THINGS I AM ABSOLUTELY GOING TO FORGET Flashcards
(97 cards)
1
Q
Peripeteia
A
Reversal, overturning, experience of downfall (OEDIPUS and BACCHAE)
2
Q
Anagnorisis
A
Recognition of truth (OEDIPUS and BACCHAE)
3
Q
Oracle of Themis
A
Visited by Deucalion and Pyrrha
4
Q
Hera’s persecution of Dionysus
A
o Athamas, delusional, hunted his elder son Learchus who he thought was a deer and killed him
o Ino cast herself into the sea, together with her son Melicertes
Ino is Dionysus’ blood relative Aunt, Athamus is his uncle
5
Q
Tantalus
A
SON OF ZEUS
6
Q
Festival Consualia
A
Rape of the Sabine women
7
Q
Cadmus and Europa
A
siblings (Europa has Cretan kings, Cadmus makes Thebes)
8
Q
Janus
A
The numen of bridges, gates, entrances
9
Q
Penates
A
Numen of the items in the household
10
Q
Lares
A
Numen of the people in the household
11
Q
Erichthoneous
A
Son of Hephaestus - rape attempt on Athena
12
Q
Echion
A
father of Pentheus (Agave is mother)
13
Q
Bacchants
A
Female followers of Dionysus
14
Q
Maenads
A
Female followers of Dionysus
15
Q
Satyrs
A
Male followers of Dionysus
16
Q
Thiasos
A
Collective name for Dionysus’ followers
17
Q
Alcibiades
A
violates Eleusinian mysteries in 415
18
Q
Socrates, Pentheus, Alcibiades
A
All question the gods and are punished for it.
Socrates: gods
Pentheus: Dionysus
Alcibiades: Eleusinian mysteries
19
Q
Bacchus
A
Another name for Dionysus
20
Q
Does Dionysus appeal to democratic or aristocratic people?
A
Democratic
21
Q
Lycaon
A
Wolfy guy
22
Q
Oedipus
A
Swollen foot
23
Q
Ilias/Ilia/Ilium
A
Iulus: Ascanias
Ilia: Rhea silvia
Ilium: Troy
24
Q
In the Oresteia, who commands Aeolus to prevent the ships from sailing from Aulis? In Aeneid, who commands Aelous to shipwreck them?
A
Oresteia: Artemis
Aelous: Juno (doesn’t want them to make it to Carthage)
25
Infeliz
Used to describe Dido, unlucky
26
What does Dios mean?
Sky father
27
What is Zeus the divine champion of?
1. Xenia
2. Suppliants
3. Justice
28
Who is Poseidon married to?
Amphitrite
29
Who is Hera the mother of?
Ares (+Zeus), and Hephaestus (asexually)
30
Where was Ganymedes from?
Troy
31
Marriages are ____ and ____
Exogamous: female leaves her father's house
Virilocal: female enters the house of her husband
32
What lie does Aphrodite tell Anchises?
That her family is from a nearby town, and that she has already heard all about him. She says that Hermes abducted her from her family.
33
Keleos
King of Eleusis
34
Metaneira
Queen of Eleusis
35
Dione
A Titan—the mother of Aphrodite in Homer
36
A flower, wondrous and bright
Persephone picks it from a field (it is Hades) in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
37
In what 2 stories was Hephaestus born disabled? In what story was he injured by Hera/Zeus?
Born disabled in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo and in Theogony.
Became disabled in the Iliad, explains the story when he was acting as a peacemaker
38
Bribed by a necklace
Eleithyia - goddess of childbirth who Hera tried to ban
39
Parents of typhoios?
Theogony: Gaia and Tartaros
| Homeric Hymn to Apollo: Hera asexually
40
Who has to serve the mortal Admetus?
Apollo, for killing some of the cyclopes that produce Zeus' lightning bolts. Admetus is married to ALCESTIS
41
Arcas
Son of Callisto and Zeus, Zeus raped Callisto when she was a Vestal virgin, Artemis turned them into bears and they were hunted. Catasterization.
42
In which stories are Hephaestus born lame?
Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Theogony
43
Who is Maia the daughter of?
Atlas, who is the son of Iaepetos and Clymene (Titans)
44
Where does Hermes get the golden whip?
From Apollo to herd his cattle
45
Who in Dionysus' family raised him and was persecuted by Hera?
Ino and Athamus (raised him as a girl)
Athamus was driven mad to hunt his soon Learchus as a deer.
Ino was driven mad to cast her and her other son Melicertes into the sea
46
Mt. Nysa
Where Dionysus was raised by nymphs, who turned him into a goat
47
According to Orphic tradition, how was Dionysus born?
Born to Zeus and Persephone. Titans eat him (omphagia)
48
Rights of Cybele
Dionysus
49
Biggest opposing force of Dionysus
Apollo - they share Delphi
50
Out of Tantalus, Sisyphus, Ixion, and Tityus, which was a son of Zeus?
