Final Flashcards

(57 cards)

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Bacchants

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Priest of Bacchus

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Maenads

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Mad women

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Thyrsus

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Wand of giant fennel covered with ivy topped with a pinecone

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Satyrs

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Drunken woodland gods
Greek: man with horse ears and tail
Roman: man with goat ears, tail, legs and horns

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Orchestra

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Circular space in front of the stage allotted to the chorus

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Genos gynaikon

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Race of women

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Elpis

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Hope

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8
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Pithos

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Large storage container

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9
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Kalon kakon

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Beautiful evil

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Symposion

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Philosophical text by Plato

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Iambic poetry

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Short syllable followed by long syllable

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Numen, numina

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Spirit or divine power over a thing or place

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Lares and Penates

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Groups of deities who protected the family and roman states

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Pater familias

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Head of the roman families

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Patria potestas

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Roman family law, power that male head of the family exercised over his children

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Psychopompous

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Guide of the souls to the place of the dead

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Apotheosis

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Making divine

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Euhemerism

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Approach to interpreting mythology in which it is presumed to have originated from real historic events

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19
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Tragedy authors

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

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20
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Pathei mathein

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Wisdom arises from suffering

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21
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Catharsis

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Purification/cleansing

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Enthousiasmos

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The god in us

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Ekstasis

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To stand outside oneself

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Omophagia

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Eating raw flesh

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Katabasis
Descent to the underworld
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Oidos
Song
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Iole
Daughter of Eurytus who had archery contest for marriage and Heracles won
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Omphale
Queen of Lydia inAsia Minor
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Deianira
Man destroyer, heracles second wife
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Achelous
River god
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Nessus
Centaur killed by Heracles
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Megara
First wife of Heracles
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Dionysus
God of wine, fertility, grapes and holds the thyrsus staff
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Lenaea
Annual Athenian festival
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Anagnorisis
Moment in a play where a character makes a critical discovery
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Peripeteia
Sudden reversal of fortune
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Lysios
Dionysus, the one who unites
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Sparagmos
To tear apart
39
Elusinian mysteries
Initiations for the cult of Demeter and Persephone
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Ananke
Compulsion
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Lachesis
One of the three fates
42
Pluto
Hades
43
Nekyia
Ghosts called up and questioned about the future
44
Princeps
The first
45
Jove/Jupiter
Zeus
46
Juno
Hera
47
Ceres
Demeter
48
Diana
Artemis
49
Mercury
Hermes
50
Vulcan
Hephaestus
51
Neptune
Poseidon
52
Mars
Ares
53
Minerva
Athena
54
Cupid
Eros
55
Venus
Aphrodite
56
Pietas
Loyalty
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Gens
Family from a common ancestor