Literature Terms - Lecture
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- "take up and read", augustine's conversion
- tolle, lege
- festival in end of march, see plays by three different tragedians (3 tragedies and 1 satyr)
- Great Dionysia
- y
- Elissa
- commits incest with father
- Myrhha
- y
- Diana
- y
- Chorus
- y
- Palinurus
- christians end OT w/Malachi to clear the way for Jesus
- Malachi
- y
- Socrates
- y
- Antitype
- y
- Hermes
- y
- Odysseus' Scar
- y
- Ithaca
- chased by apollo; prays for help and transformed into laurel; laruel thereafter sacred to apollo
- Daphne
- Lysistrata's handmaid; is divided up
- Peace
- Juno takes away her voice; rejected by Narccisus; turns to stone until only voice remains; echo on stone
- Echo
- Myrrha's father; incest
- Cinyras
- turn toward; usus; love God through signs
- converto
- y
- Tragedy
- soul fell into the body and forgot what it knew
- anamnesis
- 7 planets, 7 notes in scale; believes until 1700
- Harmony of the Spheres
- Calypso's island
- Ogygia
- y
- Gadfly
- y
- Anytus
- King & Queen of Phaeacians
- Arete and Alcinous
- y
- Hellenistic
- y
- contraposto
- y
- Minoans
- Art of Love; Remedies of Love; Metamorphoses
- Ovid's Three Works
- y
- acropolis
- spartan representative in Lysistrata; large and protrayed as "hick"
- Lampito
- y
- Circe
- y
- Gates of Ivory and of Horn
- y
- Sophocles
- ca. 80-90 CE; for Jews, convince that Jesus is Messiah
- Matthew
- y
- Pericles
- y
- Abraham
- OT events are types; fulfilled by NT antitypes; e.g. babel & pentacost; thus read unity in text
- Read Typologically
- I confess to you
- Confiteor Tibi
- y
- Creon
- y
- Sophists
- responsible, gravitas, contrast with Greek passion
- Pius Aeneas
- Eumaeus
- Teiresias
- proved "pythagoran theorum"; harmony of the spheres; arithmatical basis of music (octaves, etc)
- Pythagoras
- events turn out to be the opposite of what was expected; e.g.
- Situational Irony
- Miroslav Zovko
- TA's Name
- y
- revelations
- y
- Dido
- greek homosexuality; older man pursues younger; older man is a mentor, younger man provides favors
- erotic game
- y
- Trojan War
- y
- Arms and the Man
- y
- Lotos Eaters
- ONE man in charage of war-time affairs
- stratego
- chronological order of events
- Story
- y
- Menelaus
- y
- Tartarus
- y
- Jonah
- y
- Polyphemus
- y
- Isaiah
- "disbander of armies"
- Lysistrata's name
- Oedipus' name; Odysseus' name
- Puns
- "spiritual orgasm"
- ostia
- Augustine in On Christian Doctrine; blusing, smoke, etc; comtrast with conventional signs
- Natural Signs
- athenian millitary commander in time of war; compare with Lysistrata
- strategist
- y
- Mercury
- first five books of bible; christian name for Torah
- Pentateuch
- Aeneid; greek traitor
- Sinon
- saying or doing something while unaware of the ironic contrast with the truth; e.g. Oedipus
- Dramatic Irony
- y
- Melanthius
- y
- Archaic
- matthew mark luke; see together
- Synoptic Gospels
- y
- Antinous
- short story with moral or religious lesson; teach people to read metaphorically
- Parable
- rome is an eternal empire without end, e.g. Virgil; denied by Ovid
- Roma Aeterna
- y
- Demodocus
- y
- Aristotle
- not speaking; sin is social and linguistic
- In-fans
- y
- Intertextuality
- defeated Atalanta in footrace; doesn't thank Venus and so is killed
- Hippomenes
- younger lover in greek homosexuality; "unwilling"; learns from older man and provides sexual favors
- eromenos
- y
- Creusa
- y
- Hecataeus
- y
- Type
- y
- Joseph
- ca. 80-90 CE; for erudite Greeks
- Luke
- Jerome translated; poor latin, augustine didn't like
- Latin Vulgate Bible
- description of work of art within a work of art; e.g. friezes of Trojan War on the walls of Carthage
- Ekphrasis
- Dichotomy, Arrow,; motion is impossible
- Zeno's Paradoxes
- y
- Ascanius
- turn away; fructus; pervert the good by misusing signs
- perverto
- y
- Plato
- y
- Job
- Augustine convince pagans of christianity
- City of God
- many-eyed guard of Io, appointed by Juno
- Argus
- origin of language; read typologically with pentacost
- Babel
- Torah, Prophets, Writings
- Hebrew Bible Divisions
- peripeteia (reversal), recognition (anagnorisis), Oedipus great because both are simutaneous
- Aristotle's Poetrics
- Bucolics; Georgics; Aeneid
- Virgil's Three Works
- y
- Mycenaeans
