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21 Cards in this Set
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Ecstatic Religion |
myth- newcomer from east followed by satyrs and Maenads cult: women leave domestic life : ecstatic irresponsibility - dancing reveling as Maenads with Tyrsus in mountain |
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Eleusian mysteries |
secret cult accessible only through individual invitation - better hope for afterlife - part of Athenian polis religion -Demeter & Persephone in Eleusis |
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Geometric period |
900-700 BC - small bronze and terracotta figurines |
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dark age pottery |
protogeometric (1050-900)- no animals or humans on pottery geometric (900-725)- grave marker (scene of mourning , funeral procession) |
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Archaic Age pottery |
oreintalizing period (725-625) Black figure style (625-480) Red figure style (525-480) |
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Swastika |
- ancient symbol of auspiciousness - used as decorative symbol in geometric period - Bewegung 19th cent. Germany used as symbol for Aryan race - connection with indoeuropean ancestors |
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Protoattica |
725-625 - cyclops myth on vase - spread of panhellenic myths |
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Black figure style |
625-480 - figures painted in slip turn black during firing, background preserves colour of reddish clay - Ajax suicide scene |
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Red figure style |
525-480 - background painted in slip turns black during firing figures left in red - greater detail |
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Socrates |
469-399 - engages in ethics - how communities should live together - followed by Plato and Aristotle |
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Thales |
origin is water - predicts eclipse of sun - theorem of Thales (every triangle in a circle will have a 90 degree angle) |
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Anaximander |
origin is aperion (unlimited, undefined) |
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Anaximenes |
origin is air |
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Pythagoras of Samos |
- mystical religious community : transimigration - vegetarianism - purification of body - geometry - arithmetic - universe expressed as musical theory |
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Heraclitus of ephesus |
- change - cant step into same river twice |
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Parmenides of Elea |
- being - change cannot exist |
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Hecataeus |
- rationalization of myth (critical thinking) - precursor of Herodotus |
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Social organization of Sparta |
1. spartiates : warriors 2. perioikoi : semi allies- craft trade 3. Helots : state slave |
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Lyric poetry |
- poetry sung accompanied by a lyre or aulos (double pipe) - not dactylic hexameter or drama |
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crisis of Archaic :sparta |
- population growth (no colonization) - 1st Messenian war (enslavement of Messenians across mount Taygetus) |
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Agoge ` |
7-14 hazing, stealing 14- 20 military training and competition 20 - 30 membership in mess = fighting unit |