Test 3 Flashcards
Turnus’s sister, who is a nymph
Juturna
Internprets eagle sign from Jupiter and starts fighting between the Latins and Trojans on battlefield
Tolumnius
ecphrasis
description of artwork in mythology
ex: Aeneas’s armor
Young, Trojan warrior who steals a helmet on battlefield only to have it give up his hiding place. He’s killed and his mother thinks his actions were selfish.
Euryalus
Young, Trojan warrior gives up and is killed after he sees his lover killed by the Italians
Nisus
Foundation myth
the story of a community’s origin or creation
Primary epic
developed organically from oral culture
Secondary epic
derived from already literate culture
Period during Homeric epics where myths were told orally
Archaic Period
Period where upper-class Greek culture became primarily literate
Hellenistic Period
Tiberinus
god of River Tiber appears in Aeneas’s dream to tell him the gods aren’t mad at him anymore
Ruler of the Arcadians, who are constantly at war with the Latins. Teams up with Trojans.
Evander
Cacus
cave inhabited half-man, half-beast who Hercules killed so now Arcadians worship him as their god
Italian warriors listed by the Muses
most notable: Mezentius
Mezentius’s son, Lausus
Turnus
fearless female warrior, Camilla
Latinus
ruler of Latinum, reveals prophecy that his daughter must marry a foreigner. Wants her to marry Aeneas.
Amata
Latinos’s wife. Wants daughter to marry Turnus, Latin warrior. Is later infected with hatred and takes daughter into woods.
Allecto
One of Hades’ Furies summoned by Juno to start war. Infects Amata with hatred, convinces Turnus to pursue Lavinia and instigates battle by leading Ascanius to kill Latinus’s domestic deer.
Pietas
sense of duty, political responsibility, destiny
Sibyl
Priestess of Apollo, prophesizes rise of an opponent in Latium, leads Aeneas into underworld
How Aeneas is allowed to enter Underworld
He must go into forest find golden bough and if deemed worthy he will give it to Queen Prosperina. Venus leads him to it with doves
Palinurus
One of the Trojan unburied dead who was killed by locals and now is stuck on the River Styx. Aeneas offers to bury him but Sibyl says they can’t and that the locals will bury him.
Anchises
Aeneas’s friend found in Underworld, watching souls be reborn which include future Roman leaders, Aeneas’s descendants
Deiphobus
Aeneas meets up with him in Underworld. He married Helen after Paris dies but then she let Menelaus and Ulysses kill him.
Furor
Passionate romance, personal happiness
Directly makes Dido fall in love with Aeneas
Cupid
Juno’s fake ass peace offering to Venus
Dido and Aeneas’s marriage
res publica
“the public affair”
memoria
a legacy to guide future generations of Rome
gravitas
serious
virtus
manly excellence, value
Syncretism
Blending of religions based on perceived commonalities (Roman & Greek gods)
Earliest author of Greek tragedies
Aeschylus
Western theater developed here. The most importance important producer of lit. and art
Athens
The Great Dionysia
multiple day festival honoring Dionysus: a competitive public spectacle including poetry, song, dance
dithyrambs
competitive hymns to Dionysus
main event of The Great Dionysia
tragedies
satyr plays
comic relief after tragedies, including jokes about drinking and sex, slapstick, etc
Origins of Western theatre
Athens
The Great Dionysia as a whole was integrally tied to…
Athens’ Democratic system
Chorus
12-15 performers who sang and danced during interludes in the play
