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women of legend prescribed sources Flashcards

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what famous greek author tells us the story of pandora

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hesoid

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which of hesoid’s poems tells the story of pandora

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works and days

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what does hesoids works and days tell us

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  • zeus explains to prometheus the curse that he is going to put onto man kind.
  • He asked Hephaestus, Athena, Aphrodite and Hermes to help create pandora.
  • He does this by asking each of them to give her gifts that no men can refuse .
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what is the other poem that hesoid writes that is also a prescribed source

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theogany

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who was theogany written by

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hesoid

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what does hesoid theogany tell us

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  • In theogony, we learn more about hesoid’s views towards women
  • Hesiod focuses on evil, bad influence, immorality, deceit and running away from marriage when describing pandora
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would other greek men have the same view has hesoid

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  • other greek men may have the same opinion as Hesiod because the gods made pandora and pandora was a depiction of women.
  • Therfore, the greek me probably think all women were as troublesome and tempting as pandora.
  • Leaving them to resent, the female species .
  • However, this was forced on pandora so maybe some greek men if they had any sympathey or heart they would feel empathy for pandora .
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what two sources that tell the story of helen of troy

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the illiad by homer and euripdes helen

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who was the illiad written by

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homer

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who si livvy

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roman historian

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what is the history of rome based on

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myth and not proper historical investigation

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who wrote the history of rome

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livvy

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why was the history of rome by livvy so important

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it is an importtatn work of history to the romans because it tells their national story

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what happens during homer’s illiad

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helen regrets her decision to go with Paris and suffers the consequences, the elder want her gone

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how is helen portrayed in homer’s illiad

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  1. as complex becayse she commits adultuary but her skills show virue by weaving . conflicint image
  2. shown as a pawn or a prize to be won for the Gods
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what do other think of helen in homer’s illiad

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  1. traitor to the greeks
  2. has committed adultery which is the greatest shame as a women
  3. untrustworthy
  4. manipulative
  5. lack of self control
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what does helen think about herself in homer’s illiad

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  1. regret choice to go with Paris
  2. wishes herself dead than to be with him
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what genre is homer’s illiad

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epic poetry

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what genre is euprides’s helen

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tragic drama

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when was euripides’s helen written

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C.8th BC

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when was homer’s illiad writen

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412 BC

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what happens during eurpides’ helen

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  1. helen did not go to troy in this version of the play
  2. hera and athena were offended
  3. hera took helen and put her in egypt
  4. a phantom helen is with Paris while real helen chills in egyppt
  5. menelause goes to egypt with phantom helen and on the way back finds the real helen
  6. in the play, she is struck in troy for most of the trojan war
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how is helen portrayed in euripides’s play

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  1. none of what happened is her fault
  2. zeus it at fault
    3.because he created the war between the troha s and the greeks for population increase, to make greece great and to establish leaders
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what do others think of helen in eurpides’s play

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  1. betrayed menelause
  2. went to troy with Paris
  3. because of this her reputation is ruined
  4. looks like she cheated on menelause
  5. in that time, for a women to cheat on her husband was seen as disrespectfil
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what does helen think about herself in eurpides’s play

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  1. she has suffered a lot because of pairs and the trohan war
    2, blames hera jealously
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how was lucretia viewed at the time livvy was writing

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  1. people didn’t think it was her thought and was believed to be innocent
  2. she a victim
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from livy, history of rome, who is sextus tarquinus in the story of lucretia

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son of the king

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from livy, hsitroy of rome, what were the roman nobleman arguing about at the dinner party in tarquinius’ house (lucretia)

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arguing whos wofe was the most modest

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from livy, history of rome, what did Collatinus say about his wife lucretia

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that she was greater than all other wives

30
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from livy, history of rome, what did the men decide to do (lucretia)

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go to there on horse to rome and see how modest their wives were being

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from livy, history of rome, what were the other wives found to be doing (lucreatia)

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at a dinner party

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from livy, history of rome, what was lucreatia doing when they burst in ?

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she was weaving, this shows her modesty

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from livy, history of rome, w0ho won the prize for being the most virtuous wife (lucretia)

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lucretia

34
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from livy, history of rome, after seeing how virtous and beautiful lucreatia was what did sextus tarquinus want to do

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take lucreatia by foce because of her beauty and rape her

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from livy, history of rome, what did sexstus tarquinus do a few days later (lucreatia)

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he travelled to collatinus house while he was away and while everyone was sleeping

36
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from livy, history of rome, what did sexstus do when everyone was a sleep (lucreatia)

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drew his sword and went to lucretia, he then said if she makes a sound then he will stab her. he then rapes her

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from livy, history of rome, how did Lucretia react to the threat of death

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she was not afraid

38
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from livy history of rome, when sextus tarquinus released that lucretia was not afraid of death he made another threat, what was this threat

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1.he threatened to slaughter a servant and put him naked next to lucreatia
2. this was so that it looks like she had an affair with him

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from livvy history of rome, what is lucreatua’s emotional reaction the rape

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  1. she was devestated and sad
  2. sends a message to her dad and husband
40
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from livvy history of rome, who did the men say was to blame ? (lucreatia)

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the men blamed sextus

41
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from livvy history of rome, who did lucreatia believe was to blame

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  1. she blamed herself a bit
  2. it was mainly his fault
  3. she is no longer modest
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from livvy histroy of rome, what did lucreatia do to punish herself

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  1. kills herself
  2. because if all the b;ae
  3. and the cause of her reputation being ruined
43
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from livvy history of rome, what did brutus do with lucretia’s body

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  1. pulls the knife from lucreatia’s b ody
  2. carried it to the forum
44
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from livvy history of rome (lucreatia), what happened to kind tarquinius and his family

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they wete exiled

45
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from livvy hsitroy of rome, how do you feel about brutus using lucreatia body like this ?

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  1. he shouldnt use her body as a reason
    2, not respectfil and it was offence to display the boy
46
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from livvy history of rome (sabine women) who was romulus

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  1. first of king of rome
  2. founder of rome
47
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from livy history of rome (sabine rome ) what problem was rome facing

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they had no women

48
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from livy history of rome (sabine women), romulus sent out envoys to neighbouring states. what did these envoys ask

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for their daughter because they had no women
asked for marriage

49
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from livy history of rome (sabine women) what did romulus arrange and who did he invite

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he arranged the party and invited all neighbouring states

50
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from livy history of rome (sabine women ) what happened when romulus gave the signal

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the men kidnapped the women and wanted them to their wives

51
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from livy history of rome (sabine women) what happened to the most beautiful sabine women

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  1. ear marked for the most importnat senator
  2. senators are members of the patrician class
  3. the most importnat men have the most beautiful women
52
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from livy history of rome (sabine women ) of what crime did the parents of the silent girls accuse romulus

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violating hospiltiaty
this was a big deal during roman times

53
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from livy history rome (sabine women ) romulus went to the abducted girls and explained to them why this had happened. who did je say was to blame and why?

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  1. blamed parents because he asked to marry
  2. accused parents being arrogant and refusing to give their children up
54
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from livy history rome ( sabine women) romulus said that the girls would be entitled to share of romes wealth and they should accept their . what was their response

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  1. became affecctionate and less angru
  2. interest gave wat for affection
55
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from livvy histroy rome (sabine women )the parents of the sabine women waged war on rome and tried to get their daughters and wives back but what was the problem

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  1. they would die than cause war
56
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what is story of tarpeia

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  1. tarpeia goes out to get water
  2. the king calls her through the gate to let them through
  3. she says only if she gets jewellery
  4. she lets them through the gate
  5. they yhre their shields at her
  6. she is dead, they killed her `

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