2nd Quarter Flashcards by christy Chen

1 of the 12 Olympians
_______: (Jove) (Jupiter)
- god of the sky
-eagle
- ruler of the 12 Olympians
- most powerful
- weapon: thunderbolt
- husband & brother of Hera (always tension)
- infamous for affairs
- overthrew father (Cronus) : Uranus : ate children as wife Rhea birthed them
- Rhea tricks Cronus into swallowing a rock

Zeus

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________: Juno

queen of Gods
goddess of marriage & childbirth
jealous of Zeus’s affairs they fight a lot

Hera

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_______: Neptune

god of the sea
brother of Zeus
weapon : trident
Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades drew lots for which portion of the world to rule.

Poseidon

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________: (Bacchus)

only god born of a mortal woman
son of Zeus and Semele (not Hera’s son)
god of wine & revelry (youthfulness)

Dionysus

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__________

god of music, arts, healing, light
sometimes called “Phoebus _________”, “radiant”
son of Zeus and Lito
twin brother : Artemis
daily: drives sun across sky
Pictured holding lyre
pray to ___ or muses

Apollo

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_______(Diana)

virgin goddess of hunt
daughter of Zeus and Leto
twin sister to Apollo
seen as in forest with deer, conservative
dying peacefully: shot by Artemis silver arrow
demands purity

Artemis

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__________( Minerva)

goddess of wisdom (virgin)
daughter of Zeus : popped out of his head in full armor
powerful ?…
“Pallas Athena” Pallas white?
olive tree : symbol

Athena

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_______( Mars)

god of war
son of Zeus and Hera
Greeks often pray to him
murderous, bloodthirsty, coward
loses to Diomedes( a mortal)

Ares

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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
-goddess of love 
- 2 accounts of birth 
     1.) daughter of Zeus and Dione 
           Or 
      2.) sprung from sea after Cronus castrated his father Uranus &amp; threw his genitals in the sea.
- fickle , immodest, voluptuous, ? 
- unfaithful wife of Hephaestus

Aphrodite

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_____________ (Vulcan)

God of fire and forge
son of Zeus and Hera
crippled and ugly. Hera threw him from Mount Olympus
sided with Hera over Zeus, Zeus threw him from Olympus
husband of Aphrodite
- she is unfaithful to him

Hephaestus

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_________(Ceres)

goddess of fertility & agricultural (think “cereal)
sister of Zeus
mother Persephone, Queen of underworld
- Hades kidnaps her. She ate food of underworld so she must stay, when she walks flowers grow
  - winter: when she’s in underworld plants die

Demeter

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________(Pluto)

god of underworld (rarely leaves it)
- Cerberus: 3 headed dog. Guards underworld
greedy and concerned with increasing his subjects
husband to Persephone

Hades

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Plot (_______)
A. The “action” or the “structure of incidents.”
B. Actions should be logical, naturally following the actions that precede the.

Mythos

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Character (_____)
A. Main characters should be
I. Good (audiences don’t like it when villains win)
II. Appropriate (a wise character probably won’t be young)
III. consistent
1.) plays should be driven not by who the characters are, but what they do.
2.) “consistently inconsistent”

Ethos

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Theme (_______)

Dianoia

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Diction (_______)

-the quality of speech. We might call this the “dialogue.”

Lexis

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_____ always came back to “I know I know nothing” . This made him wise because he knew he wasn’t wise
- philosophy : love of WISDOM

Socrates

__________ by SHAKESPHERE

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Hades (Pluto)

god of underworld
greedy & concerned with increasing his subjects
husband to Persephone
rarely leaves underworld
3 headed dog ________ , guards underworld

Cerberus

_____ made in image of man not God.

NAGATIVES

fallible
moral
fight amongst ???

POSITIVES

glorified humans
powerful, wise, strong, craft, beautiful

Greek pantheon

What are the 3 different types of irony?

Irony: the effect created by the contradiction between what is said to be known to be true.

VERBAL irony: when what is said is different from what is known to be true. * words ex : sarcasm
SITUATIONAL irony: when what happens is different from what was intended
DRAMATIC irony: when the audience knows something a character doesn’t

_________
-“I know I know nothing” (made him wise because he knew he wasn’t wise, others thought they were wise they weren’t) “know thyself”
“ my unexamined life is not worth living”
.???believed in humility and asking questions. Pagan but believed in finding truth ??

Socrates

_______

condemned to death at ???
for CORRUPTING ATHENIAN YOUTH
- because of questions
- he wanted them to DISCOVER NOT ASSUME
- “to have ones ignorance expose…”
- many infuriated by not knowing wanted him gone.

