27 02 2012 23 41 00 Midterm Study Sheet View In Notebook Layout It Looks Better The Midterm exam to be held on Feb 28th will consist of two sections The first will be definitions of people and key terms we have discussed in class You will be given twelve choices and asked to write on ten worth five points each An answer that receives full credit will likely run from two to three sentences and will include 1 identification 2 the sources we have read that discuss the person or topic and 3 any other information you have If the name is an author you will want to tell me roughly in what time period s he lived and the work s we have read by him her love and sex both marital and illicit She was said by Hesiod to be born from the castrated genitals of Ouranos Sappho mentions her a great deal in her poetry leading some to think that Sappho was a priestess of Aphrodite 5 pts Example of a very good answer Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of Following are the names and terms for which you are responsible Agathon Romantic speech of love Talks about how beautiful and awesome it is but his speech has little actual content It is given in a symposium preceeding Socrates See Socrates Agave Daugther of Cadmus Princess of Thebes Mother of pentheus Maenad Killed her own in a frenzy of worship to Dionysus Amazons Tribe of women renowned for their bravery and courage Children of Ares and Harmony Rumored that captives had been boarded on a ship with they overthrew and since could not sail landed randomly ashore Scythians believed them to be men because of their courage Shot bows and threw javelins Road horses Rumored to burn off right breast at infancy Consorted with men for the purpose of offspring only kept girls Gave boys to garagarians Amazons are a Greek fantasy about what it would be like if there were women who were their equals but then they have to kill them because it would be too awesome and they contradict the Greek social views of women Anacreon Court poet at Samos who wrote about sexual pursuit His poetry was graphic and he pursued lowborn women or aristocratic boys He is past his prime and still chases younger men and women Archilochus LF 234 A 7th century Greek soldier poet who has sex with the hesitant daughter of Amphimedo who tells him to try her slutty sister but he refuses because she is too used and promises not to get her pregnant Aristophanes Most famous playwright Watch this It will creep you out but it explains it and you will remember EVERYTHING whether you want to or not http www youtube com watch v 4paSMqKYXtY Aristotle Aristotle comes up with an alternative theory to Hippocratics later 4th BCE Seeks logic theoretical models Not that interested in making people feel better he just wants to know about anatomy Hippocratics believe that women menstruate because they have loose flesh which is porous and soaks up blood from their stomachs men don t because they are better made and are more active o Aristotle believes that menstrual blood is the same kind of thing as semen o The difference is that semen is warmer it is apparently cooked menstrual blood o He doesn t think it is an imbalance of humors just a difference between sexes Aristotle and the Hippocratics o Aristotle considers women to be an almost different species they are an inferior subspecies of humans o Hippocratics consider women completely different not better or worse men and women with the same symptoms are given different treatments Aspasia Pericles had two sons who died in a plague soon after he divorced his wife Aspasia was a foreign Hetaira essentially a Grecian version of a Geisha Pericles was really fond of her and eventually married her after he divorced his wife It was rumored that he kissed her outside his door 2x a day which is strange because that kind of public affection wasn t normal Pericles s begged that his sons by her be accepted as citizens even though she was not a citizen of Greece and the people granted his wish Funny because they would not do this in the case of Stephano but the circumstances were much different See Naera below Binary opposites Male v Female Public v private Greek v Barbarian Human v Divine Reason v Passion Centaurs Half man half horse Drunk lustful mainly show up at weddings and try to steal the Outcasts are known as hunters and are seen as antagonists for bride people Almost all centaurs are men Centaurs are hypermasculine Dionysus God of wine and revelry Son of Semele Born into the thigh of Zeus His mother is killed because she asked to see Zeus in all his glory Tricked by hera Bends down a tree for Pentheus who did not believe in his divinity He destroys people with their own weapons and his followers can t be restrained His followers are called Maenads insane woman Dionysus is a uniting force everyone loves wine and theater Epikleros Daughters can never inherit because they are women attached to the estate money goes with the girl and the nearest male relative marries her ensures that you have close blood relatives If a woman is widowed or divorced the uncle is the first kinsman if the uncle is unwilling then she gets passed down the family line if they all refuse she becomes a ward of the state The money does not go to the marrying uncle but he holds it in trust for the children of the epikleros Eratosthenes Caught sleeping with Euphiletus s wife He was known for this He is murdered by Euphiletus It was unplanned but legal Euphiletus s wife s name is never mention because that would be disrespectful Penalties for adulterous men o Death o Fine o Corporal punishment either by you or a slave o Anal rape either by you or a slave o The fish or the radish really more like a parsnip thrust into the man s anus Euphiletus Euphiletus delivered a skillful presentation to the court regarding the above murder He wisely used his reputation as defense unlike Timarchus see Timarchus below He gathered his neighbors witnesses to bust the affair just before it happened and proved that it was not premeditated What I have to prove I take it is just this that Eratosthenes seduced my wife and that in corrupting her he brought shame upon my children and outrage upon me by entering my home that there was no other enmity between him and me except this and I did not commit this act for the sake of money in order to rise from poverty to wealth nor for any other advantage except the satisfaction allowed by law Gaia Gaia was the first deity She was a female the god of earth Essentially mother earth