Unit 12-The Flickering Light In The Cave: Classical Greece Flashcards
What does the word Iliad mean?
“The tale of Ilios”
In the Iliad, who was the son of Peleus, and whose friend, Patroclus, was killed by Hector, and vowed vengeance on Hector for doing so?
Achilles
Who was the king of Greece in the Iliad?
Agamemnon
In the Iliad, who was the son Zeus, and the god of youth, beauty, and wisdom?
Phoebus
Who was Hector’s fathering the Iliad?
King Priam
In the Iliad, who was the son of King Priam who killed Achilles’s friend, Patroclus, and was killed by Achilles?
Hector
In the Iliad, who was the daughter of Zeus, and was the goddess of arts and wisdom, and supported the Greeks in the Trojan War, and therefore helped Achilles to kill Hector?
Athene
Who was the blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
Who was Odysseus’s swineherd in the Odyssey?
Eumaeus
Who was Odysseus’s wife in the Odyssey?
Penelope
Who was Odysseus’s son in the Odyssey?
Telemachus
Who was Penelope’s personal servant in the Odyssey?
Nurse Euryclea
What was the name of Odysseus’s dog in the Odyssey?
Argos
What is any brief poem, often as an inscription for monuments or tombs?
Epigram
What is a short poem written in pairs of unrhymed lines, often on themes of war, love, or death?
Elegy
What is poetry that combines criticism with wit or ironic humor to ridicule something called?
Satire
Who wrote the poem “The Dying Christian to His Soul”?
Alexander Pope
Who was the English poet, satirist, and critic of the 18th century, and was especially known for his translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey?
Alexander Pope
Who wrote the poem “Death Be Not Proud”?
John Donne
Who was the English poet and preacher if the 17th century, who was known for his striking images called conceits?
John Donne
Who is the author who was a Greek slave, and is credited with the introduction of the fable in literature?
Aesop
What is the moral in Aesop’s “The Lion and the Mouse”?
In time of need the weak may help the strong.
What is the moral in Aesop’s “The Wolf and the Shepherd”?
A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy.
What is the moral in Aesop’s “The Goatherd and the Wild Goats”?
Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.
What is the moral in Aesop’s “The Bear and the Two Travellers”?
Misfortune tests the sincerity in friends.
What is a brief anecdote told in a simple, direct style in prose or verse describing a single incident and designed to tech a moral, usually by using animals as characters?
Fable
What is a form of literature in prose or poetry (or a combination of the two) which uses actors to portray a story’s characters, action, and dialogue?
Drama
What are written instructions designed to aid in producing the playable helping the reader visualize the setting of scenes by giving details of time, place, scenery, props, and the entrances and exits of characters?
Stage directions
What refers to the conversations between two or more characters, or all speeches of the play taken collectively?
Dialogue
What is a speech by one character alone on the stage?
Soliloquy
What is a comment made to the audience that the other characters are not supposed to have heard?
Aside
What refers to the movements and speech of characters performing or “acting out” situations an the stage, and it involves the whole pattern of events telling the story?
Action
What are the persons who perform the action in a play?
Characters
What is the hero called in a play?
Protagonist
What is the opponent of the hero in a play?
Antagonist
What is the arrangement of events in a play?
Plot
The ________________ of a five-act play generally has the following sequence: exposition, rising action, climax or crisis, falling action, and catastrophe or dénouement.
Dramatic structure
The dramatic structure of a five-act play generally has the following sequence:
Exposition, rising action, climax or crisis, falling action, and catastrophe or dénouement
What is something that interrupts a static situation often in the form of a new character?
Inciting force
What type of drama generally deals with the serious, the sad, and the catastrophic aspects of life?
Tragedy
What kind of play deals with the light and happy aspects of life, and ends happy?
Comedy
What kind of theatre had the three main parts of the auditorium, orchestra, and skene?
Greek theatre
What was one of the three main parts of the Greek theatre where the audience sat?
Auditorium
What was one of the three main parts of the Greek theatre which acted as the stage?
Orchestra
What was one of the three main parts of the Greek theatre that was used for changing costumes and housing the scenery?
Skene
What was a group of dancers and singers that was used to comment upon the action of the play?
Chorus
What is an exceptional character, though not perfect, who undergoes a morally significant struggle which ends disastrously?
Tragic hero
What is a weakness or defect which along with fate helps to bring about the tragic heroes’ downfall?
Tragic flaw
What gives the introductory background or exposition?
Prologue
What is the song delivered as the chorus enters the orchestra, and us also called the choral entry ode?
Parados
After the Parados follow five __________ or scenes separated by choral odes.
Episodes
After the parados follow five episodes or scenes separated by _____________, which are made up of three parts- the strophe, antistrophe, and the epode.
Choral odes
What is the first part of the three parts of the choral ode is recited as the chorus moves in one direction across the stage?
Strophe
What is the second part of the three parts of the choral ode that is recited as they turn and move in the opposite direction?
Antistrophe
What is the third part of the three parts of the choral ode that is delivered when the chorus is stationary?
Epode
Who wrote Antigone?
Sophocles
Who was the Greek dramatist who lived about four hundred years before Christ during the Age of Pericles, and was interested in the basic questions of human life and investigated them in his great tragedies?
Sophocles
Who spent his life trying to answer the question “what is the best way to live?” And in the end was sentenced to death by the Athenians on the charges of denying the existence of the gods and corrupting the young men of the city, and showed that a philosopher can be a law-abiding citizen?
Socrates
Who was a student of Socrates, who became one of the greatest philosophers of all time, and wrote thirty or more works of philosophy, the most important one being The Republic?
Plato
Who was a student of Plato, who mastered every field of learning known to Greeks, tutored Alexander the Great, and his writing greatly influenced Thomas Aquinas, who combined Aristotle’s philosophy with the teachings of the Medieval Roman Church?
Aristotle
Who wrote “Socrates’ Death” from the work Phaedo?
Plato
Who wrote “Two Images” from the work The Republic?
Plato
Who wrote “Alexander”?
Plutarch
Who was sometimes called the father of the art of biography, and was a notable Greek biographer and essayist who gained renown for his work Lives?
Plutarch
