Final Flashcards
(110 cards)
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Oedipus Lineage
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Son of Laius and Jocasta (later husband of Jocasta)
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Oedipus story
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Solved the riddle of the Sphinx and became tyrant of Thebes
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Oedipus Fate
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Arrived at Colonus in Attica and died there
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Jocasta
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Queen of Thebes who married her son Oedipus
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Eteocles
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Brother of Antigone who died in battle and received a hero’s burial
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Polynices Lineage
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Brother of Eteocles and Son of Oedipus
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Polynices fate
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Died during the Argive expedition against Thebes to force his brother out
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Creon lineage
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The brother of Jocasta and Uncle of Antigone
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Creon event
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Became king of Thebes after fall of Oedipus
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Tiresias Trait
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A blind prophet
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Tiresias Blinded By
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Blinded by Athena or Hera
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Tiresias Fate
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At some point was turned into a woman and turned back into a man
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Orestes Lineage
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Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
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Orestes Story
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Avenges his father by killing his mother
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Orestes Fate
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Suffers punishment for killing his mother from the Furies
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Odysseus Lineage
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Son of Laertes, husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus
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Odysseus Role
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King of Itacha
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Odysseus Story
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Greek hero who took ten years to return after the end of the Trojan War
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Aeneas Lineage
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Son of Aphrodite and Anchises, a Trojan prince
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Aeneas Significance
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The mythical ancestor of several Roman noble families (including the Caesars)
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Aeneas Fate
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Fought for Troy but escaped the destruction of the city
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Gilgamesh Role
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King of Uruk
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Gilgamesh Significance
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A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
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Prometheus Lineage
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Son of Iapetos, brother of Epimetheus, and father of Deucalion
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Prometheus Attributes
Attributes: fire, eagle, caring for man
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Prometheus Areas of Concern
Areas of concern: technology and man
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Artemis Goddess of
Goddess of the hunt and moon
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Artemis attributes
Attributes: Bow and arrow, hunting dog, stag, moon
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Artemis areas of concern
Areas of concern: Hunting, childbirth, and virginity
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Persephone Lineage
Daughter of Demeter and Zeus
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Persephone Story
Goddess who is kidnapped by Hades
Wife of Hades
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Persephone Attributes
Attributes: Pomegranate, torch, flowers
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Persephone Areas of concern
Areas of concern: Queen of the underworld, vegetation
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Hades God Of
God of the underworld
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Hades Lineage
Brother of Zeus and Poseidon
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Hades attribute
Attributes: Scepter, Cornucopia, Rooster
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Hades area of concern
Areas of Concern: The regions below the surface of the earth, including the dead
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Aphrodite Atributes
Attributes: Cupids, doves
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Aphrodite Areas of Concern
Areas of concern: Love, desire, fertility
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Aphrodite Associated with
Associated with Roman Venus
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Demeter Area of Concern
Areas of Concern: Agriculture
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Demeter Attributes
Attributes: Grain sheaf, crown of wheat
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Demeter Lineage
Mother of Persephone
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Apollo Attributes
Attributes: Beardless, wreath, kithara
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Apollo areas of concern
Areas of Concern: Music, truth, prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, etc.
