Classics 140 - Final

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Eros

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Lust, Libido, Beauty, Fertility, Deity

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Hesiod's Theogony

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First entities in the universe

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Chaos

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Abyss, gap, emptiness, out of Chaos springs Gaia, a primordial god

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Gaia

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Earth

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Uranus

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Sky

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Eros

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Motivated interaction between Uranus and Gaia, leading to titans

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Tartarus

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Underworld/afterlife: there is no good or bad afterlife, everybody goes to the same place, but with different treatings, travel there through river Styx

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Erebus

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Darkness, son of Chaos

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Trojan War

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Waged against the city of Troy by Achaeans. Narrated in the Illiad and Odyssey by Homer

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Helen

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Wife of Menelaus, cause of the Trojan War - important for studying Eros in the ancient world

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Pandora

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First woman, blamed for unleashing all of the world's ills on mankind

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Virgil

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Classical Roman poet, wrote the aenied, followed Homer's Illiad and Odyssey

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Presocratics

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Before Socrates, connected abstract/nature/natural phenomena rather than mythological, explained why things are

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Socrates

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Classical Greek Athenian philosopher who questioned everything

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Plato

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First systematic philosopher, student of Socrates, wrote "the Aplogoy of Socrates"

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Aristotle

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Student of Plato. Taught alexander the great, believed in what the eye could see

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Euripides

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Third tragedian, most tragic, wrote Bacchae

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Julius Caesar

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Crossed rubicon in 49 bc, displayed his ego and was assassinated. Critical role into Roman empire from republic. Blamed for burning library of alexandria

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Bacchae

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Tragedy by Euripides; King pentheus punished by Dionysus for refusing to worship her. Torn to pieces

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Ovid

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wrote metamorphoses, fired by Augustus for writing about love/sex

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Metamorphoses

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by ovid, characters turned into other things as punishment for their hubris

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Daedalus

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Human master craftsman; built wings of feathers with wax for him and his sun to escape the palace of Minos. Created the wooden bull

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Arachne

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from metamorphoses; best weaver on earth, wanted to compete with Minerva; hubris - student beats teacher, but turned to a spider

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Weaving

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what Arachne did best, woman's craft given by Athena/Minerva

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Spider

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What Minerva/athena turned Arachne into after winning a weaving contest

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Niobe

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boasted as best mom on earth, seven daughters and sons. Better than Leo/Latona because they only have 2 children

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Midas

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Helped Dionysus' teacher, the Satyr Silenus, without even knowing him, and is granted a wish. Wishes that everything he touches turns to white gold, can't eat. exiled, apollo gives him donkey ears

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Gold

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Midas' selfish wish

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Dionysus

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God of wine/intoxication. In Bacchae, Pentheus questions him for his rituals, and says king will regret forbidding his people from worshipping him.

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Icarus

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Son of Daedalus, made wax wings to escape Mino's palace - Flew too close to the sun and his wings melted, causing him to drown in Icarian Sea

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Hubris

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Roman Empire. Pride - misplaced honor. Types: Pentheus - refusing to worship gods, Icarus - behaved like gods, Arachne - challenged gods, Niode - compared herself to gods, Midas- failure to consider human limitation

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Maenads

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Female followers of Dionysus, symbolic of genophobia (fear of sex)

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Odysseus

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participated in one of first romances in Ancient World. Penelope waited ten years for him when he was at sea and Trojan war

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Penelope

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Odysseus' wife. Shrewd, promises to marry when she finishes weaving, but cheats. waits for her husband

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King Pentheus

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king of pain; banned the women from worshipping Bacchae, killed by his mother Agave, torn limb by limb

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Eleusinian Mysteries

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Most popular mystery religion, idea of preparing people for death. What women were involved in

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Thebes

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In egypt, women worshiped Dionysus here

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Agave

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Tears her son Pentheus apart in the tragedy Bacchae

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Minos

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King of Crete, fed children to the Minotaur, palace where daedalus and icarus are held

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Dictator

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Julius Caesar called himself this, ruler who assumes sole and absolute power.

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Princeps

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Determined the leader in Ancient Rome at beginning of Roman Empire, created imperial system under augustus

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Athena

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Godess of war/wisdom/strategy/weaving. Transformed arachne into a spider after losing the weaving contest

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Athens

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largest city-state of Greece. Leaked hubris out of every orifice. Moved treasury out of Delos into heart of city for tournaments and games

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Herodotus

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Father of history, work based off of mythic tradition, compared to Homer. upped the wow factor

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Thucydides

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Greek historian, lived through Pelopponesian War. Analytical, crticized herodtus for being too homeric.

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Leto

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Mother of twins apollo and Artemis, in the story Niobe

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Apollo

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Killed Niobe's seven sons. God of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, and medicine

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Artemis

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Killed Niobe's seven daughters. Mistress of the wild, twin of apollo

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Suetonius

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wrote history of the emperors of Rome, more intereseted in the mythical sides of story

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Tacitus

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interested in the now; no more focus on the past or mythical stories. Senator and historian of roman empire

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Caligula

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Julius Caesar - roman emperor from 37 to 41 - most notable for his crude personality. Bipolar, married his sister

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Claudius

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Last heir of Augustus. Beautiful only if mouth shut and stood still. loved to eat

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Nero

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Sexually crudest emperor ever. Burned Rome down, intimate relations with his mother. Became a furry, donned animal skin and and would attack and rape people

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Augustus

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First emperor of Rome, ruled in a time of peace. Could work the people and senate to his favor

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Pygmalion

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Poem by Ovid, sculptor who fell in love with his ivory sculpture of the perfect woman. Aphrodite turned his statue into a real woman.

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Satire

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Literary genre or form, common feature is irony or sarcasm. Lack of structure, revolutionary of the time

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Horace

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Court poet by Augustus, lyric poet who sang the praise of a life of luxury and sets a tone that leads the idea that roman life is the best

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Juvenal

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Roman satirist, author of Satires

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Pericles

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Statesman in Athens, led Athens into Pelopponesian War

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Zeus

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God of lightning thunder, lord of gods on Mt. Olympus

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Aphrodite

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Goddess of lust, married to Hephaestus but affairs with Aries

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Rome

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capital of empire.