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week 3 Flashcards

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Minoan

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language: (cofined to crete)

myths were minos Theseus and the minotaur
no alphabet, just syllables

  • g&k not distinguished
  • single and double consonants not distinguished
  • f= ph and ‘th’ not marked
  • linear B ? whatever that means
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greek migration?

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greeks not always native in greece, used to move ares, moved from the north??

tribe living in area north of caspian sea who spread out in europe and india

indo-european languages (like english and french)

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UH languages continued / dialects

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dialects of greeks
- eolians and ionians

third group: the dorians (less civilaized) brunt royal palaces (nothing would stop them to getting to bottom of greece?)
- created wastelands
eolians and ionians left to I think Turkey he said?

dorians arrived 50 years later

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italy

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greek cities snet colonies out to many directions (italy was a popular option)

group 1: vilonovans

group 2: Etruscans
- in tuscany
- connection with greeks
- adopted lots of greek culture and myths
- language unlike minoan, greek, and smanite
IMPORTANT: (no one knows where the fuck they came from)

group 3: also indo-europeans
- in latsio plane
- conquered all of italy

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Luvians

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luvians:
- only one written documents ever found in troy
- very humble

values of these symbols not very well known

  • at least one person in city spoke luvian
  • for homer the trojans speak greek (so that during battle they could insult each other and understand)

non greek speakers = barbarians ?

there was some ppl like him (not sure who) who were writing things down (keeping records of some sorts)

homer describes a world where writing doesn’t exits, no records or anything

writing was dangerous new technology oooooh

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Egypt

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writing did not relally make their appearance until ppl gave up hunting and gathering - until they were farmres, sedimentary lifestyle

  • ppl naturally settled near rivers (for agriculture purposes)

1) nile river and egypt
2) typres and euphrates in Iraq

^^ two earliest places where ppl began to settle down, get wealthy, and WRITE

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god families

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1) Ennead of Heliopolis
(meaning a group of nine - important number)

OSIRIS:
- married his sister (like Zeus) not cuz weird, just cuz those were the only options
- brother Seth got jeleous (killed his brother Osiris)
- cut him up and scattered him all over egypt
- threw penis into nile, eaten by shark-nosed fish

WIFE: gathers husband and restores him (no penis tho)
- created a prosthesus (they got a son named Horus

HORUS: when he died he became Osiris??? what

NEPTHY: didnt do any of the werid shit

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Names?

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names end it T = feminine

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More egyptian gods

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  • looked like human beings but better stronger (animal heads tho and colouful)

hold attributes so u can identify them by what they are holding

OSIRIS:
- holds an ANKH (sandle strap?)

Crook Flail:

Septers instead of crowns
- speter that you hold (what signifies if rulership)
- one for men and one for women

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upper and lower elevation

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Egypt = land of Sedge and Bee

elevation wise:
sedge = upper (south) Ethiopia (mostly dessert)

Bee = Lower (North)

have Crowns:

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mummification

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ha: iving body
ka: life force
ba: mind
hat: corpse
mummy: sah

if you mummify correctly the soul and mind should meet again in afterlife

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Sumer

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  • bottom of persian gulf now
  • sumerian is unlike any other language as well
  • sophisticate culture
  • conqured by samitic ? Semetic? tribes
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Babylonian & Assyrian

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shared similar language

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these citivilations traveled away from persian gulf
- techincally civilations tpically moved westward

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Sumerian pantheon

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  • collection of all the gods
  • kind of like a cabbin of all gods with their own portfolios

seven gods:

ENLIL - ninll
ENKI - hinhursa
- (insert female goddess name here)
AN
UTU
NANNA
NINURTA
undeworld

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Anu and Kumarbi god story about biting off father’s genitals?????

Thesub is the actual child of the ground then?

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in greek version Kronos uses cythe to castrate Sky (jumps really high which is why the sky is so much higher than the earth wowie)
he was mating too much with earth

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story of Noah’s arc in different religions

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great flood destroyed everyone exept one family

Greek: Deucalion

Akkadian: Ut- Napishtim / Atra Hasis
- one god felt bad and saved one man’s family (warned this guy or his hut really)
then gods realized that they eat smoke of sacrificed anials and are like oops so they dry up water so that man can give them sacrifices again?

