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23 Cards in this Set
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Homer |
Archaic Greece, Illias (end of the Trojan war, Achilles, Hector, Agnamenon), Oddysey (Odysseus to Ithaca, Penelope, Telemachus) |
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Anacreont |
Archaic Greece, Anacreontian / drunk man's poetry |
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Ezop |
Archaic Greece, Fables |
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Sapfo |
Archaic Greece, Melics (poetry and music, island Lesbos) |
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Thespis |
Classical Greece, 1st protagonist |
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Aischylos |
Classical Greece, 2nd actor on stage, Oresteia (Orestes, son of Agamemnon) |
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Sofocles |
Classical Greece, King Oidipus (kills his father, marries his mother), Antigone |
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Euripides |
Classical Greece, Iphigenia in Aulis (-> Goethe: Iphigenia on Talidis), Medeia |
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Aristophanes |
Classical Greece, comedies |
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Herodotos |
Classical Greece, History |
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Demosthenes |
Classical Greece, rhetorics, filipics (defenses of Athens against Philip II.), first claimed that rhetorics is not a gift of gods |
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Socrates |
Classical Greece, philosopher, Xantipa |
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Plato |
Classical Greece, philosopher, student of Socrates (The Defense of Socrates), The Consitution, founder of the Academy |
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Aristotle |
Classical Greece, philosopher, student of Plato, most influential, Poetics, Rhetorics, teacher of Alexander the Great |
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Plautus |
Archaic Rome, comedies, Comedy of the Bucket |
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Cicero |
Classical Rome, most influential Roman prosaic, example of classical Latin |
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Vergilius |
Classical Rome, poet, favorite of Augustus, Aeneis (continuation of Illias, perfect Roman) |
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Horatius |
Classical Rome, satire, favorite of Augustus |
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Seneca |
Silver period of Rome, philosopher and poet, teacher of Nero |
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Arbiter |
Silver period of Rome, arbiter of matters of taste |
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Marcus Aurelius |
Decline of Rome, emperor and philopher, Meditations (Dialogs With Oneself) |
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Saint Augustin (August) |
Decline of Rome, patristics (teachings of church fathers) |
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Ovidius |
Classical Rome, poet, Augustus banished him, 3 eras: romantic poetry, mythological poetry (Metamorfoses -> Pygmalion), depressing poetry |
