Ancient Greek Unit
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38 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Illiad | Homer |
| Odyssey | Homer |
| god of war | Ares |
| god of fire, volcano | Hephaestus |
| god of drinking, wine, theater | Dionysus |
| goddess of the hunt, twin sister of apollo | Artemis |
| god of prophecy, archery, usic, healing, twin of artemis | Apollo |
| goddess of love and beauty | Aphrodite |
| goddess of agriculture and fertility | Demeter |
| god of the sea, brother of zeus | Poseidon |
| queen of olympus, sister and wife of zeus | Hera |
| messenger of the gods, thieves, travel | Hermes |
| goddess of crafts, domestic arts, war | Athena |
| Hero's Journey | hero gets a call, may resist call, hero enters a new world, faces danger and temptation, gets help, gains new knowledge or learns lesson or renews commitment or wisdom, returns home to share new knowledge with his people |
| universal; all stories, all time | archetype |
| whos in power | authority |
| who speaks as leader, opinion, through actions | voice |
| morals or themes, cultural ______s, beliefs | value |
| time period Illiad/Odyssey | 900-700BC |
| long poem whos heros are larger than life and reflects the values of the people | epic |
| Homeric conventions | * invocation(plea for aid), in medias res, epic similes, metrical structure, stock epithets(phrase with name) |
| father of greek drama (525-456BC) | Aeschylus |
| greatest greek dramatist (496-406BC) | Sophocles |
| opening scene | prologue |
| first of the chorus's lyric songs or choral odes | parados |
| concluding scene | exodos |
| created the first actor | Thespis |
| mediator, bridge, represent common people, set mood, interpret what is going on, inform audience of things to come | chorus |
| function is to arouse pity and fear | tragedy |
| strangely pleasurable sense of emotion release after watching a tragedy | catharsis |
| *particular type of excellence, excessive pride, blind recklessness, disastrous retribution, accepts responsibility and fate | tragic hero |
| fundamental character weakness that leads to misfortune | tragic flaw |
| excessive pride | hubris |
| main conflict in Antigone | individual conscience vs established authority |
| nonviolent, deliberately break law, adhering to higher law, trying to change law, act is public, willing to accept punishment | civil disobedient |
| Antigone | Sophocles |
| Oedipus | Sophocles |
| values of greeks | *material possessions, gods play important role, respect for the dead |
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