Terms Flashcards

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Acropolis

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area in Ancient Athens with temples, became center of all Greek religious life

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antilogy

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a controversy or discussion usually found in a play

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Asebia

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impiety, disrespect

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4
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Dikos Logos

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Just argument

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5
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Adikos logos

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Unjust argument

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Dionysia

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Festival to honor Dionysus where tragedies and comedies were put on

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Elgin marbles

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Statues from the Parthenon taken by Lord Elgin back to England

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Esoteric

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Works intended for only a small group of experts (eg. all remaining works of Aristotle)

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Exoteric

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Works intended for a large audience (eg. all lost works of Aristotle)

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10
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Frieze

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Band around temple with sculpture

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Hedone

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Pleasure

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Helots

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Class of serfs in Sparta between slaves and citizens

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Hero Cult

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Cults that worshipped heroes (esp. Heracles)

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Koroi/Korai

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Male/Female statues in the Archaic period used as status symbol and sometimes grave markers

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Metope

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Sections between the triglyphs with engravings

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16
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Mystery Cult

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Secret cults that upperclass sometimes made fun of, most famous is Eleusinian Mysteries to Demeter and Persephone

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Nomos

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Phusis

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Natural law

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Oikos

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Ostracism

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Athens dispelled people for 10 years based on a vote on ostrakon

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Parabasis

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When all actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly

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Peplos

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Material worn by women (peplos kore)

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Phrontistai

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Nice word for intellectuals

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Phrontisterion

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Sophists
Dirty word for philosophers used by Plato to describe those he didn't like
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Stasis
Civil strife
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Stichomythia
Tit-for-tat in plays that use the previous words in their reply
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Symposium
Drinking party
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Time (with long e)
look me up bitch
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Tragic irony
Greater meaning in words or actions only understood by audience not characters
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Tyrannos
Tyrant, the demos usually liked them
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Basileus
King by birthright