CLT3370 FINAL 1 multiple choice from powerpoints 2 Passage identifications identify author work speaker 3 Two essays shorts essays that 1 explain the significance of the passage 2 relate the passage to larger themes from the course Texts Sophocles Oedipus Rex Antigone Aeschylus Agamemnon Eumenides Euripides Medea Virgil Aeneid Ovid Metamorphoses Tennyson Ulysses Auden The shield of Achilles Milosz Orpheus and Euryidice defintions Part 2 no work will be repeated Terms First 10 are matching textbook pg 173 174 in the defintions Match roman god goddess with Greek equivalent or sphere of influence in Thespis Athenian playwright known as the father of drama for having created the first role for an actor Phrynicus an early tragedian the first to produce plays about contemporary history such as the Capture of Miletus Aeschylus Greek tragedian who wrote Agamemnon and Eumenides Sophocles Greek tragedian who wrote the Theban plays the trilogy Oedipus Rex and Antigone Euripides Tragedian in ancient Athens who is known for Medea Theater of Dionysus a major open air theater and one of the earliest preserved theaters in Athens Persian Wars In 508 BC Athens instituted the world s first democratic constitution only to have it threatened by two successive Persian military invasions successfully repelled at the battles of Marathon and Salamis Peloponnesian Wars In 431 404 BC an acient Greek war fought between Athens and its empire against Peloponnesian League led by Sparta The Peloponnesian war completely reshaped the ancient Greek world Athens went from the strong city state to a reduced state of near complete subjection Punic Wars a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage The main cause of the wars was due to conflict of interest The Romans wanted to expand Sicily which was under Carthaginian control Agamemnon king of Mycenae son of Atreus and his wife was the brother of Menelaus After Atreus was murdered by his nephew Aegisthus Agamemnom took refuge with Tyndareus king of Sparta whose daughter Clytemnestra he married They had 4 kids including Orestes When Paris carried off Helen Agemenon called on the princess of the country to unite in war of revenge against the Trojans Clytemnestra daughter of Leda and Tyndareus and wife of Agememon She took Aegisthus as her lover while Agamemnom was at war When he returned she and her lover murdered him Clytmenestra was then killed by her son Orestes with the help of his sister in revenge for his father s murder Orestes son of Agamemnon and Clytmenstra and the brother of Electra When his father returned from the Trojan War he was murdered by Clytmenstra and her lover Aegisthus Orestus who was young at the time went into exile and swore to get revenge When he reached adulthood he secretly returned home and plotting with his sister Electra killed Aegisthus and Clytmenstra As a consequence Orestes was tormented by the Erinyes Furies who followed him everywhere he went They stopped when he sought judgement for his crime at the Aeropagus in Athens and was acquitted Electra Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes she conspired with her brother to avenge their murdered father Iphigenia Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra whom her father sacrificed at Aulis to prevent the Greeks expedition against Troy from being disbanded Aegisthus Son of Thyestes and his daughter Pelopia he became Clytemnestra s lover and was slain for Orestes because he killed Agamemnon Cassandra Daughter of Priam and Hecuba She was Apollo s virgin prophet part of Agamemnon s booty from try she was brought to Argos where Clytemnestra murdered her Atreus a son of Pelops and king of Mycenae he was the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus Tantalus Son of Zeus and father of Pelops whose flesh he served to the Olympians an act for which he was condemned to eternal torment in Tartarus Dike goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement in immemorial custom in the sense of socially enforced norms and conventional rules Daughter of Zeus and themis often depicted as the woman holding a balancing scale Pylades Loyal friend of Orestes who accompanied him to Mycenae Multiple Causation the relating of causes to the effects they produce Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede and effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect Over Determination devised by Sigmund Freud to denote multiple determinations and hence interpretations of dreams The Furies Born from Uranus s blood they were goddesses of blood vengeance in Aeschylus they were daughters of the Night Also known as the Erinyes The Eumenides Greek name for the Kindly Ones formerly the Furies The Areopagus Court a court established for homicides by Athene the site of Orestes trial in the Eumenides Oedipus Son of Laius and Jocasta father of Ismene Antigone Eteocles and Polyneices and king of Thebes his myth demonstrates human inability to circumvent the gods will The Sphinx Enigmatic creature with the head of a woman body of a lion and wings of an eagle infamous for killing anyone who tried but failed to solve its riddles Polybus king of Corinth he raised Oedipus as a son because Lauis and Jocasta abandoned him He was the true father of Alcinoe Oedipus got the prophecy that he would kill his father and murder his mother so he exiled himself When he got news that Polybus died of natural causes he was relieved He did not know he actually did kill his real father King Laius but later found out at the end of the play Merope wife of Polybus adopted Oedipis Jocasta queen consort at Thebes Greece and wife of Laius Oedipus ended up unknowingly killing Laius and marrying Jocasta Oedipus completed the prophecy and a plague fell on the city and upon hearing the news Jocasta hung herself Laius King of Thebes and the father of Oedipus He is killed by Oedipus because he did not know he was his real father and ended up completing the prophecy of killing his father and marrying his mother unknowingly until later on Tiresias blind Theban prophet who had temporarily been changed into a woman giving him the experience to settle a quarrel between Hera and Zeus over which sex has the greater capacity for sexual pleasure Hera blinded him for his candid answer while Zeus gave him long life and insight Antigone Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta she was her blinded father s guide in Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus and the heroine of Antigone Eteocles Son of Oedipus and Jocasta he was killed in a
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