Part 1 Exam 2 Flashcards

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Mothers are associated with mortality and are the chief mourner as seen with

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Thetis and Achilles

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Women and dirt; death as polluting ____

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miasma

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How do women act during ritual lamentation

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They raise their arms, tear their hair, beat their breasts, and create lacerations while men are often more restrained to just outstretched hands

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3
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Lekythoi

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Offering of tomb scenes are depicted on funerary vases

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4
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What were females identified with

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the body, life cycle, and impurity

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5
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T/F women were perceived to have a lack of emotional control

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True

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What were most public venues for women’s authority associated with

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religious activity

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7
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Kanephoros

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sacraficial procession

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Citizens, we will begin to say a few useful words for the polis. which makes sense, for it reared me in splendor. when I was seven years old straight away I was a ritual weaver for Athena. Then wearing a yellow gown, I played the bear at the rites of Brauron; and I once carried the basket as a beautiful girl, wearing a necklace of figs.

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Chorus of older women in Lysistrata by Aristophanes’

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9
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Priesthood was a _____ position

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temporary

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10
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What did priesthood result in for women

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public authority; political influence

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11
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Thesmophoria

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State-sponsored women’s only festival

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T/F Thesmophoria was a subversion of social order

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yes

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During Thesmophoria, all public business ceased and women were

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appointed to oversee the festival

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14
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What was Thesmophoria celebrating

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Demeter and Persephone

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15
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Lysistrata was the first

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comic female protagonist

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16
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Scene 1 Lysistrata: greek women were used as a ______ not of the polis

17
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Lysistrata:
Were males suspicious of the Greek women’s activities when they were alone?

18
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Lysistrata:
Who was the manliest of women

19
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Lysistrata:
“Grab the brim, _______, you and all the others. someone repeat for all the rest of you the words I say– that way you’ll pledge your firm allegiance: no man, no husband, no lover….

20
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Who responds to Lysistrata in Scene 1?

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Calonice (her chief)

21
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…you get near me with a stiff prick. O ______, my knees are getting weak”

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Lysistrata
Speaker: Calonice

22
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What is the main point of Lysistrata Scene 2

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Gender conflict as a framing device, symbolizing the war between Athens and Sparta

23
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“Come on, _______, let’s hurry there as fast as we can go up to the city. We’ll see these logs down in a circle, stack them up so we keep them bottled up, those women who’ve combined to do this. then with our own hands, we’ll set alight a single fire and, as we all agreed in the vote we took, we’ll burn them all, beginning first with _______ wife.”

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Philurgus

Lycon’s

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Fire and water represent what in Lysistrata
male and female elements in ancient medicine
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Who wins the battle of elements in Aristophanes Lysistrata?
women
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What is the main point of Scene 3 in Lysistrata
fighting choruses introduced a conflict between the magistrate and Lysistrata
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What does Scene 3 do?
challenge the Homeric adage that war is a man's concern
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We men ourselves share in the blame for this. we teach our wives their free and easy lives, and so intrigues come flowering out from them. (who speaks and to whom?)
Magistrate to Lysistrata
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"you'd (who?) have been smacked if you had not been quiet and held your tongue"
Lysistrata; speak: magistrate
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So there I am at home, saying nothing. Then You'd (who?) tell us of another project, "how can you carry out a scheme like that?" It's foolish. Immediately He'd frown and say to me (who?) "If you don't spin your thread, you'll get a major beating on your head. War is men's concern"
Magristate; Lysistrata
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"and how will you (who?) find the power to stop so many violent disturbances?"
Lysistrata (speaker Magristate)
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What does Lysistrate compare winning the war to
making wool
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What happens during Scene 4 in Lysistrata
Women start to desert the acropolis using excuses
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"well then, I'll (who?) leave here, when it seems all right. But now I'm under Oath." "At least lie down with me (who?) a little while"
Myrrhine Cinesias
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"you'd like to? then, my little ______, lie down right here." You (who?) must be joking-- in front of our dear baby child?
Myrrhine Cinesias
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What does the quarrel between Magistrate and Lysistrata represent
the larger theme of the battle between sexes
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T/F Lysistrata proves the democracy is a fragile institution
yes
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When men harm the family, through war and injury, who must step in
women
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Explain how Greece is a closed society
earthborn idea citizenship laws anti-immigration
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Explain how Rome is an open society
Assimilation of other culture religious tolerance promotes immigration (dual citizenship)
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