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Thursday Lecture

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Tragic hero

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suffers from Hamartia

words of sin:
- greek: hamartia
- latin: Culpa
- Hebrew: Heted

Heracles Story:
- heracles’ wife given love potion, from centaur (just incase he falls out of love with her)
- heracles is away on trip - he arranges a spare room for his wife
- She mails him a shirt with the love potion
- gets a bit suspicious
- realizes its a bomb basically
- centaur tricked her
- messenger is like you bitch, you killed Heracles

her hamartia was trusting the centaur ig, tho it wasnt a sin really, just a screw up

HUBRIS: is like a sin against gods basically

20
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Justice

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GREEKS: giving to each person what they deserve

ROMANS:

21
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Dutiful

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“Pius”
ROMANS: piety (feel towards god) and pity (feel for another human)

typically Duty:
- immediate family
- broader family
- social class
- to your country
- ultimately to the gods

a pius person recognizes these obligations and tries to fulfill them

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Nomos

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GREEK:
nemesis : aka payback
(handed down by our anscestors)
ROMANS: if you believe you are justified
GREEKS: what you actually accomplished, the affect of the actions

like didn’t matter what hercales’ wife believed, she belw him up.

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Ruin progression bellow

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Olbos

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world happiness, concrete happiness,
bank balance is good type happiness, monetary sense

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Koros

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slightly insatiable, wanting more, even though you’ve had a lot

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Hubris

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  • likely to commit hamartia of a stake (aristotle said that)
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Ate

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1) losing moral compass
2) act of recklessness

gods can stick Ate into your mind if they want to destroy you
- gods are jealous of what they have, or of each other
- wanting to preserve what they have
- don’t like competition
- if humans are getting a little to close to olympus

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Heroes and Demigods:

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29
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hero

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  • someone who had done something heroic / fantastic
  • usually for good other people

Homer means who fought at troy (people who die for their country)

Hero: in connection with cult??
- people go to the grave of a hero to give them something and ask for advice or help

often the word is nothing more than being dead?

rule 16:
another different way to become a hero
- If you suffered something extraordinary (also a hero)
- like Oedipus

Greeks had baby Heroes to based on what that they have suffered :(

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Demigod

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  • sometimes a hero is demigod but not always

child of God and Human = demigod
- not immortal

Greek mindset:
- babies are idiots
- unspeaking
- deformed person

if you had a choice, you could grow up at whatever speed you chose
apparently, demigods can do that?

gods can mature rally quickly, artemis grows up immediately to help her other with the birth of her twin brother

heracles had mortal brother
snakes were sent after them,
heracles suffocated both snakes

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Zeus and Hera giving birth to children on their own

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Zues got pregnant and gave birth to a daughter (Athena)
(Hephaestus helped crack open his head)

Hera gave birth without partner to Hephaestus, cuz she was jealous of Zeus giving birth to Athena

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Faries

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  • abduct people and leave changelings in their place (similar to ufo abduction, kinda)

NYPHS in greek myths are faries

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Time jumping, memory, space jumping

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gods can slow time down or go forward in time to predict future

some gods can talk about the past (however far back)
- they remember everything very well

Croesus? something about the Delphi oracle and bronze turtles (search it up idk)
Apollo likes tripods? collects them?

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Ephemeral: lasting only a brief amount of time

Greeks thought: having a day on top of you?

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ajax story

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  • gonna barry his sword in backyard
  • messenger tells wife not let ajax leave tent
  • he was barrying sword in himself
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Medea (Witch)

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  • get out of to medea
  • shes like that takes time, gimme one day
  • king says he gotta bad feeling but lets her
  • rest of that day she kills the king, his daughters, and escapes on sun’s chariot to athens
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calendars

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every single greek city state had their own calendars, days, and new years day celebrations, etc.

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Roman calendar

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MARCH
year began in March for Mars
- campaign season began (olympics began)
APRIL:
- Venus

January:
- most sacred to Janos
- had 2 faces
- word: janitor (used to be door keeper)

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Space

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Acropoglis
- full of shrines to Athena
- various cult titles
- on the slopes is the theatre to Dionysus

Posiedon:
- little bathtub with harpoon
- he had quite a fan base in acropoglis
- wanted to give military control of sea power

no temples to Hera (OOP)

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salt?

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salt was essential for food preservation (cuz no fridges)

  • mine for it underground
  • in Italy it was obtained by scooping up sea water and letting water evaporate
  • best where sea was shallower
  • diasalaria (salt road)

seven hills in rome? numebr 7 is the sacred hill (coulnt agree whicH HILL)

hedged in mountains (hedge sounded like 7 so they got confused?)

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BRIDGeS

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