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22 Cards in this Set
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What was the "bible" of the ancient non Jewish world?
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Homer
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What epitaph found in greek and latin tombstones was so common it was often reduced to its first letters?
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I wasn't, I was, I am not, I don't care
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In Greek thought, what was the only real immortality?
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Fame
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Who taught that the dead are basically non existent?
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The epicureans
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Why was a coin placed in the mouth of a dead greek?
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to pay Charon, the ferryman in charge of the passage of the underworld river styx
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Who was Achilles bosom friend who died?
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Patroclus
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How does Patroclus appear to Achilles after he is dead?
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A witless phantom that is forever destined for hades.
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Why does Odysseus go to Hades?
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Inorder to escape from Circe's Island first he must go to Hades and summon a certain ghost
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The blind ghost that Odysseus meets in Hades has this to say about Hades?
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That it is a place where there is no joy
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What does Achilles say to Odysseus about his status in Hades?
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He would rather be a landless hireling on earth than to be lord over all the dead that have perished
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According to Homer, were there people tortured in Hades?
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There were three who were tortured in hades, one was pecked by Vultures, another was forever pushing a stone up a hill and the third was unable to reach the water below him and the fruit above him.
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Where is Hercules located when it comes to Hades?
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The real hercules is feasting with the immortal gods, while his shade is living in the house of hades.
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Was the Egyptian mummification a form of early resurrection?
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Not really, because they didn't see a great break between this life and the next, rather a continuity. Thus there was no eschatology, apocalypse or crisis. Death was life. And thus the mummified body was a continued existence and not a re creation of the body like resurrection.
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If Homer was the Old Testament for the Hellenistic world, what was the New Testament?
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Plato
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Why is it appropriate to call Plato a pro-Marcion of sorts?
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He proposed that we cut out those bits in Homer that made death and hades look like a fearful place, as it was not healthy for young children and men to be fearful of death.
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Who proposed that the scenes in Homer which deal with death and hades be cut out?
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Plato
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Why did plato think that death was something to be welcomed and not something to be feared?
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Because it was the moment when the immortal soul is set free from the prison-house of the body
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What is the difference in conception of the soul between Homer and Plato?
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Homer thought that the 'self' was the physical body, lying dead on the ground, while the 'soul' flies away to what is at best a half-life in hades, whereas Plato thought that the 'self' is precisely the soul, while the corpse is the 'ghost' or the secondary part of a person
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What three concepts did Plato modify when it comes to death and the afterlife?
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the soul, hades itself, and the fate of the dead
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What is Plato's conception of the soul?
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It is immortal and the part of a human that really matters. It existed before the body and will exist afterwards as well. Thus there is some implication of divinity connected with the human soul since it is immortal
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What does Plato think of Hades?
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It is not a place of doom and gloom, but a place of pleasing activities in which philosophy is one of the chiefest. Judgement is passed when souls get to hades and the good go to the isle of the blessed and the bad go to Tartarus
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Why does Plato's theory of Hades feature an apparent contradiction?
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Because on the one hand he wants to eliminate the fear and the idea of doom and gloom in hades but also he wants to propose a judgement there which will require good behaviour in the present. However Plato makes it clear that judgement, even on the wicked, is good as it brings truth and justice to bear at last on the world of humans
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