beliefs and ideas Flashcards
(37 cards)
1
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Time
A
Honour
2
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Kleos
A
Reputation/Glory
3
Q
Menis
A
Wrath/Anger
4
Q
Xenia
A
Guest Friendship, Rule of Greek Life
5
Q
Aoidoi
A
Singer-poets, Bards
6
Q
Rhapsode
A
Reciter of epic poetry
7
Q
Calliope
A
Muse of Epic
8
Q
Nostos
A
Heroic Homecoming
9
Q
Hubris
A
Excessive Pride
10
Q
Arete
A
Excellence of Any Kind
11
Q
Aristos
A
Excellence
12
Q
Aristea
A
Moment of Glory on the Battlefield
13
Q
Aidos
A
Shame
14
Q
Epithet
A
Non-name Descriptive Phrase
15
Q
Patronymic
A
Father-based Epithet
16
Q
Homeric Simile
A
Simile, Description & Reinstatement of the Simile
17
Q
Supplication
A
Begging
18
Q
Vaunting
A
Boasting Over a Dying Enemy
19
Q
Lamentation
A
Mourning
20
Q
Soliloquy
A
Speaking one’s thoughts aloud
21
Q
Ring Composition
A
Cyclical Structure
22
Q
Oikos
A
Family Structure
23
Q
Moirae
A
The Fates
24
Q
General Mass Engagement
A
Large Scale Conflict
25
Kleos Aphthiton
Glory Unfading
26
In Medias Res
In the middle of things, literary technique
27
Teichoskopia
Viewing from the walls, in Book 3
28
Epipolesis
Marshalling of the troops
29
Anax
Tribal leader/king
30
Duel
2nd form of Homeric warfare, follows one hero of either side as they clash
31
Xenoi
The term for people bound by Xenia
32
Pathos
Appeal to audience emotions
33
Doloneia
Book 10 Alternate name
34
Peripeteia
Reversal of Fortune
35
Dusaristotokeia
Unhappy in the best of childbearing
36
Ekphrasis
Use of detailed description of a work of visual art
37
Ate
Delusion/folly
