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62 Cards in this Set
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Eros
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Lust, Libido, Beauty, Fertility, Deity
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Hesiod's Theogony
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First entities in the universe
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Chaos
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Abyss, gap, emptiness, out of Chaos springs Gaia, a primordial god
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Gaia
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Earth
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Uranus
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Sky
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Eros
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Motivated interaction between Uranus and Gaia, leading to titans
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Tartarus
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Underworld/afterlife: there is no good or bad afterlife, everybody goes to the same place, but with different treatings, travel there through river Styx
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Erebus
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Darkness, son of Chaos
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Trojan War
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Waged against the city of Troy by Achaeans. Narrated in the Illiad and Odyssey by Homer
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Helen
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Wife of Menelaus, cause of the Trojan War - important for studying Eros in the ancient world
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Pandora
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First woman, blamed for unleashing all of the world's ills on mankind
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Virgil
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Classical Roman poet, wrote the aenied, followed Homer's Illiad and Odyssey
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Presocratics
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Before Socrates, connected abstract/nature/natural phenomena rather than mythological, explained why things are
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Socrates
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Classical Greek Athenian philosopher who questioned everything
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Plato
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First systematic philosopher, student of Socrates, wrote "the Aplogoy of Socrates"
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Aristotle
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Student of Plato. Taught alexander the great, believed in what the eye could see
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Euripides
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Third tragedian, most tragic, wrote Bacchae
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Julius Caesar
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Crossed rubicon in 49 bc, displayed his ego and was assassinated. Critical role into Roman empire from republic. Blamed for burning library of alexandria
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Bacchae
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Tragedy by Euripides; King pentheus punished by Dionysus for refusing to worship her. Torn to pieces
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Ovid
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wrote metamorphoses, fired by Augustus for writing about love/sex
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Metamorphoses
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by ovid, characters turned into other things as punishment for their hubris
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Daedalus
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Human master craftsman; built wings of feathers with wax for him and his sun to escape the palace of Minos. Created the wooden bull
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Arachne
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from metamorphoses; best weaver on earth, wanted to compete with Minerva; hubris - student beats teacher, but turned to a spider
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Weaving
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what Arachne did best, woman's craft given by Athena/Minerva
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Spider
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What Minerva/athena turned Arachne into after winning a weaving contest
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Niobe
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boasted as best mom on earth, seven daughters and sons. Better than Leo/Latona because they only have 2 children
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Midas
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Helped Dionysus' teacher, the Satyr Silenus, without even knowing him, and is granted a wish. Wishes that everything he touches turns to white gold, can't eat. exiled, apollo gives him donkey ears
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Gold
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Midas' selfish wish
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Dionysus
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God of wine/intoxication. In Bacchae, Pentheus questions him for his rituals, and says king will regret forbidding his people from worshipping him.
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Icarus
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Son of Daedalus, made wax wings to escape Mino's palace - Flew too close to the sun and his wings melted, causing him to drown in Icarian Sea
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Hubris
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Roman Empire. Pride - misplaced honor. Types: Pentheus - refusing to worship gods, Icarus - behaved like gods, Arachne - challenged gods, Niode - compared herself to gods, Midas- failure to consider human limitation
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Maenads
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Female followers of Dionysus, symbolic of genophobia (fear of sex)
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Odysseus
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participated in one of first romances in Ancient World. Penelope waited ten years for him when he was at sea and Trojan war
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Penelope
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Odysseus' wife. Shrewd, promises to marry when she finishes weaving, but cheats. waits for her husband
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King Pentheus
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king of pain; banned the women from worshipping Bacchae, killed by his mother Agave, torn limb by limb
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Eleusinian Mysteries
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Most popular mystery religion, idea of preparing people for death. What women were involved in
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Thebes
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In egypt, women worshiped Dionysus here
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Agave
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Tears her son Pentheus apart in the tragedy Bacchae
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Minos
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King of Crete, fed children to the Minotaur, palace where daedalus and icarus are held
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Dictator
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Julius Caesar called himself this, ruler who assumes sole and absolute power.
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Princeps
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Determined the leader in Ancient Rome at beginning of Roman Empire, created imperial system under augustus
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Athena
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Godess of war/wisdom/strategy/weaving. Transformed arachne into a spider after losing the weaving contest
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Athens
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largest city-state of Greece. Leaked hubris out of every orifice. Moved treasury out of Delos into heart of city for tournaments and games
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Herodotus
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Father of history, work based off of mythic tradition, compared to Homer. upped the wow factor
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Thucydides
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Greek historian, lived through Pelopponesian War. Analytical, crticized herodtus for being too homeric.
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Leto
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Mother of twins apollo and Artemis, in the story Niobe
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Apollo
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Killed Niobe's seven sons. God of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, and medicine
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Artemis
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Killed Niobe's seven daughters. Mistress of the wild, twin of apollo
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Suetonius
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wrote history of the emperors of Rome, more intereseted in the mythical sides of story
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Tacitus
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interested in the now; no more focus on the past or mythical stories. Senator and historian of roman empire
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Caligula
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Julius Caesar - roman emperor from 37 to 41 - most notable for his crude personality. Bipolar, married his sister
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Claudius
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Last heir of Augustus. Beautiful only if mouth shut and stood still. loved to eat
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Nero
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Sexually crudest emperor ever. Burned Rome down, intimate relations with his mother. Became a furry, donned animal skin and and would attack and rape people
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Augustus
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First emperor of Rome, ruled in a time of peace. Could work the people and senate to his favor
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Pygmalion
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Poem by Ovid, sculptor who fell in love with his ivory sculpture of the perfect woman. Aphrodite turned his statue into a real woman.
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Satire
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Literary genre or form, common feature is irony or sarcasm. Lack of structure, revolutionary of the time
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Horace
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Court poet by Augustus, lyric poet who sang the praise of a life of luxury and sets a tone that leads the idea that roman life is the best
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Juvenal
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Roman satirist, author of Satires
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Pericles
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Statesman in Athens, led Athens into Pelopponesian War
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Zeus
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God of lightning thunder, lord of gods on Mt. Olympus
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Aphrodite
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Goddess of lust, married to Hephaestus but affairs with Aries
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Rome
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capital of empire.
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