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Question 1

what is the alternative word used for kleos and why?

Answer 1

song, since it is the same as kleos in ancient Greek poetry and song

Question 2

What is an epic?

Answer 2

an expensive poem of enormous scope, composed in an old-fashioned and superbly elevated style of language, concerning the wondrous deeds of heroes.

Question 3

what is a hero cult?

Answer 3

hero worship in ancient Greeks

Question 4

how kleos was used in Homeric poetry?

Answer 4

refer to both the medium and message of the glory of heroes.

Question 5

Marshall McLuhan about medium?

Answer 5

the medium is the message

Question 6

exegesis?

Answer 6

close reading of a given text.

Question 7

Iliad meaning?

Answer 7

means “tale of Ilion”. Ilion is another name of Troy.

Question 8

What is common between Text A and B?

Answer 8

the obsession of heroes to dying soon to achieve immortality and kleos (glory) of song.

Question 9

what is compression and expansion?

Answer 9

device of compression is to be contrasted with the device of expansion.
Whereas expansion produces macro-narrative, such as the monumental composition of the Iliad itself, compression produces micro-narrative such as the story within-a-story that er are now considering.

Question 10

how a trailer is made?

Answer 10

by techniques of compression that resemble the techniques used in producing such micro-narrative in ancient Greek songmaking.

Question 11

what is micro-narrative of Text B?

Answer 11

is about a hero who decides to interrupt his honey-moon to go to Troy to fight on the side of the Trojans against the Achaeans.

Question 12

what is kleos or epic glory (aphthiton; imperishable, immortalization)?

Answer 12

macro-narrative of Iliad

Question 13

what is thing of art and thing of nature?

Answer 13

Achilles chose the glory of epic song (a thing of art, imperishable), over his own life (thing of nature, mortal).

Question 14

what is artificial and natural in a song culture?

Answer 14

artificial can be just as real as natural. The song of kleos was as real as their life for Achilles (heroes).

Question 15

What is hora?

Answer 15

season, seasonality, the right time, the perfect time, natural time in a natural life and natural cycle. (the hours is near)

Question 15

when heroes are unseasonal?

Answer 15

before their death and during their whole lifetime “not on time”.

Question 16

what is a swan sings?

Answer 16

swan sings its most beautiful song at the moment of its death. a heroes dying words can be pictured as a swan song.

Question 16

Hera?

Answer 16

the goddess of hora, goddess of season, in charge of making everything happen in a timely way.

Question 16

heros/ heroes?

Answer 16

meaning hero. The hero is ‘on time’ at the hora or ‘time’ of death.

Question 16

what is scripting his death?

Answer 16

its all about timing and heroes need to “script” their own death with their dying words.

Question 17

herakles?

Answer 17

he who has the kleos of Hera

Question 18

what is ate (aberration)?

Answer 18

Goddess Ate is an active personification of the passive experience that is ate, the word Agamemnon admits that he made mistake (insulting Achilles).

Question 19

What is Ate in referring to an active force?

Answer 19

grammatical subject of the verb aasthai. (cause to veer off course). this goddess personally causes all her victims ‘to veer off course’.

Question 20

what is the subject of verb aasthai?

Answer 20

Agamemnon, as he concluded his speech by admitting that he likewise ‘veered off course’.

Question 21

what is the big mistake of Zeus veer off course by Ate?

Answer 21

Hera tricked Zeus into making it possible for her to accelerate the birth of Eurystheus and to retard the birth of Herakles (inferior in social hierarchy) [micro-narrative], similarly, superiority of Achilles is canceled by the social superiority of Agamemnon at the beginning of the Iliad [macro-narrative].

Question 22

metopes?

Answer 22

the relief sculpture focused on a canonical number of 12 labors

Question 23

going into and out of the Hades is what sort of experience?

Answer 23

into (dying), out of (resurrection).

Question 24

en-elusion?

Answer 24

a place struck by lighting- a place made sacred by contact with the thunderbolt of Zeus.

Question 25

Elysium?

Answer 25

one of many different names given to an imagined paradisiacal place of immortalization for heroes after death.

Question 26

what is the fact about hero based on Homeric poem?

Answer 26

the hero can be immortalized, but the fundamental painful fact remains: the hero is not by nature immortal

Question 27

what is the result of unseasonality of the heroes?

Answer 27

lead to the telos or ‘fulfillment’ of hora, ‘seasonality,’ in immortal life, which is achieved in the setting of hero cult.

Question 28

what are the 3 character of a hero?

Answer 28

1. unseasonal
2. extreme-positively (being best) or negatively (unseasonality)
3. antagonistic toward the god similar to hero (although, it doesn’t effect the attraction- often a ‘fatal attraction’.

Question 29

pan-a-(h)or-ios?

Answer 29

the most unseasonal of them all (Achilles).

Question 30

when Achilles reaches maturity and seasonality?

Answer 30

in his death.

Question 31

What is J.D Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye thought by Caulfield says?

Answer 31

the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
- Many man have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them… if you want to. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. and it isn’t education. it’s history. It’s poetry.