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05/04/2008

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kallinikos
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victor
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ritone
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drinking horn
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kanthros
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a large vessel/mask (worn by Dionysus)
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autochtony
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coming about out of the Earth itself (Ex: Erichthonesus- the ancestral king of Athens who was born of the Earth)
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Chthonic
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earth
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epics
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contain enormous amount of time with relatively little detail
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petagaros
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"man is the measure of all things"
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nostoi
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homecomings
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nostalgea
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pain for home when away
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hoi sophoi
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wise men
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typhonic
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just pure rage and energy aka Brady Lonergan
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palinode
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recantation
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phenomena
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appearances that don't actually share in true reality
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palatine
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one of the seven hills of Rome, where emperor Augustus lived and where his library was located
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personification
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giving human characteristics to non-human things (ex: Gaia as the Earth... really developed more in Ovid)
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personification allegory
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incorporated into an action or narrative (Envy-bk 12, Hunger- bk 8, sleep bk 11, rumor bk 12)
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eris
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"hate"
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litai
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"prayers"
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allegory
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a narrative that occurs over a certain span of time
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invidia
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"envy" in latin literally means to look at something but to look at it ascance
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pietas
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"duty" we get the word piety from it
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syllepsis
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both a literal and a figurative use of a word "to see/ crime"
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fama
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rumor- cognate w/ speaking, our word fame comes from it
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Rumor
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mythological stories are magnified over time (tall tale) like the result of the bronze walls of the house of Rumor which reverberate
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apotheosis
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deification of a mortal into a god (ex: Hercules)
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aesculapirs
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comes from the story and history of the roman republic
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thesauros
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treasure house- specifically a treasure of grain (silo)
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myesis
Definition
initiation cults you had to be initiated in a certain ritual ceremony (cult of Demeter-Eleusian)
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mysterion
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initiating secret (ex" blade of cut wheat for the cult of Demeter at Eleusis)
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kore
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maiden
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archetypes
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developed by carl g Jung- an expressed though- archaic remnants, often in the form of fantasies or myths that are inherited shapes of the human mind, a collective unconscious or universal instinct (ex: mother/daughter archetype exhibited by Demeter and Persephone)
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apocatastasis
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relation to something prior to self
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adon (adonis)
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semitic word for lord
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hetaerism
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polygamy, hetaira-concubine
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ecstasis
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ecstasy extreme happiness/ wild pleasure/ bliss/ heightened state of self/ Greek to be beside yourself or to step outside yourself in doing so- you can create an empty vessel that Dionysis can come fill (possession associated with god of wine)
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enthusiasmos
Definition
to allow the god to enter inside of you; to take the god within (in this case Dionysus)
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thersos
Definition
a fennel stalk
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amphore
Definition
two handled jar of wine (dionysus wedding gift to peleus and thetis also the urn in which the ashes of patroclus and achilles were placed)
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eros
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romantic love
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philia
Definition
brotherly love (family love- the normal kind)
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thebes
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land of grazing herds of cows- one of the few places in greece with fertile open pastures- established by Cadmus when he was searching for Europa (overrating kinship- Levin Strauss)- goes to Oracle at delphi, says "follow first cow you see and where it lies down settle Thebes") he does this, comes to contact with a dragon, neutralized it and sows its teeth to make the Spartoi (sown men- Lycus was a descendent-usurper in Euripdes' Heracles) who fought each other, five survived and became the other noble houses of Thebes (other notable members: Ino, Autonoe, Semele, Agave, Pentheus, and Heracles)
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linear B
Definition
mycenaean civilization (ruled Greek mainland islands from 1500-1200 BC- Greek Bronze Age)-- clay tablets concerning palace inventory were found, gave proof of early existence of dionysus- comes from the minoan linear A which has yet to be translated
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tyrant
Definition
not someone who inherits power, gains power through seizure of power by way of skill (ironic ex: Oedipus tyrannos)- tyrants promoted the cult of dionysus because it appealed to the masses/ also why the aristocracy doesn't like dionysus
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labdakos
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lame
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laios
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left-sided
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swell-foot
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oedipus, see levi-strauss
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ideas
Definition
forms/ an image that is seen
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fabricator mundi
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craftsman and creating the world
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chaos
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god but also a raw undivided mass- the universe before the world was shaped
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invidia/invidere
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looking askance at something (what envy does in story of Aflaurus and Herse and mercury)
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pietas
Definition
duty
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augusta
Definition
gravitate (exalted gravity/awe)
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