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CLST 101 Exam Study Guide.
Hamartia - answer✔a fatal flaw or mistake leading to the downfall of the tragic hero
Peri Petei - answer✔Reversal of fortune
Anagnorisis - answer✔recognition
Katharsis - answer✔"purgation," tragedy should make you feel
Ephebe - answer✔An age of a young man; not ready to get married but ready for war
Menis - answer✔godly rage, used for Achilles in first line of Iliad
Metis - answer✔cunning intelligence, Odysseus' epithet, Mother of Athena
Aganoria - answer✔excessive masculinity in a bad way, used for suitors
Aner - answer✔man, as opposed to god; first word of Odyssey
androcentrism vs. patriarchy - answer✔men are the center of the social power vs.
fathers/husbands are the most important
Aristeia - answer✔being your best fighter (going on killing sprees); risks safety of self and
family, only way to get honor. Example: Hector
Imeros vs. Eros - answer✔love and sex vs. erotic love
Xenia - answer✔guest friendship, also the name of a person
hybis - answer✔abuse, is it ok to have sex with a young boy if he's going to grow up and do the
same thing?
pederasty - answer✔love of a young boy
hetaira - answer✔female companion, often immigrants
sophrosyne - answer✔self control/discipline, healthy mind
tribias - answer✔a woman whose sexual behaviors are non-normative
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kinaedos - answer✔sexually weird/non-normative man
Penelope - answer✔Odysseus' wife, shrewd and careful
Eurycleia - answer✔loyal slave and nurse of Odysseus
Slave girls in Odyssey - answer✔disloyal, slept with suitors, hung by Telemachus in Book 22
Clytemnestra - answer✔kills Agamemnon because she was having an affair with another man
Agamemnon - answer✔married to Clytemnestra, in charge of the Greek army, takes Chryseis as
a war prize, fights with Achilles about pride
Paris vs. Hector in the Iliad - answer✔debate of masculinity; hector: perfect example of a manly
man; paris: perfect example of a feminine man, aphrodite takes him out of battle
Sappho - answer✔6th century poet in Lesbos, writes 9 books of lyrics, sung by chorus.
Sappho 1 - answer✔written to Aphrodite, pulled down in a chariot by sparrows from the sky,
she will help find Sappho someone to love
Sappho 16 - answer✔whatever you love is the most beautiful on earth
Sappho 31 - answer✔translated/copied by Catullus 51. "he seems to me equal to the gods,"
poem is about the woman next to the man. unrequited love and the physical reactions to it
(fiery skin, blind and muteness)
Sappho 57 - answer✔"What country girl bewitches your mind... dressed in her country
clothes... not knowing how to pull her ragged dress over her ankles." similar pastoral, innocent,
vibes to Daphnis and Chloe
Hippolytus Genre, Author, Date, Setting - answer✔Greek Tragedy by Euripides, written 428 BC,
Troezen- palace of Theseus
City Dionysia - answer✔Located in Athens, 3 day festival with 3 tragedies by 3 playrites, non-
Athenian actors, Theater of Dionysus located within, procession up a big hill with animals,
parade of war orphans, epebes, worship of Dionysus
Hippolytus Theme - answer✔"what happens when we lose control?" - Hippolytus = "the setting
free of horses", Phaedra overtaken by Aphrodite
Euripides' Idealized Love - answer✔balanced, from a distance, nothing in excess
