Homer, the Illiad

Question 1

describe lyric poetry

Answer 1

very personal
Dealing with specific experience
Much shorter than epic poetry
Sole task is to convey an emotion - lyrical painting - doesn’t have to make sense

Question 2

Archilochus of Paros was a lyric poet. He had a mad love poem about two women where the mood changes quickly (common in lyric poetry)

What is the basis of this poem

Answer 2

He goes on about how much he loves his current hoe
Then goes on a roll insulting his ex wife
Then goes back to his current hoe, and cums all over her

Question 3

Theogonis of Megara was lyric poet. He wrote a poem about poverty, what was his main point

Answer 3

“The poor man can’t say anything or do anything, because his tongue is tied”

Question 4

Sappho of Lebos was a lyric poet. She is know as the best woman poet of all time

1. how did she die?
2. what is her view on love

Answer 4

1. She was in love for this young man who rejected her, and then committed suicide because of it
2. Love is not only the centre of sappho’s universe, it is her universe - sees love in everything and anything

Question 5

For greeks _____ was an indicator of the quality of a person, and a very admirable thing

Answer 5

Sports

Question 6

Explain the Gymnasium

Answer 6

• central part of community that was used for education as well as sports

Question 7

what is the meaning of “pure athletics”

Answer 7

No team sports, not subjectivity in judging, just one person and all they have naturally to their means

Question 8

Greeks did all their sports _____, which enforced objectivity

Answer 8

naked

Question 9

what is the meaning of insomnia

Answer 9

“equality before the law”

Meaning when you go to court, the only thing a judge should listen to is the facts at hand

Adopted earlier in communities where athletics are prevalent

Question 10

Describe the Panhellenic games were….?

Answer 10

a means for all the greeks to some together and compete in sporting competitions.

there are 4 of them, held one per year so they do not overlap

held as a part of religious festivals

Question 11

Any greek could participate in the panhellenic games as long as they could prove their _______

Answer 11

greekness

Question 12

The Olympic games were held for _____, at ______ and a ____ __ ______ was won by the victor

Answer 12

The Olympic games were held for ZEUS, at OLYMPIA and a WRATH OF OLIVES was won by the victor

Question 13

How did Olympic competitors ensure their safety, considering they there leaving their polis and would not have guaranteed safety?

Answer 13

A truce was set not to harass olympic competitors

Question 14

what happened on Day 1 of the Olympic games

Answer 14

Worship

Really is a religious festivals in which the athletic competition gradually took over

Question 15

what happened on Day 2 of the Olympic games
(morning and midday)

Answer 15

Morning: Chariot/Horse Races

Midday: Pentathlon
Footrace, discuss, long jump, javelin, wrestling
The winner cumulative of the 5 gets prize

Question 16

what happened on Day 3 of the Olympic games
(morning and afternoon)

Answer 16

Morning parade to altar of zeus
Sacrifice 100 cattle, burn them, bbq them, and set aside for banquet on day 5

Afternoon: “boys” events
Youths competing

Question 17

what happened on Day 4 of the Olympic games
(morning and midday)

Answer 17

Morning: Footraces
200 yards
400 yards
4800 yards

Midday: contact sports
Wrestling
Boxing
Pankration: mixed martial arts, anything goes
Race in armour (hoplitodromos meaning hoplite race)

Question 18

what happened on Day 5 of the Olympic games

Answer 18

Concluding worship and banquet

They eat the cows that they had sacrificed on day 3

Question 19

what is a pre-Socratic philosopher

Answer 19

any philosopher that came before Socrates

Question 20

what does cosmos means

Answer 20

order from chaos

Question 21

Materialism asks what the universe is made of, what do these 4 kinds hold?

Thales
Anaximenes
Heraclitus
Xenophanes

Answer 21

Thales : water
says everything comes from water
At one point the entire earth was a globe of water

Anaximenes: air -
Everything is air in different degrees

Heraclitus: fire
Everything is fire compressed

Xenophanes:
Humans invented gods, we will never really know

Question 22

what philosopher is associated with the formalists?

Answer 22

Pythagoras

Question 23

what did the formalist Pythagoras hold

Answer 23

believed that numbers and music were the basis of the universe

They both have laws that govern them, and everything we see is a manifestation of those laws

Idea that your perception of reality is underpinned by basic laws that govern the universe

Harmony of heavenly spheres (sun, moon, planets) all move in harmonious (musical) ways

Question 24

Who thought “If you change something, it still exists… nothing changes”

Answer 24

Paramenides

Question 25

explain parmenides' ideas on existence and change

Answer 25

If you change one thing in what exists, the result is that it is now what does not exist Ie. our senses tell us that things are constantly changing but if they were really changing it wouldn't exist. Thus out senses deceive us and nothing changes Can cant get something that is from something that is not Something either exists entirely or not at all, it can't come about or change

Question 26

who said "being is change" and that the universe in in constant state of change

Answer 26

Heraclitus

Question 27

Empedocles and Democritus and both ______

Answer 27

Pluralists

Question 28

who believed in the 4 elements: fire, water air, earth - constantly changing and reforming, the amount never changes but how they form does

Answer 28

Empedocles

Question 29

who proposed the smallest broken down piece of the universe - the A-tom

Answer 29

Democritus

Question 30

What is a sympotic vessel

Answer 30

a vessel used to dilute wine for symposiums

Question 31

what is a symposium

Answer 31

an upper class, all male drinking party

Question 32

A lot of poetry was written for symposia, particularly _____ poetry

Answer 32

lyric poetry

Question 33

what is the meaning of Adream

Answer 33

"male room"

Question 34

In preparation for symposia, men would

Answer 34

- wear flowers on their garments and douse themselves in oil

Question 35

a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water, is called a

Answer 35

Krater

Question 36

what type of women were allowed to go to symposia

Answer 36

HOES - prostitutes

Question 37

before entering the symposia they would

Answer 37

They would pray to gods, pour out some wine, and then go to symposium

Question 38

define symposiarch, and their role

Answer 38

dude in charge of the symposium - Decides what they'll sing about (theme) - Also how many kraters they will drink

Question 39

define komos

Answer 39

a ritualistic drunken procession performed by revelers in ancient Greece, whose participants were known as komasts

Question 40

what does the sympotic ethos mean

Answer 40

the opportunity to meet other people