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51 Cards in this Set
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epithets
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short descriptive phrase
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xenia
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guest friendship
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iphigenia
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no wind so they had to sacrifice the youngest daughter
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in medias res
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in the middle of things
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Briseis
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achille's slave, beautiful, stolen by agememnon
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time (teemay)
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honor
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arete
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excellence
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kleos
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glory/fame
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duel of ajax and hector
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evenly matched, tie, scene of respect and honor, trade items
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harmatia
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tragic flaw, error in judgement,
achilles' is not taking the good s--t agam offered and that patrocles dies hektor's is his pride, reputation |
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achilles' new armor
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made by haphaestus, thetis gets it to him
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ekphrasis
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description of a work of art
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nostos
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homecoming
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Calypso
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odysseus trapped on island, waiting homecoming, journey is just starting
unbalanced animus/anima |
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Circe
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Sexes Ody up, turns people into pigs, they hang around for a while, finally leave to go to underworld
ody and circe balanced animus/anima |
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The laestrygonians
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throw giant rock at their ships, ody's in still in the harbor
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animus/anima
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male/female forces
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ketabasis
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hero's journey to the underworld
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tiresias
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blind prophet, tells him of the cattle of hylios, dont eat them
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achilles in the odyssey
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regret having his name just remembered, would rather have been poor and unimportant and alive
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sirens
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ody tied to boat to listen, crew has wax
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island of helios
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crew eats cows after starving, caught in storm, crew dies, ody holds on goes back to calypso
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satyr drama
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accompanied tragedies, raunchy, funny
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Eklyklema
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rolling out to make the background look like scenery
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mechane
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lifted props for dramas
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aeschylus
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author of Oresteia- agem's nostos
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foreboding
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used in "Agamemnon", the guard knows something, clytemnestra being sneaking
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chorus
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the old men of argos
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hubris
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extreme pride/arrogance
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Cassandra
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prophet and sister of hector. apollo wanted to sleep w/ her she said yes, then changed opinion. describes agam's and clyt's murder.
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clytemnestra
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agam's wife, shows no remorse for killing him, he killed her favorite kid
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the furies
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god-women of the same age as aphrodite
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Orestes
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comes back from exile to kill mother Clyt with electra, apollo said to
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omphalos
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naval or belly button
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Athenian democracy
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the ekklisia: citizens
council of 500: schedule archous: 10 leaders of ekklisia stretgoi: generals 10 elected lwa courts: 200-2000 a case, random |
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Athena's decision in euminides
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orestes innocent, killing a mother is not killing family, she came only from a father
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how athena calms the furies
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gives them the worship of the athenian people
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etiological myth
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tells how something came about
euminides: explains democracy, jury |
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structuralist viewpoint
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opposites
light b dark fem b masculine old v young |
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jason's 3 tasks were
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plow field with fire breathing oxen, sow field with dragon's teeth, fight dragon, it falls asleep.
medea helps with all of this |
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jungian archetype
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medea is a helper maiden in the epic, the antagonist in the tragedy
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medea's plans
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changes to plan to kill all around jason, his wife and her own kids
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thyrsus
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dionysus' staff
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semele
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sexed up zeus, had dionysus, killed by zeus
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dythyramb
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where tragedy originated
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pentheus
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guy who doesn't believe dionysus is a god, cross dresses, gets killed by aunt
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cadmus
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pentheus' grandpa, tells him he should accept he has god in his blood
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bacchae
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asian bacchae are the normal followers of Dio
Dio's family also become bacchae and eat pentheus |
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tanagra
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killing an animal as tradition
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agave
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pentheus mom who kills him
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peripereia
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reversal, what we least expect
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