Key Terms: Flashcards
(36 cards)
What is Aidos?
Shame
What is Kleios?
Fame and a key characteristic of a hero
What is Metis?
Ancient Greek skill, intelligence and resourcefulness
What is polis?
Political state
What is prosody?
Rhythm of poetry
What is catabasis?
A journe to the underworld
What does anthropomorphic mean?
Characteristic of the gods that make them look human with human emotions and behavioural characteristics
What is thumos?
Ancient Greek concept of spiritedness
What is hubris?
Excessive pride and self confidence
What is Agagnorisis?
The moment in tragedy when a character realises the problem. Literally means moving away from ignorance and was made by Aristotle.
What is Nostos?
Homecoming
What is pathos?
Pity and sympathy
Wha is diagesis?
Detailed description by narrator
What is mimesis?
Speech and dialogue within poem
What is Oikos?
Your home, family and household including slaves
What is a paradigm?
Someone or something you should copy
What is menis?
Heroic rage/ frenzy often depicted in war
What is analepsis?
Flashback
What is prolepsis?
Flash forward
What is time?
Wealth riches and gifts that heroes acquire on their journey
What is a phyle?
Tribe in Athens
What is numinous?
Something beyond the ordinary
What is an Eidolon?
Technical term for what you become after death (shade/ soul)
What is geras?
Loot from war and battle spoils
