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101 Cards in this Set
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Diachronic |
Study of something through time
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Synchronic |
Study of something at a momet in time |
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Reception Studies |
Emphasize reader's ability to create meaning from text. Texts can have different meanings in different times/places. no static meaning. |
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Eros |
Sexual love. Greek god, playful/naughty. spoiled & young. follows mother. |
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Philia |
Familial love. Friendship, family, brotherly. Accompanies sexual love. Greek. |
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Hubris |
Wrongful, insulting, excessive behavior. Infringing on another's rights to degrade them. Assault/theft/rape. excessive pride |
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Amor |
Romand word for love. encompasses eros/philia |
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Pudor/ Pudicitia |
Shame. Men being cowards in battle. Sexual modesty/chastity for women. her "honor" |
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Aidos |
Inhibition holding one back from socially unacceptable action. Respect, shame. |
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Cinaedus |
Effeminancy. Men who pay attention to grooming hair, etc. pansy. not real man. |
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Hetaira |
High class prostitute. Geisha, call girl. Aspasia |
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Meretrix |
Prostitute. Worked in brothels, specific clthing. |
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One seed model |
Only man supplies seed (plow) while woman is dirt/flower pot |
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Two seed model |
Both partners contribute seed/material to offspring |
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Four humors |
Black bile (cold dry) Yellow bile (hot dry) (men) Phlegm (cold wet) (women) Blood (hot wet) |
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Four qualities |
Hot (active) Cold (passive) Wet (emotionally stable) Dry (emotionally unstable) |
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Four temperaments |
Phlegmatic Sanguine Melancholic Choleric |
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Medicalization of female body |
Females inherently need medical intervention Biologically/mentally unstable |
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Pandora |
First woman, "gift from all gods" |
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Bitch-mind |
Dog in heat? lots of puppies. |
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Womb-jar |
Ravenous gaster (stomach) or pithos (jar) Appetite. empty space to be filled |
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Ethical subject |
Bind/mind are separate things Blame behind disease shifted from gods to individual Patient causes disease, not offedned gods |
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Hysteria |
All in your mind Womb, when dry, flings to other organs to get moisture catch-all diagnosis |
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Hippocrates |
5th century BCE medical writer |
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Galen |
Describes hysterike pnix (hysterical suffocation) Attribute symptoms to retention of blood/seed |
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Plato |
Philosopher, use animal metaphors to talk about body parts |
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Soranus |
Womb is held in place by ligaments, doesn't move Use bloodletting, not fumigation of vagina |
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Zeus |
lots of affairs main god of sky/lightning |
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Hera |
God of hearth, family. zeus' wife |
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Athena |
Product of zeus + metis Goddess of war/battle |
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Aphrodite |
Eros-type love |
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Demeter & persephone |
Persephone = demeter/zeus daughter Hades steals persephone Grain dies when demeter realizes Allegory for marriage? |
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Bacchic Rites |
God of wine, son of semele/zeus Phallus = fertility, luck bacchus inspires manic stuff |
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Cybele |
"Great mother", Attis' companion attended by eunuchs Kills attis |
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Priapus |
Minor, rural god Fertility/obscenity. huge dick. Rapes if you steal from him |
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Goddesses sleeping with mortals (vs gods) |
Gods it's ok. Goddessess there's shame, not ok. |
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3 virgin goddesses |
Aphrodite, hestia, artemis |
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Aphrodite in love |
Anchises thinks aphrodite is goddess they have sex. anchsis is scared, since mortals can't handle god sex |
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Punishment of hippolytus |
Hippolytus doesn’t worship Aphrodite, worships Artemis instead. Theadra = stepmom of Hippolytus. Punishment = Theadra & Hippolytus fall in loveThanks, Aphrodite. Theadra rejected by Hippolytus Covers up rejection by rape Punished by Poseidon. |
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Aristophane's origins of love |
2 aphrodites: common & heavenly 4 armed & 4 legged humans, 2 people toegether split in pairs as punishment people long for 'other half' |
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Psyche |
Soul/mind Venus is jealous of psyche Sends cupid to make her love an ugly dude |
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Ovid's creation |
Chaos = mess creator is a god love not a part of creation |
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Hesiod's creation |
Chaos = nothing/void 4 beings 'emerge' as creators Eros is one |
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The flood |
All humans were killed in a flood, restart world |
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Deucalion & Pyrrha |
First man/women after flood (good people) pyrrha is pious |
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Venus & Adonis |
love changes venus neglects duties, only cares about adonis follows adonis in hunting, becomes like artemis loves like a virgin |
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Atalanta & hippomenes |
atalanta = oracle, has suitors challenges suitors to outrun her failing to outrun her = death, else marriage hippomenes wins b/c venus helps her after marriage, ungrateful, don't pray to venus turned into lions |
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Virginitas |
Untouched, appealing to men. 3 parts. 1/3 father, mother, yourself. sanctitity of household |
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Castitas |
Chastity. young girls, no kissing. married women, fidelity |
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Clodia |
accused of being meretrix, doing married things w/ caelius, but aren't married |
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Caelius |
