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32 Cards in this Set
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Abduction of Persephone (Kore) by Hades (10.2)
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Hades wanted to marry Persephone
Demeter’s daughter is Persephone -Goddess of fertility (grain and the harvest) -Sister of Zeus Demeter becomes distressed and stops the harvest -This how we get the season (winter, summer, spring, fall) Imbade tells Demeter jokes and flashes her genitals to cheer her -This apart of the Eleusinian Mysteries Gods get mad because they are not receiving sacrifices from the humans and tell Demeter where Hades is keeping Persephone |
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Eleusinian Mysteries (10.2)
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Broadly inclusive
-Could not be apart of it if you were a non-Greeks or murder (not purified) -Women and native Greeks were allowed 10 days of activity -Begins around September and October -4 day gathering -Day 5 is the procession in Athens -Then crude jokes and the flashing of genitals in the honor of Demeter Telesterion -Place of initiation of Eleusinian Mysteries (main temple) -Drunk the kykyion drink with hallucinogens properties (barley, mint leaves, egrot, meal, and water) -Fasting for a 14 mile hike -Hierophant is the high priest that live at the Telesterion -Hierophant shows the secrets to the initiated group Brimo the brimos the indignant or the and the indignant one -Scared ceremony between the priest and the priestess -This ceremony ensures that you have a happy after life |
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Practices of the Greek religion (10.2)
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-Too vast to sum up easily
-Honor gods through a number of means -Prayer -Hymns -Procession -Libations -Part of the sacrifice -First Fruits -The first of the harvest -Sacrifice -The bloodier the better -Ox – bloody the greatest sacrifice |
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Details of sacrifice (10.2)
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-Sacrifices washes hands
-Water is sprinkled on the victim -Prayer -Underground barely corn -Take hair from the victim -Throat cut -Blood splashed on the altar -Offering to the gods, thigh bones wrapped in fat -Prometheus tricked Zeus into taking something that was not his |
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Contest between Athena and Poseidon (10.2)
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-Happened west of the Parthenon
-This contest was to see who would be the patron of Athens -Poseidon would give the people a salt water spring -Athena gave people the olive tree and won |
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Black-figure pottery (10.2)
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-Tends to depict mythological or heroic scenes
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Red-figure pottery (10.2)
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-Focused on daily life
-More natural reflective of human skill |
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White-figure pottery (10.2)
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-Funerary vases
-Votive vases -A large amount of them are produce out of Corinth |
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Pericles (10.2)
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-Athenian statesmen
-495-429 BCE -Prominent in politics and military from 463 to his death -General each year from 443-429 BCE -Has a funny shaped hat |
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Pericles: Significant contributions to Athenian Life (10.2)
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-Proponent of Athenian imperialism of the 1940s
-Instituted pay for jurors -Citizens hip law Had a child with Aspasia, a Milesian prostitute -Public building program of the 440s and 430s |
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Pericles’ Strategy (11.1)
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-Withdraw
-From the war to protect their routes to ships and colonies Brings people from Attica into the walls of Athens -Harass - Sail south and harass the Peloponnesians and attack them |
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Pericles’ Funeral Orations (11.1)
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-Customs
-Bury the first dead from a war at public expense -Laid out in a public tomb -Speech offered by someone voted by the state for a wise judgment and high reputation |
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Blame laid on Pericles (11.1)
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-Negotiations begun with Sparta
-Would not call an assembly wanted to keep everyone in the city -Told them not to talk to the lacedaemonians -He agrees to call an assembly once the plague spread - Died in 429 |
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The Athenian Acropolis (Pericles’ building program) 11.1
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-449
-Acropolis -Central fortress -Principal sanctuary of Athena -Rebuild and advance from Persian desstrcution -Projects -Parthenon named after Athena the virgin goddess -Propylaea -Temple of Athena Nike -Erechtheum -Financed by allies’ tributes to Athena |
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Parthenon (10.2)
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-447-432 BCE
-Largest building in mainland Greece at the time |
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Propylaea (10.2)
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-437-432
-Entrance to acropolis -Marble columns consistent with those of Parthenon -Non religious building -Doric temple |
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Temple of Athena Nike (10.2)
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-420s
