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Midterm Terms Flashcards

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Agon

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On-stage debate between 2 characters

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Amoibaion

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Choral dialogue

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Alastor

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A spirit of revenge, (like a masculine fury) – Oed somewhat becomes one in Colonus

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Anagnorisis

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Recognition (Aristotle -> discovery of a true identity (yours or otherwise) essentially ignorance into knowledge).&raquo_space;one of Aristotle’s 2 requirements for tragedy other than reversal

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Archon

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Official or magistrate

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Aeropagus

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Hill of Ares, location of trial scene in Eumenides, where the Aeropagus Council was imagined to be created. Oversight over certain murder trials.

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Ate

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Delusion/Ruin (which are essentially the same thing here)

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Associative Poetics

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Aeschylus’ juxtaposition of dramatic action with another (Basically when one thing can remind you of another thing) Ex: Fire conveys the fall of Troy (Agamemnon) but also red and killing, and destruction.

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Bacchanal

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Female worshipper of Dionysus, Bakkh(e-), Bacchant, Bakkhos for a male which is also the word for Bacchus himself.

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Blood-guilt

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Special crime of killing someone related by blood

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Bromios/Bromius

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Greek name for Dionysus

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Catharsis

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Cleansing etc –> Aristotle says the audience experiencing pity and fear produces catharsis/purification from the psyche.

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Choregia

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Duty imposed by the state on a wealthy citizen. A choregus’ job was to fund and organize the production of drama at a festival. Would receive special recognition if his production won.

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Coryphaeus

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Chorus leader, job to dialogue with speaking characters or insert brief comments into dialogue between characters.

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Crepidata

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Genre of Roman drama. Crepida: soft boot worn by actors performing Greek tragedy. Crepidatae were adapted/translated from Greek originals.

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Delphi

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A Greek city 2 hours west of Athens, where Apollo’s most famous oracle. Pythia-the priestess of Apollo who serve as God’s mouthpiece.

Two famous sayings inscribed at the temple;
“Know thyself!”
“Nothing to excess!”

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Desis

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Aristotle’s term for complication –> the problem tragic action seeks to resolve

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Dues Ex Machina

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Latin for “God from the machine”.

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Dike

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Justice

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Dionysia

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Any festival honoring the God Dionysus. Greater Dionysia is the principal festival of the God. Lenaea, very old festival from lenai –> female worshippers

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Dionysus

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Son of Zeus and Semele. God of wine, revelry, drama. Aka: Bacchus, Bromios, Iacchus. “The Twice Born” because he was born once from his mother and once from Zeus’ thigh.

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Dithyramb

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Choral poems honoring Dionysus. 50 males dancing and singing in a circle.

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Ekkuklema

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Stage trolley used to roll corpses in order to reveal what happened behind the scenes.

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Episode

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Any section of a play following the entry of the chorus, between stasimon choruses, and featuring dialogue between actors or with the chorus leader.

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Eponymous Archon

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Athenian official whose duties included overseeing the selection of finalists in dramatic competitions.

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Erinys (Furies)

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Daughters of night, ancient Greek goddesses of punishment. In tragedy, spring up to punish blood guilt.

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Eros

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Love, desire, lust, greed, hunger, ambition, often overpowering, irrational, disastrous. Eros also refers to the god of love/lust.

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Essentialism

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The idea that a category can describe some fundamental core truth about a class of things. Ex: chair can be used to describe many objects, but most chairs also share characteristics. Think of it in sense of tragedy.

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Eumenides

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“Kindly Ones” (those who we wish were kindly, though we fear them greatly), alternative name of the Furies (Colonus).

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Exodos

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Finale and chorale exit song

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Ethos

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“Character”: dramatized personage’s inner motivations in relation to their morals.

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Fabula

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Latin for story, myth, fable, play.
Two genres:
Crepidata
Praetextia

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Hamartia

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Greek, error/mistake/transgression. (NOT flaw). Ham. of a noble or lofty is always what sets tragic action in motion.

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Heros

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Greek word (we get hero) deified spirit of a dead person, capable of protecting or harming the living. (Oed at Colonus)

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Hubris

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Greek, insult, arrogance, insolance. Any act of infringing on the dignity of another.

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Hupokrites

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Answerer/Actor

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Iacchus

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He of the cry, lo! –> Dionysus

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Ideal type

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Intellectual construct mapping out key features of a category or classification. Ex: what makes pizza pizza (the essence of pizza)

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io bakkhe!

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Worship of Dionysus

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Khoros

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Chorus

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Komast

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Male performer of a Komos –> root of comedy, drunken revel, country district, word for dramas

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Kommos

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To strike [one’s breast in lamentation]. A kommos is sung lamentation scene featuring dialogue between main character and the chorus

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Koros

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Excess –> wealth, power, pleasure which can induce hubris and crime

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Lusis

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Aristotle: Resolution , usually through reversal

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Libation

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A drink offering to a god or to the dead. It is poured on the ground or altar. At drinking parties its customary to offer 3 libations to 3 gods, the third to Zeus the Savior

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Maenad

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Female worshipper of Dionysus

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Mekhane

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Greek: stage machine

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Mimesis

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Greek: imitation

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Mos Maiorum

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Latin: Way of the ancestors

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Muthos

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Greek: myth, story, plot.

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Nominalism

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the position that categories are merely conventional labels

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Omophagia

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Greek: “Raw flesh eating”, sometimes attributed to Dionysus worship

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Orkhestra

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Dancing area in front of the stage of a Greek theater.

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Parodos

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  1. “side path” where performers pass when enter/exiting the performing area of a Greek theater
  2. “entry song” of the chorus
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Pathei Mathos

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Aesh’s Agamemnon: “learning through suffering”

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Peripeteia

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Greek: Reversal

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