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19 Cards in this Set
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Lyric poetry |
*Written for a specific occasion *Express the speaker's inner thoughts and feelings *Names from the Lyre |
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Sappho |
Lesbos 600 B. C. Equal to Homer Only fragments of her poems remain |
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Red-figure technique |
The background of a scene was entirely painted and the Figures were left unpainted except for fine details of anatomy |
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3 types of sculpture and characteristics |
Archaic : rigid symmetry, geometric hair dressing Egyptian influence, archaic smile Classical : pre-motion , s curve, ideal form Hellenistic :tells a story, movement, emotion |
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Golden age |
Period of prosperity and accomplishment |
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Democracy |
Rule by the people |
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Polis |
City state. Adult male citizens are part of Polis |
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Role of women in ancient Rome |
Wife, a slave or a prostitute. |
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Hetaerae |
Foreign women employed as courtesans entertainers and prostitutes. Highly educated skill dancers and musicians |
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Origin of theater |
Dionysus |
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Set up of stage |
Theatron (viewing place) Skene (housed props) Orchestra (stage) |
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3 tragedian playwrights and influence |
Aeschylus : reduced role of the chorus. Added 2nd actor making true dialogue possible. Oresteia Sophocles :may have written 123 only 7 known. Added 3rd actor. Writes people as they should be. Pity and fear tragedy Euripides : tragedies were filled with the realism and social commentary. Used unorthodox characters and plots. Medea-pathos or pity and sorrow |
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Comedy |
When the audience feels Superior to a character who is degraded in some way physically mentally emotionally |
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Aristophanes |
The clouds |
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The sophists:method of teaching (sophistry) |
Profesional teachers. Taught through debate sophistry was verbal trickery |
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Socrates |
Method of teaching socratic method =question and answer. Tried for corrupting youth. |
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Plato theory of forms |
Sense experience vs. Rational contemplation/allegory of the cave |
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Aristotle |
Prized careful observation of the world as it actually existed. Humans by Nature desire to know. Define human happiness of the act of knowing. |
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The Golden mean |
Happiness lies in the balance of two extremes |