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Apollo lineage
Son of Zeus and Leto
Twin brother of Artemis
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Zeus Areas of concern
Areas of Concern: The sky, kingship
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Zeus attributes
Attributes: Beard, Eagle, Thunderbolt
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Zeus name meaning
Based on the same root as Roman Iu- in Jupiter (Jove) and Sanskrit Dyaush pita (both "sky father")
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Zeus associated with
Associated with Egyptian Amun and Persian Ahura-Mazda
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Dionysus Alias
Dionysus (Bacchus, Mr. D)
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Dionysus God Of
God of wine
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Dionysus family of
Son of Zeus and Semele
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Dionysus honored at
Honored at the Great Dionysia festival in Athens where tragedies were performed
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Hestia Roman version
Roman Vesta
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Hestia Goddess Of
Goddess of the hearth
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Hesita significance
Received the first offering at every domestic sacrifice
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Hermes Role
Messenger of the gods
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Hermes attribute
Attributes: Winged hat (Petasos), sandals, Caduceus
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Hermes areas of concern
Areas of concern: transitions and boundaries
Thieves, travelers, and guides the dead into the underworld
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Hephaestus Lineage
Son of Hera
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Hephaestus Attributes
Attributes: hammer, tongs, donkey
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Hephaestus Areas of Concern
Areas of concern: metal, working, fire
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Hephaestus associated with
Associated with Roman Vulcan and perhaps related to the Syrian smith god Kothar
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Martin Bernal
Scholar who used linguistics, ancient manuscripts, and archaeology to challenge Eurocentric perspectives on the relationship between Greece and Pharaonic Egypt
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James George Frazer Born
Born 1854 Glasgow
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James George Frazer Death
Died 1941 Cambridge
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James George Frazer Wrote
Author of the Golden Bough
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James George Frazer View
Argued that myth is designed to explain ritual
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Michele Foucault
1970s historian and theorist, created modern categories of sexual orientation or constructions that originated mostly in the 19th century
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Claude Levi-Strauss Born
Born Brussels, Belgium, 1908
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Claude Levi-Strauss death
Died Paris, France, 2009
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Claude Levi-Strauss Significance
"The father of modern anthropology"
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Claude Levi-Strauss View
Identified universal structures of human society, such as kinship rules
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Plato Born Death
Born Athens 420s BCE Died 340s
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Plato life
Follower of Socrates
Founder of the academy where Aristotle was educated
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Plato view
The inventor of Idealism
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Ovid Born Death
Born March 20, 43 BCE, Sulmo, Italy
He died ca 17 CE, Tomis now in Modern Romania
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Ovid Life
The last poet of the Golden Age of Latin literature
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Euripides born death
Born late 480s BCE Athens and died 406 BCE Macdeon(?)
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Euripides Life
Author of over 90 tragedies including Medea and Orestes but rarely won 1st prize in the dramatic contests
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Euripides rumor
Rumored to have changed the ending of Medea myth because he was bribed
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Sophocles Born death
Born 497/6 BCE
Died 406/405 BCE
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Sophocles Role
Author of Tragedies, including Antigone
One of the treasurers of the Delian League 443/42 BCE
Elected General
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Eleusis
A deme or village of Athens that was formerly independent
Home of the Eleusinian Mysteries, an initiation ceremony of which the details were secret but had something to do with the Eleusinian triad and an afterlife
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Thebes Definition
A polis in Boeotia near Attica (the territory of Athens)
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Thebes enemy
A traditional enemy of Athens who sided with the Persians in the Persian Wars
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Thebes significance
Mythical home of Cadmus, Dionysus, Oedipus, and Antigone
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Delphi definition
Panhellenic Sanctuary and sacred precinct of Apollo located in the region Phocis
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Delphi overseen
Site of the Delphic oracle overseen by the Pythia
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Delphi in plays
Setting of the first half of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
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Uruk definition
One of the first cities in Sumer (modern southern Iraq), perhaps the first city in history
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Uruk Significance
Home of the temples of Innana and Anu
The mythical home of Gilgamesh
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Cyprus definition
Cyprus
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Cyprus significance
The legendary home of Myrrha, Pygmalion and a favorite place of Aphrodite who is often called "the Cypriote" (Cypria)
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Sicily Definition
A large island south of the Italian Peninsula
Heavily colonized by Greeks and Carthaginians from ca 800 BCE
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Sicily significance
Thought to be the location of the Cyclops episode in the Odyssey
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Phoenicia
An ancient seafaring civilization located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea
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Olympus definition
Highest mountain in modern Greece and second highest in the Balkan range
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Olympus significance
Mythical home of some of the twelve Greek gods known as Olympians
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Critical Thinking
Not having the answer before asking the question
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Thesis
Statement based on facts that a reasonable person can disagree with
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Observation
A statement about more than one fact that every reasonable person will agree with
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Humanism
The assertion that human beings are the same now as in the ancient world and therefore understandable
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Historicism
The idea that human beings had fundamentally different ideas of how the world worked in the past
And their motives cannot always be understood
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Idealism
The belief is that categories exist "out there" independent of language and human beings. Sometimes these categories are referred to as "natural"
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Textualism
Because categories and even mythic figures are constructed by language, it is better to try to understand categories and mythic figures as subject to limited change over time rather than the imperfect copies of an ideal hero or category
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The Raw and the Cooked
"Raw" refers to anything a culture defines as outside of human society and therefore natural
"Cooked" refers to products of human culture
Cooking is therefore a mediation between nature and culture
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Tyranny
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
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Orientalism
The acceptance of "the basic distinction between East and West as the starting point for elaborate theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, and political accounts concerning the Orient, its people, customs, 'mind,' destiny and so on."
-Edward Said