Trial of Socrates

TRIAL OF SOCRATES

condemned to death at ???
For ________
- because of questions
- he wanted them to ______ NOT ________
- “to have ones ignorance expose…”
- many infuriated by not knowing wanted him gone.

Corrupting Athenian youth

Discover not assume

___________ - a defense speech at trial - punishment options: drink hemlock or leave - why he must die and his death was injustice: wanted to silence him without death p. He said: kill me or leave me be *he would not leave because that would go against what he lived/worked for - to leave would be "to let his enemies harm him" "to leave to undo all he had done"*important -like Christian martyr dying for what you believe

Apology of Socrates

APOLOGY OF SOCRATES - a ________ at trial - punishment options: ______ or ____ -why he must die and his death was injustice: wanted to silence him without death p. He said: kill me or leave me be *he would not leave because that would go against what he lived/worked for - to leave would be "to let his enemies harm him" "to leave to undo all he had done"*important -like Christian martyr dying for what you believe

Defense speech | Drink hemlock or leave

APOLOGY OF SOCRATES - a defense speech at trial - punishment options: drink hemlock or leave - why he must die and his death was injustice: wanted to SILENCE HIM WITHOUT DEATH p. He said: ______ or _______ *he would not leave because that would go against what he lived/worked for - to leave would be "to let his enemies harm him" "to leave to undo all he had done"*important -like Christian martyr dying for what you believe

Kill me or leave me be

_______ - student of Socrates (429-347) -beginning of GOLDEN AGE OF ATHENS (5th unt) - sees Socrates executed - THE ACADEMY (385 BC) -teaches there - follows Socrates : believed in truth and PURSUING IT Works: THE ALLEGORY OF MY CAVE Alegory: story with things symbolizing other things ex:pilgrims progress *we are all in a cave, shadows on walls living in darkness, we don't know truth if someone escapes sees where shadows come from, tell others cave dwellers - people don't like hearing it - cave dwellers kill the person saying they live in darkness ex: Christ

Plato

Platon - student of Socrates (429-347) -beginning of _____- (5th unt) - sees Socrates executed - THE ACADEMY (385 BC) -teaches there - follows Socrates : believed in truth and PURSUING IT Works: THE ALLEGORY OF MY CAVE Alegory: story with things symbolizing other things ex:pilgrims progress *we are all in a cave, shadows on walls living in darkness, we don't know truth if someone escapes sees where shadows come from, tell others cave dwellers - people don't like hearing it - cave dwellers kill the person saying they live in darkness ex: Christ

Golden Age of Athens

``` _________ -ideal society? -conversation -Socratic dialogue *what is a just many BY PLATO ```

The Republic

______: talks about poetry | BY PLATO

Book X (10)

_____ - ideal forms exist in ideal world - ??? Have particulars of those ideals - ex: pic of German shelpherd-kid says puppy dog - Great Dane, puppy dog * calls them all puppy dogs - 2 year old knows difference of cats and chihuahuas. How does he know? - Plato: in ideal world there is an ideal dog a child knows instinctively.

Platonic Idealism

PLATONIC IDEALISM - ideal forms exist in ideal world - ??? Have particulars of those ideals - ex: Pic of German Shepherd, ________ - Great Dane, puppy dog * calls them all puppy dogs - 2 year old knows difference of cats and chihuahuas. How does he know? - Plato: in ideal world there is an ideal dog a child knows instinctively.

Puppy dog

Melody (______) | - relating to the Chorus in Greek drama. A contemporary parallel might be soundtrack.

Melos

Spectacle (_______) -the visuals of a play. Aristotle saw this as the least important:a movie might have beautiful costumes but bad acting and a bad storyline.

Opsis

_________ - 384-322BC Particulars -focus on the skillfulness of poetry telling lies Poetics

Aristotle

What was Plato concerned about?

Ideals & universals

Byron Magee talks to Mylos Burnyeat about Plato - _______________. (Dialogue) - Republic :reads like a play, conversations

Socratic method

Byron Magee talks to Mylos Burnyeat about Plato - SOCRATIC METHOD (______) - Republic :reads like a play, conversations

Dialog

Aristotle : P.......

Particulars

ARISTOTLES POETICS | 6 elements of tragedy

PLOT(mythos) important,should be logical, action CHARACTER (ethos), should be good, appropriate, consistent THEME (dianoia) DICTION (lexis) quality of speech MELODY (Melos) relation to the chorus SPECTACLE (opsis) visuals of the play *PC THE DICky MEan Snake

What were Aristotle's Unities

Unity of TIME: a short period of time 3 hours --> 3 hours Unity of PLACE: 1 setting Unity of ACTION: 1 central plot beginning middle and end. Most important