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Greek Mythology Review Flashcards

1
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Meaning of Desis & Lusis

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Desis: Tying up
Lusis: Unravelling

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Greek for reversal

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Peripeteia/Perpetuity

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Phokis

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Where three roads meet

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Hypocrite

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This is what they referred the Actors as. Only 3 actors on stage at a time. Only men, in which they played multiple parts and characters.

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5
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Oedipus Rex- Name of adoptive parents

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Polybus & Merope

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6
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Famous oracle was at

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Delphi

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Skene

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Where the actors dressing rooms were.

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Fear and Pity

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The two emotion that make us Katharsis

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9
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Hemlock

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How Socrates was executed

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God of wine and fertility

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Dionysus: Space in front of Greek state to offer sacrifices

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Orchestra

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Large area in front of the stage where the actors sung and danced

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Deux ex Machina

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An external force that magically resolved any plot from Greek theatre; usually a hanging machine.

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Homer

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Wrote The odyssey and Iliad. Only performed his works orally.

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The Lyceum

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Aristotle’s school

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Socrates

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Only know him through plato and the republic. Believed in writing stunted ideas.

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Theatron

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area of seats where the audience sat from the hillside.

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Thymele

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Alter centered in the orchestra where sacrifices where made to Dionysus.

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Parados

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Walled walkway used to by the chorus to enter and exit the stage. Connected the skene to the orchestra.

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Pro- Scenium

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Long, narrow stage behind the orchestra where royalty sat.

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Eceylema

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Movable and/or revolving platform

21
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What is the chorus in Greek theatre?

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After every scene there is a chorus. It usually sums the previous scene. Led by a conductor, it imitates the actions of the previous scenes (15 people)
Tells about what happened, dramatizes to the audience and sometimes foreshadows the next scene.

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What was the festival of Dionysus?

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5 days in March and April
On the first day, Greeks honour him. 
Second day, choral songs are performed 
Last Three days: actors perform:
- Three tragedies 
- One satyr
- One comedy
Archon: State official who selected three parts to compete for a prize in the tragedy division.
23
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Myth

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Unity of time- duration of play
Unity of place- one location
Unity of action- unified, cohesive plot

24
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1100-800BC: Dark Ages

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Separated villages

No centralized government and little changes

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800-500BC: Archaic/Homer Age

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Homer and his books. The formation of city states with development od trading and shippings.

25
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800-500BC: Archaic/Homer Age

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Homer and his books. The formation of city states with development od trading and shippings.

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500-323BC: Classical

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Begins with the Battle of Marathon

Birth of democracy: a direct democracy. Although, only men were allowed to vote. Women where “special citizens”

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500-323BC: Classical Age

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Major cites being built. Broken down, but rebuilt during the renaissance period.

Birth of ostracism

28
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Three Fates

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Clotho: weaver rolls out the rope
Lachesis: measures the rope
Atropes: Cut the rope and end a life.

29
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Apollo (Roman Apollo)

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God of sun, music, poetry, prophecy, pictured with a lear

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Artemies (Roman Diana)

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Goddess of moon, protector of virgins

Bow and arrow to hunt

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Athena (Roman Minerva)

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Out of Zeus’ head

Symbol the owl

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Zeus (Roman Jupiter)

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Father of olympus

Lightening/Eagle

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Hades (Roman Pluto)

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God of Underworld

34
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Ares (Roman Mars)

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God of war, violence, switches sides to keep war going

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Dionysus (Roman Backus)

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Wine and fertility. Major in festavls.

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Hermies (Roman Mercury)

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Messenger and Trickster God

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Pan

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Part goat part man/panic derived

38
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What was most profound during 6th century BCE in Greece?

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Mathematics and Cosmology

39
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Who was the founder of political philosophy?

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Socrates

40
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What was the first University called?

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The Academy

41
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What were Plato’s first to third writings?

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First: Plays
Second: Justice and leadership. Focused on the Republic.
Third: Theory of forms and the metaphysical world.

42
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Who restored democracy?

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Plato

43
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Structure of Greek Tragedy

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  1. Prologue
  2. Parados
  3. Episodes
  4. Stasima
  5. Exodus
44
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What is an ideal form

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Ideal form for everything, everything else is a pure copy of that ideal form.

45
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The Archon

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A state official that selected three parts to complete for a prize in the tragedy division.

46
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Playwright

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Served as a teacher and moral improvement for a community.

47
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Festival of Dinoysus

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First day: Progression honouring Dinoysus
Second day: Choral songs are performed
Thrid Day: actors perform three tragedies, a satyr, and a comedy.
5 days in March and April

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