Tantalus
51
According to Orphic tradition, where did humans come from?
From the ashes of the Titans
52
Lycurgus
Took satyrs and maenads hostage and attacked Dionysus. Dionysus sought refuge in the sea with Thetis. Dionysus drove Lycurgus mad. He thought he was cutting a branch of ivy with an axe, but he was really killing his own son and cutting off his extremities.
53
Athenaeus
Wrote the song of the Phallace bearers
54
3 cults offer hope of an afterlife
1. Orphic cult
2. Eleusinian mysteries
3. Rites of Cybele
55
Out of Tantalus, Sisyphus, Ixion, and Tityus, which was a son of Aoleus?
Sisyphus
56
Linus
Teaches Herakles the lyre
57
Tiryns and Mycenae
Perseus becomes the king
58
Who becomes king: Aeson or Pelias? Atreus or Thyestes?
Pelias and Atreus
59
Polyxena
Bride of death. Daughter of Hecuba and Priam. She was sacrificed to the ghost of Achilles after the fall of Troy.
60
Aidos
Modesty and shame
61
Oikos
Greater commitment to the family/household than the community
62
______ for an early death in war, ______ in the form of war spoils.
Kleos (glory), timé (honour)
63
Aristeia
Diomedes and Patroklus' excellence
64
Glaucus
Meets Diomedes on the battlefield - they realize their grandfather's knew each other and stop fighting
65
Memnon
Of Ethiopia, a Trojan ally killed by Achilles, son of the Dawn Goddess
66
Who drives Ajax crazy?
Athena - he is planning on killing Agamemnon and Odysseus, but Athena makes him kill their cattle instead. He is so embarrassed he commits suicide.
Athena favours Odysseus.
67
Atimos
Shame–Ajax experiences it after losing Thetis' contest for Achilles' armour and Athena driving him to kill the sheep
68
Palladium
statue of Athena, must be captured before Troy's fall, located in Troy. Diomedes and Odysseus obtain it from Troy.
69
Penthesilea
Amazon queen killed by Achilles - trojan ally
70
Who does Helen expose her breast to?
Menelaus
71
What takes Hecuba as captive? (time)
Odysseus
72
3 conditions for Troy to fall?
1. Neoptelemus must fight for the Greeks
2. Bow of Herakles must be retrieved from Philoktetes on Lemnos
3. Palladium (statue of Pallas Athena) must be retrieved from Troy
73
Who tries to rape Cassandra?
Lesser Ajax - she is Agamemnon's timé
74
Who took Andromache as time?
Neoptelemus
75
Who kills Achilles? Who is present?
Paris - Apollo is present
76
Polyphemus' parent
Poseidon
77
Who came to Nausicaa in a dream?
Athena
78
Ciconian women
Attack and kill Orpheus with stones
79
A crime against time
Incest with mother
80
Obliteration of origin
Parricide
81
How did Aeneas get access to the underworld?
He uses the golden bough to convince Chiron to ferry him across the River Styx
82
Deiphobus
Helen tore his household apart‚ he was a son of Priam (brother of Hector)
83
Who guided Aeneas in the underworld?
Sybil
84
Elysium
The opposite of Tartarus: where Anchises was, where the Age of Heroes went.
85
Amata name meaning?
Beloved
86
Who is Hector in the Aeneid?
Turnus
87
Who is Patroklus in the Aeneid?
Pallas, son of Evander of Arcadia
88
Who is Penthisilea in the Aeneid?
Camilla, Amazon-like queen allied with Turnus, killed by Aeneas
89
Is Latinus of Latium unwilling to submit to fate?
No
90
Who tried to set the Trojan ships on fire?
Turnus, same as Hector but to the Greeks
91
What is in the centre of the shield of Aeneas?
A "STRIPE OF ACTIUM", which depicts the Battle of Actium, where Cleopatra and Marc Anthony were defeated by Octavian/Augustus Caesar
92
How many times is Hector chased around the city of Troy by Achilles? How many times is Turnus chased around Latium by Aeneas?
3 and 5
93
What Egyptian can Dido be compared to?
Cleopatra
94
Whose side is Hera on in the Iliad? Aeneid?
Iliad: Achilles/Greek
Aeneid: Turnus'/Dido's/NOT the Trojans
95
Why did the name "Troy" fall, and become replaced with "Latin"?
It was Juno's one request, when Jupiter asked her to allow Aeneid to defeat Turnus at Latium
96
What finally causes Aeneas to plunge his sword into Turnus, even after Turnus begs for a proper burial?
Aeneas spots the golden belt of Pallas
97
Euripidean difference in the Agamemnon?
Agamemnon plays a trick on Clytemnestra, has her dress up Iphigeneia, saying she will be married to Achilles, instead she is a bride of death
