Honors Midterm

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Stichomythia

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Speak dialogue in alternate lines during a dispute

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Ekphrasis

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Shield of Achilles; literary description of a visual work of art

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chorus

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Company of actors who comment on the action in classical greek plays

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yey

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Lyric Poem

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A poem that is meant to be sung, has a rhythm, emotion

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Calydonian Boar

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Sent by Artemis, Atalanta had 1st blood

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Kenning

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Circumlocution, compund, figurative expression that replaces a noun

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Epic Simile

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Homer, simile devleoped over several lines of verse, Epic poem

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Intertextuality

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Influence of writers on another; homer to Virgil

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Sappho

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Woman Greek Poet, Sapphic meter, Eros, Lyric poems that were meant to be sung

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Carthage

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Dido was founder, Northern coast of Africa, Deafeated by the Romans

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Augustus

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Founder of the roman empire, caesar was uncle, replaced the roman republic

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dramatic irony

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when the audience knows something that the characters do not

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theomachy

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a war or struggle against God or among or against the Gods

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anxiety of influence

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the way poets feel about those who have written before in their culture or tradition

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Anacreon

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Lyric poet, drinking songs and hymns.

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four ages of mankind

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Meta. Stages of human existence before the great flood. Golden age, silver age, bronze age, iron age

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theodicy

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attempt to answer the question of why a good god permits the manifestation of evil

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internal audience

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imaginary listeners or audience to whom a character speaks in a poem

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xenophanes

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Greek philosopher, poet, religious critic.

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catullus

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Explicit poet writing, latin poet at the end of the roman empire

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epic conventions

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Heroic quest, stories told by speakers, The Iliad

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Kleos

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Glory, what others hear about you

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furor

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Passion, outburst, of enthusiasm

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Achilles

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Greek hero, greatest warrior of the iliad, mother was thetis

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Priam

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King of Troy during Trojan war, last king

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Hera

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wife and one of the three sisters of Zeus, queen of gods

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Athena

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goddess of wisdom, war, reason, domestic arts

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Lavinia

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last wife of Aeneas, fights to claim kings daughter and settle an empire

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Agamemnon

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King of argos, in the iliad and the oresteia. leading king of the Greek forces in Trojan war

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Briseus

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briseus was his daughter who agamemnon and achilles fought over in the beginning of the iliad. agamemnon took briseus from achilles

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zeus

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father of gods and men, supreme god of the olympians

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furies

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goddesses of vengeance, in the oresteia, justice

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turnus

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chief antagonist of the aeneid, warrior and leader

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paris

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son of priam, brother of Hector, stole Helen

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patroclus

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achilles best friend, sexual relationship, why achilles decides to fight again

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clytemnestra

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wife of agamemnon, in the oresteia and a little in the iliad

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aeneas

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Trojan hero, protagonist of the aeneid, companion of dido

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hector

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greatest fighter on the Trojan side, eldest son of Priam, killed by achilles

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glaukos

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sea god who loved scylla, sea monster

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orestes

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son of clytemnestra and agamemnon. kills clytemnestra in the oresteia

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dido

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Queen of Carthage, falls in love with aeneas in the oresteia

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andromache

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wife of Hector, loyal wife in the iliad

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diomedes

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Greek hero in Trojan war, god-like

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electra

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daughter of clytemnestra and agamemnon, argive princess