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Oedipus1. Oedipus  Greek hero. Has two mortal parents, Merope and Polybos. “Oedipus” means oed = “swollen” and pous = “foot”; swollen foot because he had the pins in his ankles. Oedipus is told he will kill his father and marry his mother.2. Laios  King of Thebes. Him and his wife, Jacasta, go to Apollo to see how they can have children.3. Jocasta Queen of Thebes. Herself and her husband, Laios, go to Apollo to see how they can have children.4. Thebes  Laios and Jacasta are the king and queen of Thebes.5. Delphic oracle  oracle of Apollo at Delphi. Thought of as a place where you could communicate directly with a god at this place. Often a priest/priestess there to act as an intermediary. Tells Oedipus he will kill his father and marry his mother.6. Apollo  God of prophecy. Laios and Jocasta go to Apollo to see how they can have children. 7. Delphi  the place where the Oracle of Apollo was. It was thought of as a place where you could communicate directly with a god. Often a priest/priestess there to act as an intermediary.8. Merope  Queen of Cornith. Receive Oedipus from a shepherd and raises him as their own.9. Polybos  King of Cornith. Receive Oedipus from a shepherd and raises him as their own.10. Corinth  Merope and Polybos are the king and queen of Cornith. Oedipus leaves Corinth to “save” his parents, so they wont be in danger of him killing his father, Polybos, or marrying his mother, Merope.11. Creon  Jocasta’s brother, Oedipus’ uncle. Becomes King of Thebes when Oedipus kills Laios.12. Sphinx  Sphinx is a monster that terrorizes Thebes. He asks a riddle and kills whoever can’t answer it. Oedipus solves the riddle and Sphinx jumps to her death. Creon rewards him kingship and the queen Jocasta. The oracle has been fulfilled; he has killed his father and now married his mother. 13. Sophocles  Athenian tragedian. Lived to be around 90 years old. Wrote over 120 plays however we only have 7. 14. Oedipus the King  written by Aristotle.15. Aristotle  philosopher. Uses Oedipus the king as a model for all tragedies.16. Poetics  Literary criticism. Philosopher Aristotle uses this. 17. Hamartia  Harmata is not a tragic “flaw”, which was the oldview, but it was a “mistake” made by hero of tragedy. Repeated mistakes lead to their doom.18. Anagnorisis  Means recognition. At first the hero can’t really see whats going on and then they have a moment of realization and finally realizes what was going on as seen with Oedipus. 19. dramaticirony  audience knows more than characters. This is seen as Oedipus doesn’trealize when he kills the old man, he is really killing his father. 20. Teiresias  bilnd prohphet. Finally tells Oedipus he is the murderer. 21. Chiton  pins on Jocasta’s dress. After realizing the oracle was true, and seeing Jocasta hung her self, he uses the pins on her dress to gauge his eyes out. 22. Sigmund Freud Austrian psychiatrist. Came up with the Oedipus Complex. According to Freud, all sons want to sleep with their mothers and they’re jealous of the fathers.23. OedipusComplex  Created by Freud. It is the sexual desire of son for mother and the jealousy of son for father.24. Herodotus  Greek historian. He has a different metaphorical meaning for Greeks. Tellsthe story of Hippias, the exiled Athenian tyrant.25. Hippias  exiled Athenian tyrant. Greek historian Herodotus tells his story. Another Oedipus: The Tragedies of Sophocles and Seneca26. Seneca  4 BCE – 65 CE. Roman statesman, philosopher, and author. He was the advisor to Roman Emperor Nero and the prominent Roman Stoic.27. Stoic  Seneca was the prominent Roman Stoic. Stoics believe that the world would endin either fire or water.28. Seneca’sOedipus  examined themes he thought was important. Had many similarities as well as differences from Sophocles’’ Oedipus.Rig Veda29. Rig Veda  oldest literary work of India. Earliest form of Sanskrit language. Rig “praise+ veda “knowledge”; knowledge in the praise of the gods.30. Sanskrit  Indo-European language. Related to English, ancient Greece, Latin, and German. The Rig Veda was the earliest form of Sanskrit language.31. Vedic people  composed Rig Veda. We think they called themselves the Aryans.32. Agni  Vedic god of fire. Binatural god. Controls all possible senses of fire33. Soma  Defied sacred drink. We don’t know exactly what Soma was made of but it wasa drink that somehow produced a narcotic, high effect. 34. Indra  King of the Vedic gods. God of thunder and war. Avid drinker of soma.35. Vritra  Dragon/serpant. Holding back all the waters of the world. Indrud uses her thunderbolts to attack and kill Vritra and then rivers are created.36. Tiamat  Sea god who battles a storm god and her waters are released to create rivers similar to Vritra. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are created out of her eyes. 37. Sarama  Indra’s dog. Loyal dog that can talk.38. Panis  demons who live beyond the River Rasa that encircles the heaven and earth. They stole cattle, and Indra’s dog, Sarama is tracking down the cattle. 39. riverRasa  encircles the heavens and the earth. The Panis, or demons, live beyond it. 40. Golden Embryo  unknown creator god. Given the title, not the name, as the Golden Embryo. Referred to as Hiranyagarbha. There are a lot of internal contradictions with the golden embryo. 41. Hiranyagarbha  is the Golden Embryo. Gold = hirany and womb/seed/embryo/egg = garbha.42. Prajapati  creator god. seen in a later addition.43. Purusha  comsic giant and primeval male. He is not a human being, he is a god and a giant. Sacrificed to create the universe.44. Aditi  female creative force/infinity. we think she is the mother of Indra. Give birth to earth which holds up the sky.45. Daksha  male creative force. Aditi vies birth to him and he gives birth to her. Another internal contradiction. 46. Martanda  Sun god. one of Aditit’s sons. Rejected by Aditi because the sun dies (sets)every day she thinks it’s defected.47. Yama  King of the dead. First moral to reach death realm, succefully making it to the afterlife. 48. Three Days of Soma  Ceremony. After cremation the fire burns for 3 days.Chinese Creation and Flood49. Chinese  Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China. Distinguished by its high level of internal diversity.50. Shang (or


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