allegedly poisons mistress, clodias. chaste, everything in moderation. "too devoted to studying" |
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double standard |
caelius/clodia treated different from same contact/action |
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different standards in rome/greece |
Stage career in greece fine, scandalous in romeOlympic games in greece, not rome (cause nude)Dinner parties scandalous in greece, not room (women have role in house) |
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Chlorosis (green sickness) |
anemia. pale face, short breath, swollen ankles, aversion to food (meat) |
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Case of anna |
Lange diagnosis anna via letter problem w/ marriage, sick anna can't get engaged 'disease of virgins' cites hippocrates, use bloodletting virginity of disease |
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parthenos |
used for virgin, also young girls temple dedicated to athena, virgin goddess |
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Artemis |
reflects danger w/ arrow. protect chastity w/ violence |
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Athena |
masculine virginity. disinterest in sex, likes strategy/skilled work |
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hestia |
conservative, guards hearth/sanctity of home. |
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Moikheia |
adultery |
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Pornai |
low class prostitutes, property of pimps. |
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Hipparchai |
Not interest in philo in love with Crates, head of philo school marries him, but has to practice crate's philosophy |
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pythagorean women |
treated better, since souls could be reincarnated gendre more fluid |
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aspasia |
consort of pericles teacher of rhetoric ghostwriter for pericle's speeches? |
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diotima |
priestess/sexpert in love written in plato's symposium might not be real centers on pregnancy/birth in writing |
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leontion |
courtesan to Epicurus
discounted work b/c she's a courtesan Epicureanism tinged with hedonism |
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hypatia |
head of Neoplatonic school in alexandria Chaste, scares young man with menstrual rag to turn off advances Martyr, killed for political reasons |
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Aristophanes |
wrote plays, assemblywomen. men playing women dressing up like men |
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Greek old comedy |
era where aritophanes lived in |
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Parrhesia |
right to speak freely can't interfere w/ ability of city state to function |
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Polis |
city state |
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Demos |
citizens |
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Metatheater |
referencing the theater inside of the theater. meta.. |
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Peloponnesian war |
431 - 404 BC, develop athens/spartans militaries |
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Athenian democracy |
Athen's government. each man has a vote on issues |
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Spartan oligarchy |
Sparta's government. A cohort of people have votes on issues |
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Peitho |
Goddess that embodies persuasion and seducation |
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Virtus |
Courage |
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Horatious Cocles |
Military officer, defedned sublician bridge |
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Regulus |
Consul, 3rd BC. Captured by carthaginians Released to negotiate peace w/ senate tells senate not to give in. returns to captivity voluntarily |
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Cato the younger |
Poltician, opposes caesar, republican killed self instead of seeing republic end |
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Mos Maiorum |
Customs of ancestors run things on principle |
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Paterfamilias |
Father of family ultimate power over wives/children/slaves including life/death situation decides marraige, etc |
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Patria potestas |
Power of the father father decides marriages, disowning/killing children, etc. |
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Cursus Honorum |
Ladder of honors to get to the head of roman politics |
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Hermaphroditus |
Virgin, doesn't want love pursued by aggressive women views becoming feminine as curse |
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Perseus |
Slays medusa w/ help of hermes & winged feet |
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Boar hunt |
heroes = men, atalanta, caenus men kill boar atalanta gets spoils b/c she got first hit men try to steal fight violation of hierarchy of gender |
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Cycnus |
Son of poseidon literally impenetrable achilles tries to kill him, feels impotent dies by strangulation |
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Isomachus |
Isomachus sees wife putting make up on "you're beautiful not being fake" she wants to be better wife he's like "clean and cook!" she's like "k" filial love, displayed using speech/action |
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Iphis
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born as woman changed to biological male b/c father rejects her raised by mother |
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Bassa |
chaste, nothign to do w/ men prefers women "body thinks its male" clitoris is phallus? |
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Philainis |
athletic, drinks, eats steak, maleish woman bisexual |
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Sappho / Sapphic |
Sappho is model of female desire poet/teacher on isle of lesbos origin of "lesbian" writes love poetry about young women |
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Lesbos / Lesbian |
lesbos = island where sappho is from lesbian = person from lesbos, and later on gay woman |
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kalos-kai-agathos |
beautiful & good |
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Thesmophoria |
religious festival celebrating demeter & kore (persephone) very mysterious no men only married women secret women not literary, so not a lot of osurces |
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euripides |
very famous author of tragedies euripides accused of revealing secrets of women through is heroine's actions on stage |
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Kore |
At thesmophoria, pigs sacrified/buried reference to hades abducting kore |
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Bacchae by Euripides |
talks about how dionysus makes women crazy, have orgies Women at thesmophoria deal with sexual female fears |
