Regional Study Guide Flashcards
Works of blind Homer
Iliad and Odyssey
Iliad
24 books long, dactylic hexameter, tells the story of the wrath of Achilles during the Trojan War
Odyssey
24 books long, the story of Odysseus going home to Ithaca
Homeric Hymns
To Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, Aphrodite, and Dionysius
Hesiod (c 700 BC) works
Theogony
Works and Days
Theogony
Dactylic hexameter, an account of the births of the gods
Works and Days
Dactylic hexameter, written to Hesiod’s bro, Perses, talks about farming, 5 ages of man (golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron) and mentions Prometheus and Pandora
Aesop
Author of fables, slave from Egypt or Thrace, lived on Samos
Alcaeus
Poet late 7th cen BC from Mytilene (Lesbos), argued with Pittacus and went to Egypt, threw down his shield and ran from battle like Archilochus
Works of Alcaeus
Lyric songs about politics, love, and hymns
Alcman
Lyric poet late 7th cen BC in Sparta
Works of Alcman
Partheneia: songs sung by a chorus of maidens at religious festivals
Anacreon
Poet of the early 6th century born in Teos moved to Polycrates’ court on Samos then moved to Athens
Works of Anacreon
Lyric, iambic, and elegiac poetry about love and the pleasures of life
Anaximander
Pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus from c 610-545 first book in prose about nature
Works of Anaximander
The first map of the earth
Anaximenes
Presocratic philosopher from Miletus, contemporary of Anaximander (both during mid sixth cen)
What did Anaximenes believe the primary substance to be?
Air
Archilochus
Poet from Paros in mid 7th cen
Works of Archilochus
Poem where he leaves behind his shield in battle, a great dishonor, first to name the meter iambic
Arion
Lyric poet from the 7th cen, born on lesbos, pupil of Alcman, lived with Periander
How did Arion survive being thrown overboard by pirates?
A dolphin, charmed by his singing, carried him to land, created dithyramb, a form of choral lyric poetry
Bacchylides
Lyric poet from Ceos in the late 6th to mid 5th cen, nephew of poet Simonides
