its outstanding feature ti the elevation of conjugal love over the love of friends and relatives

Question 10

Peitho

Answer 10

persuasion, feminine attribute- displayed by Clytemnestra when convincing Orestes not to kill her

Question 11

Bia

Answer 11

force persuasion- masculine attribute: also displayed by Clytemnestra

Question 12

Eumenidyes

Answer 12

what the Furies turn into at the end; the well-minded ones

Question 13

Demos

Answer 13

voting citizens

Question 14

Isonomia

Answer 14

equal nomoi- equal laws

Question 15

Logoi

Answer 15

logic

Question 16

Ekklesia

Answer 16

assembly of all voting citizens

Question 17

Perikles

Answer 17

general/ruler ish who reformed Athens and the Athenian democracy- city building program, pay for jurors and most public offices, citizenship law, purging of citizenship rolls

Question 18

City/Great Dionysia

Answer 18

tragedies performed at this festival- sponsored by the state and lasted Mar24-28; honored dionysus

Question 19

Choregoi

Answer 19

people who were appointed by the Athenian state to produce the tragedies

Question 20

Dike

Answer 20

justice: what is justice in the oresteia

Question 21

Ate

Answer 21

ruin/destruction

Question 22

Anti

Answer 22

instead of, opposite (in sense of facing), in place of- one thing for another, reduces the world to two choices where there is only room for one- highlights Antigone’s death- there is only room for her death

Question 23

Kyrios

Answer 23

guiding figure- Creon was supposed to be this for Antigone and her siblings

Question 24

Physis

Answer 24

idea of human nature - what makes humans humans; given human nature, history will recur in the future

Question 25

Ananke

Answer 25

idea of necessity; what is necessary in a given moment; thucydides wrinitng what generals should have said

Question 26

Aklea

Answer 26

unsung/inglorious, w/o kleos

Question 27

geras

Answer 27

term for war prize

Question 28

nostos

Answer 28

term for homecoming

Question 29

oikos

Answer 29

term for house

Question 30

polis

Answer 30

term for city/interests of the city