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Unit 12-The Flickering Light In The Cave: Classical Greece Flashcards

1
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What does the word Iliad mean?

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“The tale of Ilios”

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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?

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Achilles

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Who was the king of Greece in the Iliad?

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Agamemnon

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In the Iliad, who was the son Zeus, and the god of youth, beauty, and wisdom?

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Phoebus

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Who was Hector’s fathering the Iliad?

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King Priam

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In the Iliad, who was the son of King Priam who killed Achilles’s friend, Patroclus, and was killed by Achilles?

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Hector

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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?

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Athene

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Who was the blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

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Homer

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Who was Odysseus’s swineherd in the Odyssey?

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Eumaeus

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Who was Odysseus’s wife in the Odyssey?

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Penelope

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Who was Odysseus’s son in the Odyssey?

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Telemachus

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Who was Penelope’s personal servant in the Odyssey?

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Nurse Euryclea

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What was the name of Odysseus’s dog in the Odyssey?

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Argos

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What is any brief poem, often as an inscription for monuments or tombs?

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Epigram

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What is a short poem written in pairs of unrhymed lines, often on themes of war, love, or death?

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Elegy

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What is poetry that combines criticism with wit or ironic humor to ridicule something called?

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Satire

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17
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Who wrote the poem “The Dying Christian to His Soul”?

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Alexander Pope

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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?

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Alexander Pope

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Who wrote the poem “Death Be Not Proud”?

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John Donne

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Who was the English poet and preacher if the 17th century, who was known for his striking images called conceits?

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John Donne

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Who is the author who was a Greek slave, and is credited with the introduction of the fable in literature?

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Aesop

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What is the moral in Aesop’s “The Lion and the Mouse”?

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In time of need the weak may help the strong.

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What is the moral in Aesop’s “The Wolf and the Shepherd”?

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A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy.

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What is the moral in Aesop’s “The Goatherd and the Wild Goats”?

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Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.

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What is the moral in Aesop’s “The Bear and the Two Travellers”?

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Misfortune tests the sincerity in friends.

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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?

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Fable

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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?

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Drama

28
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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?

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Stage directions

29
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What refers to the conversations between two or more characters, or all speeches of the play taken collectively?

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Dialogue

30
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What is a speech by one character alone on the stage?

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Soliloquy

31
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What is a comment made to the audience that the other characters are not supposed to have heard?

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Aside

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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?

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Action

33
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What are the persons who perform the action in a play?

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Characters

34
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What is the hero called in a play?

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Protagonist

35
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What is the opponent of the hero in a play?

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Antagonist

36
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What is the arrangement of events in a play?

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Plot

37
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The ________________ of a five-act play generally has the following sequence: exposition, rising action, climax or crisis, falling action, and catastrophe or dénouement.

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Dramatic structure

38
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The dramatic structure of a five-act play generally has the following sequence:

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Exposition, rising action, climax or crisis, falling action, and catastrophe or dénouement

39
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What is something that interrupts a static situation often in the form of a new character?

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Inciting force

40
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What type of drama generally deals with the serious, the sad, and the catastrophic aspects of life?

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Tragedy

41
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What kind of play deals with the light and happy aspects of life, and ends happy?

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Comedy

42
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What kind of theatre had the three main parts of the auditorium, orchestra, and skene?

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Greek theatre

43
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What was one of the three main parts of the Greek theatre where the audience sat?

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Auditorium

44
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What was one of the three main parts of the Greek theatre which acted as the stage?

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Orchestra

45
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What was one of the three main parts of the Greek theatre that was used for changing costumes and housing the scenery?

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Skene

46
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What was a group of dancers and singers that was used to comment upon the action of the play?

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Chorus

47
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What is an exceptional character, though not perfect, who undergoes a morally significant struggle which ends disastrously?

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Tragic hero

48
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What is a weakness or defect which along with fate helps to bring about the tragic heroes’ downfall?

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Tragic flaw

49
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What gives the introductory background or exposition?

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Prologue

50
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What is the song delivered as the chorus enters the orchestra, and us also called the choral entry ode?

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Parados

51
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After the Parados follow five __________ or scenes separated by choral odes.

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Episodes

52
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After the parados follow five episodes or scenes separated by _____________, which are made up of three parts- the strophe, antistrophe, and the epode.

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Choral odes

53
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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?

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Strophe

54
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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?

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Antistrophe

55
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What is the third part of the three parts of the choral ode that is delivered when the chorus is stationary?

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Epode

56
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Who wrote Antigone?

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Sophocles

57
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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?

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Sophocles

58
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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?

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Socrates

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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?

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Plato

60
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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?

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Aristotle

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Who wrote “Socrates’ Death” from the work Phaedo?

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Plato

62
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Who wrote “Two Images” from the work The Republic?

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Plato

63
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Who wrote “Alexander”?

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Plutarch

64
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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?

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Plutarch

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