MUSC 201 Midterm
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Art, literature, music history
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Homer | first literary figure |
| Iliad | Epic poem--somber, aggressive, direct |
| Odyssey | Epic poem--more digressive, lighthearted, more difficult to understand |
| The Homeric Question | problems and theories related to the Homeric epics and their creator |
| Polis | city-state |
| Greek Gods | mythological traditions, no supreme being, acted as umpires |
| Greek religion | used to illuminate lives rather than give divine guidance |
| Dactylic hexameter | epic meter |
| epithet | descriptive phrase for a main character |
| Message of the Iliad | we must be prepared to answer for the results of our own actions |
| Sappho | First recorded woman writer, born on Lesbos in Archaic period, wrote in 1st person about feelings |
| lyric poetry | poetry set to music |
| Presocratics | Philosophers before Socrates |
| Philosophy | love of wisdom |
| Materialists | explained everything in terms of one or more of the elements |
| Thales of Miletus | believed everything is made from water |
| Empedocles | believed in four elements |
| Anaxagoras | believed that matter is made up of small particles (Ajax comes in powder) |
| Pythagoras | believed in reincarnation, interested in mathematics |
| Four elements | fire, earth, air and water |
| Dualists | believed in two universes, the changeable world around us and a perfect world, perfect world can only be realized through intellect |
| Heraclitus | conflict and strife "Can't step into the same river twice" (Hairy Raccoon, Pocahontas), process by which matter changed |
| Parmenides | believed that true reality is apprehended by reason and is all-perfect and unchanging, senses are flawed and subject to error (Parmesan is all-perfect according to Traci) |
| Atomists | believed that reality is made up of atoms or "Indivisible particles and the void", Leucippus and Democritus |
| Herodotus | first Western Historian, wrote history of the persian wars |
| Strengths of Herodotus | no bias, tells a good story, acute powers of observation |
| Weaknesses of Herodotus | didn't understand military strategy, wrote from personal perspective, interpreted events in terms of personalities, believed that persians lost because of excessive ambition (hubris) |
| Aeschylus | Greek playwright--optimistic, bloody, violent, right eventually wins |
| Euripides | Greek playwright--pessimistic, cynical, women pushed to the limit (You ripped!) |
| Sophocles | Greek playwright--less optimistic, tragic consequences of individual mistake |
| Festival of Dionysus | Source of greek drama |
| Purpose of chorus | narration, divide the scenes, public reaction, point of view of the spectator |
| Oedipus the King | written by Sophocles, symbol of Greek tragic drama, tragic flaw (hamartia) = pride and stubbornness |
| Socrates | philosopher--very moral/ethic, know his teachings through his student Plato |
| Plato | philosopher--political theory and the construction of an ideal society, founded the "Academy", allegory of the Cave, dualist, abstract, art/literature/things beyond this world |
| Aristotle | philosopher--Plato's pupil, the great systemizer, politics/science/ethics |
| The City of God | By St. Augustine, history had a direction willed by God, written in prose |
| St. Augustine | Great influence on Christianity, invented the genre of self-reflective writing |
| Confessions | St. Augustine's autobiography (confession of sin, act of faith in God, confession of praise) |
| Hildegard of Bingen | wrote treatises on prayer, philosophy, medicine, devotion; was an artist, musician, preacher |
| Schivas | "The way to knowledge," Hildegard of Bingen |
| Causae et Curae | causes and cures by Hildegard of Bingen, account of her visions and the explanations of what they mean |
| Song of Roland | Epic poem about Charlemagne, chivalry, good vs evil |
| chansons de geste | songs of deeds, usually sung by travelling jongleurs |
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