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vocab - Heracles, Temples Flashcards

vocab from red boxes in textbook. does not include 1.4 myth and city foundation stories

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Who is Alcmene?

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wife of Ampitryon, decendant of Perseus

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Who is Amphitryon?

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husband of Alcmene and nephew of Sthenelus

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seer

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a person who is reputed to be able to ree the future

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Who is Eileithyia?

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daughter of Zeus, Hera, goddess of midwives and childbirth - involved in the birth of Heracles

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Who is Eurystheus?

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son of Sthenelus, King of Mycenae

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Who is Iphicles?

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son of Alcmene and Amphitryon and King of Mycenae, descendant of Perseus

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Who is the Hydra?

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a many-headed serpent monster

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what is a Hind?

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a deer

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What is a Pithos

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a large storage clay jar

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Where is Pisa?

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a town near Olympia in the Greek Peloponnese

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What is a linchpin?

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a fastener used to stop a wheel from coming off its axis

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What is a pediment?

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a triangular area at the top of each end of a temple, which could contain sculpture

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What is a metope?

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square decorative spaces that ran around a Doric temple and could contain sculpture

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What is the river Tiber?

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the main river running through Rome

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What is Pallas?

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a giant who fought against the Gods, not to be confused with Evander’s son, also called Pallas, or when Athena is caused Pallas Athena

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what is a pyre?

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a funeral mound made of wood on which to cremate a body

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what is a sanctuary?

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an area of Holy land dedicated to a god or gods that contained the temple and altar

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what is pollution?

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when a person has done something to make them impure in the eyes of the gods

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What is a collonade?

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an open-air covered walkway supported by columns

20
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what is cella (in greek naos)

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small room in latin, room containing the cult statue

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what is opisthodomos?

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the rear room in a temple that contained the city or the town’s treasures

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What is ionic frieze?

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an unbroken strip of marble that goes all the way around a temple

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What is doric frieze?

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a continuous strip of stone or marble divided into square spaces called metopes

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What is hiereus?

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pl- hiereis
‘one who sacrifices to a god’ - a Greek priest

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What is a hiereia?

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pl- hiereiai
‘one who sacrifices to a hod’- a greek priestess

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What is a mantis?

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pl-manteis
a Greek soothsayer who reads entrails of animals or bird signs to predict the outcome of future events

27
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What is an augur?

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a person who reads the flights of birds to predict the outcome of futures

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What is a blood sacrifice?

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the killing of an animal as an offering to a god

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what is a hetacomb?

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the sacrifice in honour of a God of atleast 100 oxen during large festivals

30
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What is gliding?

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the covering of a surface in a thin layer of gold

31
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what is an Altis?

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the sacred area in the centre of Olympia that contained religious buildings

32
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what is a semi engaged column

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a supporting column that is embeded in a wall, half protruding from it

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What is pax deorum

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the peace of Gods

34
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what is pontifex

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pl - pontifices
a Roman priest in charge of protecting temples, regulating religious law, and overseeing the religious calendar

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what is the Pontifex Maximus?

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the head of the pontiffs, the greatest pontiff

36
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what is lituus?

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staff used by a Roman augur

37
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What is a vestal

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female priests in charge of the cult of goddess Vesta

38
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What is a mola salsa

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a mix of salt and flour made by the vestal virgins in rome and sprinkled on the heads of sacrificial victims

39
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What is a haruspex

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pl - haruspices
a Roman priest who read omens from entrails

40
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What is a popa?

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an official at a Roman sacrifice who struck the sacrificial animal with a wooden rod

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What is a cultrarius

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an official at a sacrifice who slit the throat of the sacrificial animal

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what is the rotunda

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a round Roman building, especially one with a dome

43
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What is an oculus

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a circular opening at the top of a dome

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