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| the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character of literary works. |
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| a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats. |
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| Grammarian in Museum of Alexandria from 260-180 BC. Edited works by Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, etc. |
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| a book that contains handwritten material, normally written on papyrus, paper or vellum. Alternative to a codex is the long scroll |
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| The types of Mistakes in Transcribing |
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emendation - process of making a revision or correction to a text.
unconscious spelling mistakes
misreadings of words |
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Aeschylus: 6-7 plays of 70-90
Sophocles: 7 plays of 123
Euripides: 18-19 play of 90
Carcinus: 0 of 160
Astydamas: 0 of 240 |
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| the process of attempting to ascertain the original wording of a text. |
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| "family tree", trying to fit the archetype into many works |
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| Athaneaus and Deinosophistai |
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fragmented, eating and drinking at parties compares dionysus to a bull b/c those who drink too much wine are prone to violence.
USED to intrepret different meanings in other writers such as Alcaeus, Euripides in Bacchae
Framgments within their work |
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69-26 BC
Buddy of Virgil, on of Octavian's closest supporters
Commander in battle at Actium
made prefect in 30 BC
bad mouths Octavian and is sent in exile, commits suicide
Lots of books written by Gallus - Suetonius, Sequester |
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can be intrepretated many different ways
know so little of them
can be messed with the meaning |
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| The study of human history thru excavation and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains |
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| often described together because they are helpful to an archaeological excavation site |
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| 5th century sculpture that we know from classical texts |
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contributes to black and red figure pottery
-red figure color of clay
-black figure is the opposite
-he looked at painting techniques
-helped classify a lot of pottery (grouping them) |
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the branch of geology concerned with the order and relative position of strata and their relationship to the geological time scale.
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| a written or spoken language in it's ordinary form WITHOUT metrical structure. IE: Oratory, history, philosophy |
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| a distinctive style of rhythm. examples: Epic, Drama, Lyric |
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a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
- sung verse in hexameters, invocation of the muses, similes, speeches, etc. |
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a play in which the protagonist, usually a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal
-generally mythical, sometimes historical, metrically diverse (choruses sung, actors spoke) |
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| a sung poem, (from lyre), typically express personal (often emotional) feelings and are traditionally spoken in the present tense |
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| sung and danced, more public elaborate meters |
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| more personal, simpler meter |
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a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.
-often sung in symposia |
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shift from the diachronic to the synchronic
- designed by Ferdinand de Saussure |
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| trying to understand Indo-European linguistics, and hypothesized the sounds that they make based on the things he saw |
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the relationship between texts
IE: Ovid, Amores 1.1-2 and Virgil, Aeneid 1.1-2, and then later in Homer's Odyssey. Ovid influences Virgil who influences Homer |
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