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Aristotle
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-Greek philosopher
-Believes that when body dies soul dies -Tubula rasa blank slate, all knowledge comes from experience. |
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Plato
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-Philosopher in clasical greece
-Believes in innate knowledge -Believes in eternal, imortal, think/understanding soul |
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Dialectic
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-A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction -Made popular by Plato in the Socratic Diologues. -Thesis(idea)> antithesis(negation) > synthesis(new idea)= repeat
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Socratic Dualism
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noun. the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil
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Atomism
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-Leucippus and Democritus
-(psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association |
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Theory of Forms
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-Platonic idea in reality of being everything has an idea
-One of platos theories -How can humans live a fulfilling, happy life in a contingent |
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Dionysus
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-Son of zeus and Semele
-Good of wine and firtility -Titans eat him,semele swallows him, ends up being born from zeus thigth |
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Maenads
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-Frindy women followers of Dionysus -Eat orpheus -Wonder wildness killing animals.
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Orpheus
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-Great musician and poetic -Went to under world for wife Eurydice -Hades agree under one condition to not look back that he couldnt keep
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Orphism
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-10 orphic cycles
100 yrs living 900 in underworld 10000 yrs soul accends to heaven |
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Demeter
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-Goddess of agriculture -Persephone is her daughther -Are part of Elusium Mysteries
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Persephone
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-Daughter of Demeter -Hedes steals her to the underworld -Gives her back with the condition that she had to return for 1/3 of the year
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Eleusian Mysteries
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-Initiation ceremonies held for the cult of Demeter and Persephone -The myths represent the abduction of Persephone -Showing of sacred objects like sexual organs
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Teleology
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-Everything has a purpose/goal -Studied by both plato and aristotle -The essence of something that serves a purpose
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Deontology
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-Moral decision making -Deon meaning duty, considering end results -Socratise trial of death
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Virgil
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-Roman poet -Wrote the Aneid -Wanted to destroy it
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Aeneas
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-Demi god -Didos lover (commits suicide) -Travels to underworld where he meets with dido and his father again
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Propaganda
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-Painting
-Sculptures -Mass influence |
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Alba Longa
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-City of ancient latium -City founded by iulus -Roman enemies
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Dido
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-Founder and queen carthage -Romance with Aeneas -Kills herself when he leaves
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Venus
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-Goddess of love -Mother or Aeneas defends her son against juno -Benefactor of trojans
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Romulus and Remus
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-Twins bothers -raised by wolf -founders of rome
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The golden bough
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-symbol Aeneas must carry in order to gain access to the underworld. - The golden bough is therefore the sign of Aeneas’s special privilege come back from underworld -Found in the garden hesperives
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Julius Ceasar
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-Roman general -murder from senatus -Returns to rome 3 triumph
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Augustus Ceaser
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-Octavian hand pick successor -Founder Roman empire -first emperor
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Brutus
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-Statesman of Rome -Conspiracy to murder julius ceaser -was friends with him
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Pax Romana
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-Roman peace -begin with murder or Augustus -200yr period of peace amd economic prosperity
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Carthage
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-punic war
-romans destroyed it -Invaded and took over |
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Punic Wars
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-3 wars between rome and carthage -conflict of interests between the existing Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic -Rome won
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