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Greek Terms Flashcards

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Athloi

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The twelve Panhellenic Heraklean Labors

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Parergon

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Side quests within other major quests

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Katabasis

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Journey to the underworld. Mark of a true hero.

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Xenia

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Guest friendship relationship.

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Daimones

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The Graiai. Sisters of the gorgon. Share one eye and tooth. Perseus stole them in order to learn whereabouts of gorgon Medusa. Gave hi, cap of invisibility, winged sandals, and kibisis

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Kibisis

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Sack to contain the head of Medusa

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Hubris

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Fatal flaw.

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Aegis

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Shield of Zeus with head of Medusa on it. Often used by Athena.

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Didactic

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Type of poetic meter.

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Bougonia

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Practice involving spontaneous generation of bees from sacrificed cattle. Used as a way fir Aristaeus to redeem himself after death of Euridice.

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maenads

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Female followers of Bacchus

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Bacchic frenzy

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Used by Bacchus against non-believers in his status of god. Often caused his maenads to tear the person to pieces.

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Catasterism

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Process of being turned into a constellation

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Deus ex machina

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Timely intervention by Poseidon to allow the escape of Medea after the murder of Creon, Glauce, and her own children.

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Nostoi/Nostos

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Process of traveling home after a journey. Involves physical journey, but also the return to position within the oikos.

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Penteconter

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50 oared ship.

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Bireme

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Greek ship. 2 tiers of oars.

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Trireme

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Greek ship. 3 tiers of oars.

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Oikos

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Role within home and family, loyalty to kin, duty to bury kin.

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In media res

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Narrative starts in middle.

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21
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Lotophagoi

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The Lotus-Eaters

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Outis Nemo

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Name given to Polyphemus by Odysseus. Meaning Nobody.

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Lares & Penates

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Religious figurines of Rome. Vergil’s version of the Aeniad tells of Aenias carrying these figurines from burning Troy.

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Spartoi

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Men that spring from ground sown with serpent teeth by Cadmus after finding the land that will become Thebes/Cadmia.

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Thyrsus

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Fennel staff used by the Thiasus (Bacchic followers)

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Thiasus

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Retinue of Bacchus

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Sparagmos

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Ritual act of tearing someone apart. Used by Bacchus after inducing a state of Bacchic frenzy.

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Anagnorisis

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Moment of critical discovery.

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Oida

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Perfect sight unrelated to the sense itself. Idea of the blind prophet.

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Nomos

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Customary law, namely civil law.

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Phusis

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Natural Law, namely, oikos.

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Polis

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City. Involves ideas of loyalty to king and civil law.

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Causus belli

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Causes/Events leading up to Trojan War.

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Hetairos

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Intense homosocial/homosexual relationship

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Teichnoskopia

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Narratives looking down on the battlefield from the city.

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Ab ovo

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Narratives told from the beginning. References birth of Helen.

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Aoidoi

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Improvisational poets/performers

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Rhapsodes

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Poetic reciters

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Menis

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Vengeful wrath.

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Timai/Time

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Public externalized representation of honor. Often material objects gained in sacking cities.

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Geras

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Prizes of honor. Representations of time.

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Kleos aphthiton

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Epic poem as a vehicle for everlasting glory “kleos”.

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Aristeia

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A moment of excellence by a hero. Often involves a marathon of slaughter of enemy soldiers.

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Theomachy

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Gods participating in battle against one another.

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Autochthony

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To be born of the earth/Gaia

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Dodecatheoi

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The Twelve Olympians

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Geranos

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Crane dance developed in Delos that represents the windings of the labyrinth of Crete.

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Synoikismos

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Unification of Attica under Theseus

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Demos

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The people

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Kratos

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Power

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Phratrios/Phratria

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Sacrifices to Zeus and Athena by the Athenians

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Panhellenic

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Involving all of Greece

53
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Prohedria

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Honorary seats to an event.

54
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Amazonomachy

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Battle between Theseus & Herakles and Amazons. Antiope, sister of Queen Hippolyte, mothers son of Thesesu, Hippolytus.

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Centauromachy

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Wedding of Pirithous (Lapiths), friend of Theseus, ends in battle after drunken centaurs attempt to abduct his bride.

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Theoria

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Religious trip to give tribute.

57
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Parthenogenesis

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Born of only a female parent

CLA204 Final 2017 (10 decks)

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