Love and Relationships

Question 1

What is ‘anaphora’?

Answer 1

A word or phrase that is repeated at the start of neighbouring clauses for emphatic effect

Question 2

What is the ‘andron’?

Answer 2

A room on the ground floor of a Greek house which was only used by the kyrios and his guests at the symposium

Question 3

What is ‘apatheia’?

Answer 3

immunity to pain- this is the desired state of mind for a Stoic , to achieve this, a stoic must place reason above the natural desires of the body

Question 4

What is an ‘apostrophe’?

Answer 4

A direct address to a third party to break up the narrative voice

Question 5

What is an ‘arete?

Answer 5

virtue or goodness- this is a difficult concept to define, but it is central to several ancient Greek philosophies

Question 6

What is an ‘asyndeton’?

Answer 6

A lack of conjunctions in a list to give the description intensity.

Question 7

What was the ‘chorus’?

Answer 7

A number of performers singing together, which is a familiar feature of Greek drama. Choruses would also perform poems/songs at religious rituals or weddings

Question 8

What does ‘cum manu’ mean?

Answer 8

with power- this denotes a marriage where the husband gained power over his wife

Question 9

What is ‘dactylic hexamter’?

Answer 9

an ancient poetic metre in which a line consists of six metrical feet of similar lengths

Question 10

What is didactic poetry?

Answer 10

Poetry which is intended to teach a lesson to its readers- instructional poetry

Question 11

What was a ‘dowry’?

Answer 11

A financial agreement made between the families of the bride and groom

Question 12

What are ‘elegiac couplets’?

Answer 12

an ancient poetic metre which consisted of just two adjacent lines; the first is a line of dactylic hexameter and the second is a shorter pentameter line , which tends to be indented when printed

Question 13

Who was the ‘erastes’?

Answer 13

the adult in a pederastic relationship

Question 14

Who was the ‘eromenos’?

Answer 14

The boy in a pederastic relationship

Question 15

What was ‘eros’?

Answer 15

Sappho uses this word for ‘love’. She also uses the adjective and verb formed of this word .

Question 16

What does ‘genre’ mean?

Answer 16

A type or kind of artwork into which many can be grouped

Question 17

What was the ‘gymnasium’?

Answer 17

An area where men would meet to exercise naked

Question 18

What does ‘homoerotic’ mean?

Answer 18

same sex relationship

Question 19

what is a ‘hyperbole’?

Answer 19

exaggeration used for literary effect

Question 20

what was an ‘infamis’?

Answer 20

a person who, because of their profession or conduct, held no legal standing in Roman society (prostitutes, actors and gladiators)

Question 21

What was a ‘Julian Law’

Answer 21

a law introduced by a member of the Julian family, which included the first five emperors.

Question 22

Who was the ‘kyrios’

Answer 22

the head of an ancient Greek oikos. the kyrios was responsible for the women, children and unmarried female relatives in the oikos

Question 23

What is a ‘love elegy’?

Answer 23

A style of roman poetry concerned with the trials and tribulations of love; the poetry was sometimes wistful, sometimes erotic and sometimes taboo

Question 24

What is a ‘lyre’

Answer 24

A stringed musical instrument played, after Sappho’s time, with a plectrum

Question 25

what was a ‘lyric’ ?

Answer 25

Poetry with love as its principal theme, which would usually be performed accompanied by a lyre.

Question 26

What was ‘manus’

Answer 26

power. This is the legal power wielded by a husband over his wife

Question 27

What is a metaphor?

Answer 27

Comparison made for literary effect

Question 28

What is a ‘monody’

Answer 28

The solo performance of poetry , personal intimate poetry

Question 29

What is an ‘oikos’?

Answer 29

The ancient Greek household- this would include not only the family and their slaves but also property and possessions

Question 30

What is ‘Pandemian eros’?

Answer 30

Common desire for the body, rather than for the mind

Question 31

What is a parody?

Answer 31

A piece of work which is intended to make fun of another work or a genre of work

Question 32

What was a ‘paterfamilias’

Answer 32

The male head of the roman household; this was the position of the father of the Roman household and when he died it was passed down to his son.

Question 33

What was the ‘patria potestas’

Answer 33

The legal power of the paterfamilias over the members of his family ; all legitimate children were subject to this power until the death of their father

Question 34

What was ‘pederasty’

Answer 34

sexual relationships between an adult male and a pubescent boy

Question 35

What was a ‘plectrum’?

Answer 35

A small flat object used to pluck or strum the strings of a lyre to produce a sound

Question 36

What is a polysyndeton?

Answer 36

The use of an unnecessarily large number of conjunctions in a list to emphasise the number of things being listed

Question 37

What is ‘pothos’?

Answer 37

Sappho uses this term to indicate powerful ‘desire’ (seen in poem 102)

Question 38

What is ‘praeterito’ ?

Answer 38

saying you will not mention something and in doing so deliberately mentioning it and bringing it up

Question 39

What is ‘pudicitia’

Answer 39

chastity or modesty- this is the ideal quality of a Roman woman, especially from the upper classes

Question 40

What is a rhetorical question?

Answer 40

A question to make a point; a question that frames the addressee as it is assumes no one will answer it

Question 41

What does ‘sine manu’ mean?

Answer 41

without power- this denotes a marriage where the husband did not gain power over his wife and she remained under patria potestas