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Culture and Values Midterm
Covers Ancient Greece and Rome The Dark Ages
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History
Undergraduate 1
06/18/2013

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Hubris
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Greek for insolence, excessive and self-destructive pride and ambition
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Pythagoras
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presocratic philosopher from Samos. Founded a school that upheld chasiy and morals
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Sappho
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Lyricist born on Lesbos
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Olympus
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legendary founder of Greek music.
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ionic
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architectural style of temples date 5th ce BCE
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Peisistratos
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tyrant who ruled Athens during the period between 561 and 527 bce
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orientalizing
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type of styling adapted from Asia minor and brought to Greece around 600 BCE
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Painted vases/pottery
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was the most survived form of ancient Greek art. Much is learned about the culture of the time from these.
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Zeus
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Father of gods, god of gods...king of Olympus.
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Homer
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Wrote the epics "Iliad" and "Odesy"
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Alexander the Great
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last leader of the ancient Greek empire
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Thucydides
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Wrote History of Peleoponnesian War but did not finish it.
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Satyr Play
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light hearted play about a mythological figure with animal ears and tail
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Aeschylus
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wrote the Oresteia trilogy
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Antigone
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play written by Aeschylus about a sister her defies the king to give her brother a proper burial
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hamartia
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the Greek word for flaw in one's character that leads to their own destruction
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Sophists
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professional philosophers
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Metaphysics
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Aristotle's philosophical book on how things work
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harmony
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Joining together
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Tholos
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Greek architectural word for round building.
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Tuba
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only significant contribution by Romans to music
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Etruscans
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significant source of Roman culture. Romans defeated them and became Rome
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Toga
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Typical attire of Roman peoples
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forum
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a place governmental meetings were had
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Ennius
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wrote "Annals" a tragic play-write
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Marcus Aerelius
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a ruler who was conflicted about his stoic beliefs and wrote "Meditations"
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Sulla
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built a sanctuary in Praeneste (modern Palestine)
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Pliny the Younger
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wrote firsthand account of the eruption of Vasuvious
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triumphal arch
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originally Roman commemorated military arches
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barrel vaults
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constructed to roof large buildings with the capacity to hold thousands of people
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aqueducts
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early plumbing; this network of pipes allowed everyon access to water.
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Charlemagne
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"Charles the Great", brought education and art back into the dark ages
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Alcuin of York
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hired by Charlemagne to teach because he had been trained in the intellectual tradition of the Venerable Bede
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Sacramentary
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a book of prayers and rites for the admins of the church
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monasticism
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came into the west from the great eastern tradition of asceticism (self-denial) and eremitism (the solitary life)
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monophonic
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one voice describes music consisting of a single melodoic line.
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a capella
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to sing w/o accompaniment
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Theophilus
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prose legend written by the German Nun-poet Hroswitha
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Dagulf Psalter
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Carolingian manuscript that allows us to see both illumination and ivory work
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calligraphy
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the cultavation of handwriting as an art form
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archivolts
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the molding that frames an arch
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Palerinage
Definition
a voyage
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Strasbourg
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a place where cathedral of or lady Strasbourg in France, considered a fine example of Gothic Architecture
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Villard de Honnecourt
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13th century artict from Picardy, France. Known for a surviving portfolio of 33 sheets of parchment with 250 drawings of many different things
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cathedrals
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the church of the bishop named for the seat of chair (cathedra) from which he preached and taught
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guild
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the medieval associations of artisans or tradesmen, precursors of modern trade Unions
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Bologna
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Town in Italy where St. Petronius build the church of St. Stefano and build it up.
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Scholasticism
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a method of critical thought which dominated academics of mideavl times.
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mendicant
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a member of a religious order combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal or public property (beggar---"Alms alms for the poor")
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Dante Aligheri
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wrote "Dante's Inferno
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Decameron
Definition
book of Prince Galenat is a 14th cn medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people.
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Canzoniere
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aka Rime Sparse, but originally titled "Rerum Vulgarium Fragmentia" a collection of poems by the Halian humanist, poet and writer Frances Petrarca
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Canterbury Tales
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collection of stories written in the middle ages by Geofry Chaucer at the end of the 14th century
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Giovanni Pisano
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Italian sculptor and painter and archatect who worked in the cities of Pisa, Siena and Pistoia. He is best known for his sculpture which shows the influence of the French Gothic and Ancient ROman styles.
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diptych
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2 leaved hinged tablet folded together to protect the writing on its waxed surfaces
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renissance, he is perhaps most famous for his discovery of the perspective and for engineering the dome of the Florence.
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Franceso Landini
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an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker
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ars nova
Definition
musical style which flourished in France and the Burgundian low countries in the late middle ages. More particuarly in the period between the preparations of the Roman De Favvel and the death of the composer Guilaume De Machaut in 1377
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musica ficta
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term used in eropean music theory in the late 12th centurary to describe pitches notated or added by performers in accordance with their trainining that lie outside of the system of music recta or vera correct or true defined by hexachord system of Guido of Arezzo
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Prague
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14th centtury golden age, John of Luxenmburg ruled first part of the 14th cn and Charles IV took over in 1346. Became known as the most loved ruler of the Czech land.
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