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A Literary device in which objects, persons, or actions are equated with secondary, figurative manings that underlie their literal meaning
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Allegory
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A two handled vessel used for oil or wine
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amphora
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the character that directly opposes the protagonist in drama or fiction
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antagonist
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a list of people, things or attributes, characteristic of biblical and homeric literature
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catalog
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a government in which supreme power is vested in the people
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Democracy
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a quesition and answer style of inquiry made famous by Socrates
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dialectical method
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a method of inquiry dependent on direct experience or observation
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empirical method
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a characterizing word or phrase; in Homeric verse, a compound adjuective used to identify a person or a thing
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epithet
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That branch of philosophy that sets forth the principles of human conduct.
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ethics
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excessive pride
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hubris
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the theory that holds that things in the material world are manifestations of an independent realm of unchanging, immaterial ideas of forms
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Idealism (platonic)
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a government in which power lies in the hands of an elite minority
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oligarchy
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the leading character in a play or a story
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Protagonist
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a deductive scheme of formal argument, consisting of two premises from which a conclusion may be drawn
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syllogism
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Goddess of love, beauty procreation
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Aphrodite
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God of solar light, medicine music
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Apollo
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God of wine vegetation
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Dionysus
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God of underworld
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Hades
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God of Strength courage
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Heracles
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Male messenger of the gods
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Hermes
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Goddess of underworld
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Persephone
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God of the Sea
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Poseidon
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King of the gods, sky
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Zeus
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Leading proponent of Athenian democracy
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Pericles
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Father of History
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Herodotus
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Character "Flaw" that would cause the tragic end of an older wise moble hero
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hamartia
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the technical term used by Aristotle to describe the emothinal effect of a tragic drama on the spectator
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catharsis
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Pillars of the Heroic code
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Beauty, strength and intelligence
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