Humanities: Hellenic & Hellenistic

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Hellenic

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Classical Age

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Classical Hellenic Civilization

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Defined the balanced life and sought for moderation in achieving it.

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Riches & Status

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Bred pride and led to envy by other citizens or, worse, envy by the gods.

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Apollo

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God of moderation

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Dionysus

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god of excess

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Classic or Classical

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"best" or "preeminent".

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The Classics

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The works that have survived from Greece & Rome.

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simplicity balance restraint

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simplicity balance restraint

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3 Great Athenian Tragedians

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

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Pericles

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Launched a building program.
The popular leader and general.

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Thespis

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Name comes from the word thespian or "actor".

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Essence of Greek Tragedy

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Deeply felt belief that mortals cannot escape pain and sorrow.

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Violence

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Never depicted on stage

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Purpose of tragedy

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Work a catharic or purging effect on the audience to arouse pity and terror do that these negative emotions could be drained from the soul.

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Pleasure of Tragedy

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an intellectual

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Hamartia

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Tragic Flaw- can mean many things. 1. Human Condition
2. Ironic
T flaw
sin
instellectual error

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Tragedy

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the evoking of pity and fear

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laughter

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distancing agent

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Aristophenes

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the primary source for what is known as Old Comedy-comic Greek plays with a strong element of political criticism

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Lysistrata

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a sexually explicit & hilarious comedy. points out the absurdity of the prolonged Peloponnesian War and by implication all war

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2 historians

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Herodotus- father of history
Thucydide

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herodotus

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father of history

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Oedipus The King Story

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known as Sophoclean tragedy in that it has 2 themes:
1. the relation between humans & gods
2. the hero's moral dilemmas
the most famous tragedy of antiquity

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Oedipus the King

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married his mother. king of thebes

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I didnt know it

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Tragic Downfall

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Herodotus

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approached history as a distinct subject and to practuce historical writing in anything like the modern since.

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Thucydidian Concept of Tragedy

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Hubris
Ate
Nemesis

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H
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N

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H-pride/arrogance
A-Mad Folly
N-Restribution/Payback

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3 philosophers

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Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

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Atomists

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believed that everythring is composed of atoms-eternal, invisible

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Socrates

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an enduring moral & intellectual order existed in the universe. (everything)
rejection of philosophizing about naturr, focus on human problems & desire to empower individuals to make their own moral choices

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Virtue is Knowledge (Socrates)

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if you have the knowlege you are going to do the right thing.

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Drunk Hemlock

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condemned to death for corrupting the youth of Athens

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Plato

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a student of Socrates Western idealism (a thought system that emphasizes spiritual values and makes ideas, rather than matter, the basis of everything that exists.

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Aristotle

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Student of Plato. Teacher of Alexander the Great. Argued that knowledge is derived from the gods. His thought rested on thr concept of God.

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Hippocrates

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Father of medicine.
Rejected supernatural explanations as causes of illness.
Said that the brain is the most powerful organ in the human body.

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Architecture

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Doric and Ionic

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Severe Style

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expresses dignified nobility

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Jocasta

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wife of Oedipus

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Teiresias

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prophet and servant to Apollo

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Kreon

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Oedipus' s brother in law

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Hellenistic Culture

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cosmopolitan

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Hellenistic Literature

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became more theatrical and playful, sculpture more emotional and even sensual.

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Hellenistic Philosophers

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concentrated on revising feelings of anxiety and alienation.

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women

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able to conduct their own legal and economic affairs.

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Alexander's Legacy

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his new image of the city

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Alexandria

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the largest city of this time

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Battle of Actium in 31 BC

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the Romans defeated the forces of Cleopatra, the last of the Ptolemies, and secured their dominion in the Hellenistic world.

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Two forms of government

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Divinized Kingship
Republicanism

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Art

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must serve moral purposes

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New Comedy

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presented gently satirical series from middle class life.

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Latin

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the Roman language

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Diogenes

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asserted that humans should live simply--like dogs

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Autarky

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self sufficiency

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Ataraxia

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the desireless state that the Hellenistic Age deemed so precious

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The Supreme Being

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another word for logos

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Logos

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word-reason, rational

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Stoics

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dont express their emotions

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Syncretism

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the blending of religions

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Mithra

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the mortal soon of the sun god

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Euclid

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the father of geometry

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Corinthian Columns (The Olympiem)

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