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Hamartia

Fatal Flaw

Hubris

Arogance, belittlement of the Gods

Kudos

Fame, renown

Kleos

Glory after death

Aidos

Shame, or Fear of Shame

Nemesis

Feeling of anger towards those who lack shame, fear of shame.

What Hector feels for Paris

Oikos

Family or kin group

Nomos

Customs, traditions, laws on a small scale.

Menen

Wrath

Anagnorisis

Realisation of truth or flaw

Peripeteia

Reversal of circumstances

Moira

Fate

Arete

Virtue

Timé

Honour

Xenia

Guest Friendship

Geras

Lot, or the Physical Manifestation of Timé

Polis

City

Eudiamonia

Happiness

Aristotles virtue theory

Ekphrasis

A vivid description of a piece of art or architecture as if it is moving.

Sheild of Achilles- Aeneas, Carthaginian temple

Ariesteia

Moment of perfect virtue

Illiad, Bk 5, Diomedes

Até

Blindness or god given madness

Eleos

Compassion or pity

Deus ex machina

Ghost in the machine... Use of gods to resolve a plot, conflict, not logical, a mark of bad writing.

Mos Maiorum

Customs of our ancestors

Pushed by Augustus as a moral reboot

Pater patreia

Father of the Father land

Brutus the Tyranicide, Marius, CUI BONO

In Medes ras

In the middle of things

Where do the Epics begin

Indignata

Anger

Indignation

Pietas

Duty

The gods, father and fatherland

Furor

Anger, opposition to fate

Lite motif

Reoccurring theme

Pietas, prophecy