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Rhetoric and Great Books
Hillsdale College - Eng 101
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Undergraduate 1
10/17/2012

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Bere'shit
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Genesis
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Incipit
Definition
Title in just a few words
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Alexandria
Definition
Institution of higher learning.
"The Museum" - temple to Muses - collection of manuscripts
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Parashah
Definition
"Portion." Headings in the text.
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Toledot
Definition
Parashah: Generations.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
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Lekh Lekha
Definition
Parashah: Go forth.
Abraham
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Hayyei Sarah
Definition
Parashah: Life of Sarah.
Sarah's death, Abram's life
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Torah
Definition
Law
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Haftarah
Definition
Parting
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Nevi'im
Definition
Prophets
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Ketuvim
Definition
Writings
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Simkhat Torah
Definition
Feast at end of the annual cycle of Torah readings.
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Va Yeshev
Definition
Parashah: And he lived.
Joseph in Egypt, Tamar
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Aliya
Definition
"Go up." Reading scripture with the metaphysical purpose of going up to God, or physically to Jerusalem.
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Va-yera
Definition
Parashat: "And He appeared."
Abraham's visitors
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Va-yetse
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Parashat: "And He left"
Jacob
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Pericles
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Panathenaia
Definition
Annual festival in late summer to celebrate "Greekness."
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Epics
Definition
Illiad, Odyssey.
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Trinity of Greece
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Zeus, Apollo, Athena
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Autoschediasmata
Definition
Digressions added to the story for moral purpose.
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Nostos
Definition
A homecoming. A tending towards home.
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Kleos
Definition
Glory.
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Arete
Definition
Inner virtue. Warrior, seamstress, etc.
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Locus Amoenus
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A pleasant place.
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Calypso
Definition
Hiding.
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Sceptron
Definition
Sceptre. Telemachus throws it down, could be an indication of his immaturity or the overthrow of the Polis. Order disrupted.
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Octopus
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Double Olive Tree
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Diverse Waves
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Scroll 8: 585-605
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Blindness
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Cyclops physical. Od's intellectually.
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Aoidos
Definition
Classical Greek singer.
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Episodes
Definition
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Elpinor
Definition
Falls off roof. First seen in underworld. Odysseus' unfinished business.
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Oar
Definition
Plant it on land. Nostos complete.
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Poseiden
Definition
Brother of Zeus. Enemy of Odysseus.
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Athena
Definition
Goddess of War, Rationality.
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Mentor
Definition
Athena's disguise.
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Telemachus's Manhood
Definition
Not at the beginning, but then takes it up in regard to Penelope.
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Penelope
Definition
Wily, shrewd, heroine.
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Nestor
Definition
Pylos
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Menelaus
Definition
Sparta
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Nausicaa
Definition
Phaeacian girl who saved Odysseus.
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Alcinous
Definition
Father of Nausicaa
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Ino
Definition
Gave Odysseus the scarf to save him from the sea.
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Polyphemus
Definition
Cyclops
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Aeolus
Definition
Gives Odysseus the wind in a bag.
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Cicones
Definition
Sack the city, lose 72 men.
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Laestrygonians
Definition
Giants. All dead but one ship.
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Eurylochus
Definition
Sensed Circe's trap, stays behind and warns Odysseus.
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Circe
Definition
Pigs.
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Hermes
Definition
Shows Odysseus how to defeat Circe.
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Tiresias
Definition
Blind prophet.
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Charybdis
Definition
Whirlpool
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Scylla
Definition
6 heads.
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Ogygia
Definition
Calypso's island. 7 years.
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Eumaeus
Definition
Swineherd. Loyal.
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Antinous
Definition
Mean suitor.
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Rooted Bed
Definition
Proof to Penelope.
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Eurycleia
Definition
The nurse of Odysseus.
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Eumenides
Definition
The kindly ones.
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Hamartia
Definition
Behavior or quality that leads to plot/tragedy.
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Hubris
Definition
Excessive pride.
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Peripeteia
Definition
Sudden change in fortune.
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Anagnorisis
Definition
Realization
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Kairos
Definition
Doing the right thing at right time.
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Dithyramb
Definition
Verse form of Chorus and dance.
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Chorus
Definition
Originally only actors.
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Mimesis
Definition
Pantomime, presentation of self.
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Mnenosyme
Definition
Zeus's wife who he eats.
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Erinyes
Definition
Furies.
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Theologeion
Definition
Raised platform to indicate "Godness."
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