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History of Ideas; characters
characters in all the things we've read
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12th Grade
12/15/2009

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Patroclus
Definition
Iliad
death leads Achilles to fight
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Agamemnon
Definition
Iliad
prideful, leads army
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Hector
Definition
Iliad
chose pride over death
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Andromache
Definition
Iliad
Hector's wife
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Priam
Definition
Iliad
Hector's father, begs Achilles for body
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Odysseus
Definition
Iliad and Odyssey (duh)
pain inflicted pain endured
wise,
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Penelope
Definition
Odeyssey
Odysseus's wife, wise (tricked suitors), "secrets" with tree(agnorisis)
weaving
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Achilles
Definition
Iliad
anger, honor and death over living, mother Thetis
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Telemachus
Definition
Odyssey
odysseus's son, grows up throughout epic, also anagnorisis, helped by athena
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Antinous
Definition
Odyssey
leader of the suitors, a big bully
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Eurycleia
Definition
Odyssey
old slave woman who recognized Odysseus
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Calypso
Definition
Odeyssey
beautiful goddess who keeps Odysseus captive
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Polyphemus
Definition
Odyssey
Cyclops, son of posiden, blinded
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Laertes
Definition
Odyssey
Odysseus's father
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Tiresias
Definition
Odyssey: blind priphet, in Hades
O. stories: warns everyone about what's coming...(creon and o's parents and o)
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Antigone
Definition
daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
Antigone: proud, determinded to bury her brother, kills herself
O. at Col: she helps her father, warns her brother not to fight
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Ismene
Definition
sister to Antigone
O. at Col: didn't really help her father but was there for him...
Anti: weakling, doesn't help Antigone
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Creon
Definition
King of Thebes(after O) and brother-in-law to O.
Anti: hubris, learns his lesson
O. Rex: shocked, friend, treats o nicely
O. Col: begs O to come back
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Haemon
Definition
son of Creon
Anti: in love, tries to stop his father, fails and kills himself
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Eurydice
Definition
Creon's wife
kills herself after her son dies
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Oedipus
Definition
King of Thebes
blind, prideful, learns his lesson, exiled, apotheosis
patricide
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Jocasta
Definition
wife and mother of O (gross!)
kills herself when she realizes
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Theseus
Definition
king of Athens
keeps promise to protect O's resting place
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Polynices and Eteocles
Definition
sons of O
both want O's position(king...), O curses them, they fight and both fall(7 against Thebes)
Poly was exiled, Eteo had city
Term
Prometheus
Definition
forethought
"Saved" man form dieing out(educated them)
new his punishment but also help knowledge of excape
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Io
Definition
princess turned cow and followed by a gadfly
talks to P. kids will evetually lead to the killer of Zeus
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Xerxes
Definition
prideful; makes war on a peaceful nation and get owned
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Darius
Definition
X-man's father
ashamed at the failure of his son
tells his wife, the Queen, to meet X-man witha cloak
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Suppliants
Definition
daughters of Danaus
flee marriage to evil cousins
seek asylum in Argos
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Pelasgus
Definition
King of Argos
very democratic; asks citizens if they should keep women
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Egyptus
Definition
brother of Danaus, his sons are chasing the suppliants
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Medea
Definition
Barbaros(foriegn)
kinda crazy, extremly hurt by Jason's betrayal and seeks revenge
kills Glauce, creon's daughter, and her own kids all just to hurt Jason
escapes(deus ex machine) to Athens
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Jason
Definition
stupidly leaves Medea for Glauce
reasons:
keep kids safe
become wealthy (provide)
keep status(fame)
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Aegeus
Definition
Kind of Athens
promises Medea safetly if he will help him have children
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Electra
Definition
daughter of Agamemnon
forced to marry a peasant, wants mother and her lover dead
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Orestes
Definition
son of Agememon
exciled to save his life, comes back to revenge his father's death(mother killed him)
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Clytemnestra
Definition
formally Agememon's wife
killed Ag. to revenge her daughter's death, Aegisthus is her lover
Term
Old Man (Electra)
Definition
teacher of Orestes, helped him escape
recognizes Or. from a scar
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Solon
Definition
statesman, archon, helped people with mortaguages,
Father of "democracy"
no pay for athletes
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Callinus
Definition
what would you die for?
patriotic verses
elegy-while flute was playing
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Archilogus
Definition
party!
athlete/soldier
leaves sheild in battle (writing)
illigitamate son
"betrotherd" but broke it off:lampoon
died in battle
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Tyrtaeus
Definition
state poet, sung by soldiers
patriotic, died for country
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Aleaeus
Definition
wine drinker
liked horses
maybe mercenary
ship metaphor for state
drinking songs
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Simonides
Definition
epithphs and epigrams, travelled a lot
epinicians = odes to victory
soclians= drinking songs
large fees; great memory(mnemonics)
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Sappho
Definition
school for girls/ "cult"
epithalamia = wedding songs
11th c Pope Gregory banded works
peotry, personal, passionate
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Aeschylus
Definition
(525-456 B.C)
added 2nd actore => dialogue
death by eagal dropping totoise shell
90 plays- 7 survive
theme = deep forces of man
[P bound, 7 vs, Supp, Persians]
Term
Sophocles
Definition
(497-505)
added 3rd actor
increased dialogue
scene paintings
[O's plays]
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Euripides
Definition
(480-406)
least pop but has grown
psychological themes
view universe as chaotic; irrational
[Medea and Electra]
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Herodotus
Definition
(484-425) Samos
Father of History
defined history = inquires
history = moral lessons
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Thucydides
Definition
(460-395)Athens?
Father of "Scientific History)
history= political, no morality
more factual
(Hobbes and Machiavelli = political realism)
survived Plague of Athens
blamed for loss of Amphipolis (city)
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Hippocrates
Definition
(460-370) Kos
Father of Clinical Medicine
replaced by Galen
Hippocratic Oath
soil and seed metaphor
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Euclid
Definition
(371-285) Alexandria
Father of Geometry
prior to Archimedes
book: Elements
Euclidean geometry
Term
Archimedes
Definition
(287-212)
Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventer, astromnomer
"Do not disturb my circles!" (death during seige)
"Eurika"
method of exhaustion (myriad)
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