-8 m x 5 m -Victory -Overlooks Salamis -Ionic columns -had a base and two scrolls on each side |
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Alcibiades (13.2)
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-Emphasizes rhetoric over wealth
-Highly prominent -Highly attractive -Well raised -Adopted by the statesman Pericles -Somewhat lacking in character -Wants Socrates to be his lover -tried to seduce him |
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Euripides (11.1)
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-480s-406 BCE
-Athenian -Wrote ~90 plays, starting in 455 (Daughters of Pelias). -Died before his last three plays (Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Alcmaeon in Corinth) could be performed -Won only four times in his career -Famous for tradegy -Electra -Produced between 419 and 413 -New take on an old story -Medea (431 BCE), Trojan Women (415), and Bacchae (written 406, produced 401 BCE) -Ambiguous morality -Accurate portrayals of people in various circumstances -Aristotle, Poetics: Sophocles portrayed people as they ought to be; Euripides portrayed people as they are. |
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Men dressing up as women (11.2)
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-Slave boys dressed as women and play the women roels
-All male cast |
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Aristophones (13.2)
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-Old comedy
-5th century Athenians -characteristics are often bumbling or disretuable -Gist of his speech -Too much anaylsis does not square with a comdey -Love for the other half -Was not make a speech for self-jusification |
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Hetaera with a costumer
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Prostitue
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Men at the Symposium
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-Occasion time to talk with your lover and pick a lover
-Correlation between drinking prowess and speech sophistication -the weakest speakers went first -the more you drank the better speech giver you were -Speeches: speakers Self-justification-reason for giving the speech |
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Erechtheum (10.2)
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-421-407 BCE
-Erechtheum baby out of the ground, half man half snake, femme figures -Four compartments Replaced a temple of Athena Housed a number of ancient cults Erechtheus |
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Architectural orders (10.2)
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Doric
-OnlyNortheast Peloponnese Ionic -Asia Minor -Corinthian -Corinth (has leaves) See p. 169 -Be able to identify each one Do not need to master terms beyond just the three orders |
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Socrates (13.2)
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-469-399 BCE
-Athenian -Students Plato Thinker -Xenophon Practical advisor -wisdom was very practical -attracts people he who is pregnat with ideas -Friend went to the delphic oracle, who told him is the wisest man on the planet -Socrates went out of ghis way to show eveyone he is the wisest man -He is the wisest man he knows he knows nothing |
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Socrates Cross-Examination of Agathon (13.2)
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-Love is relative: always of something ( Socratic method of question, use anwers to lead them to his question)
Lover must lack this something (love something in a desiring way) -Love desires what is beautiful Love must thus itself not be beautiful(can not be the only thing you are ttracted to) |
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Socrates’ speech: learned from Diotima (13.2)
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Love:
not a god Not attractive and good in every respect (gods are attractive and beautiful) also not a mortal (in between) spirit who communicates between gods and humans child of Poverty and Plenty (had sex and gave birth to love Bigger ideas Love can bridge the gap between world of senses and world of intellect Sensory yearning can lead to spiritual satisfaction |
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Object of love
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Possess goodness forever
Means: “birth and procreation in a beautiful medium” Substitute for immortality true love brings immorality -needs happiness to grow in our indentity |
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Two kinds of pregnancy (socrates (13.2)
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Physical
Goal: immortality through fame (achilles) Heterosexual reproduction Mental Goal: immortality of virtue and wisdom (desire for knowledge) Reproduction of these values through education of a loved one -connect with someone who is like-mimded and will help you to grow -Love is the pregnancy that is trying to get ulgness in any form kills pregnancy, seperates you from love |
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Hierarchy of love
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Steps toward taking the most from love:
Focus on physical beauty of one person Give birth to beautiful reasoning Recognize the beauty of all bodies Recognize mental beauty Recognize the beauty of people’s actions and institutions Recognize the beauty of knowledge more broadly Give birth to more expansive beautiful reasoning. Eventual goal: recognize beauty itself |
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Criticisms of Socrates (13.2)
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-Sophist
-Religious dissenter Aristophanes’ Clouds Plato’s Apology -Unpopular associates Critias (leader) Alcibiades (blamed him for the Athenian loose) -Formal charges: Not recognizing the gods of the polis (believed in demigods) Corrupting the youth |