- God is the incarnation of the perfect Platonic forms, the world is thus made of signs that point to God
- Signs
- Lysistrata's neighbour; embraces feminine
- Kleonike
- y
- Proteus
- to swell/foot.two footed
- Oidein/Oida/dipous
- oligarchical overseers of Athenian state
- probouli
- reversal
- peripeteia
- supposedly invented freek theater in 6th century
- Thespis
- migration of culture; troy to rome to london to new york
- Translatio Studii
- Miroslav Zovko
- TA's Name
- y
- Lycon
- the world is composed of signs pointing towards God's existence
- book of signs
- male head of household
- Paterfamilias
- y
- Isaac
- y
- Antigone
- y
- Elpenor
- y
- Elysium
- to use; to use the signs to love God
- utor, usus
- appointed kingship
- tyrannos
- y
- Laertes
- y
- Helen
- y
- Lethe
- Teiresius says he's be old if he doesn't know himself; echo; falls in love with his reflection in pond; dies of thirst and self-love
- Narciciss
- love God through signs
- Caritas
- y
- Polytropic Man
- behind stage storage; backdrops for stage attached to it
- skene
- respond to forerunning authors; e.g. ovid must take on Virgil
- Anxiety of Influence
- y
- Anchises
- augustine's mother
- Monnica
- y
- Penelope
- y
- Venus
- y
- Jocasta
- y
- axiomatization
- to enjoy; fruit; to love the signs in themselves
- fruor, fructus
- y
- Eumaios
- y
- Meletus
- ca. 70 CE; for gentiles & Romans
- Mark
- son of Myrrha; Venus falls in love with; killed by boar; venus turns his bllod into a flower
- Adonis
- aristotle; A cannot be be true and false;
- Law of Non-Contradiction
- author of "history of the peloponnesian war"
- Thucydides
- y
- Hellenic
- real church father; reads silently; closer to God because doesn't translate linguistic signs into verbal signs
- St. Ambrose
- 5th century
- Classical Greece
- christians have to be hermeneuticians, always interpretting their world
- Hermeneutics
- inherited kingship
- Basileus
- y
- Euripidies
- ideal state, allegory of the cave
- The Republic
- wine, inebriation, (sexual) excess
- Dionysus
- Pentateuch, Historical, Poetical/Wisdom, Prophetical
- Christian Bible Divisions
- ideal version of something
- Form
- y
- Juno
- Athenian public service, buffoon, has wool conversation with Lysistrata
- Commissioner of Public Safety
- homecoming; first sentence of the Odyssey tells the plot
- Nostos
- y
- Aeschylus
- y
- Eurycleia
- highest roman virtue; self-control and dignity; aeneas; seriousness
- Gravitas
- infer conclusion from two premises; all humans are mortal, socrates is human, therefore socrates is mortal; superceeded only in 20th century by Bertrand Russell
- Syllogism
- y
- Telemachus
- y
- Aristophanes
- everyday object compared to Form
- articulation
- recognition
- anagnorisis
- y
- Satyr
- starts talking about love, end talking about writing
- The Phaedrus
- speeches about love
- The Symposium
- older lover in greek homosexuality; mentors eromenoss
- erastis
- seduced by Jove; turned to Heifer; when she see's father, spells her name in the sand
- Io
- love signs for their own sakes
- Cupititas
- literature must surpress opposite, so deconstruction focuses on opposite term
- Deconstruction
- Augustine from On Christian Doctrine; language; contrast with natural signs
- Conventional Signs
- first five books of bible; hebrew name for Pentateuch
- Torah
- strong woman in Lysistrata, wife of Kinesias
- Myrrhine
- y
- Polis
- function explains being
- teleology
- aristotle's metaphysics; planets rotate around earth in concentric spheres
- Nested Spheres
- y
- Agememmnon
- stays with for 7 years, offers immortality, live to phaeacians
- Calypso
- the grey-eyed goddess
- Athena
- world of temporality; augustine and mother transcend it at Ostia
- totum simul
- y
- Oral Formulaic Composition
- y
- Nausicaa
- y
- Amphinomus
- Jove appears as bull; she gets onto him; Jove carries her accross the water to Crete, where she becomes queen
- Europa
- great lack, shortcoming; oedipusdoesn't know who he is
- hamartia
- y
- Artemis
- father to Ascanius & to Italy
- Pater Aeneas
- ca. 90-100 CE; theological, Jesus as teacher
- John
- y
- Jove
- loves signs for signs sake (says augustine)
- Rhetoric
- prophesied not to marry; footrace against suitors; beaten by Hippomenes
- Atalanta
- y
- suffering servant
- y
- Achilles
- death by hemlock
- Phaedo
- reincarnation; e.g. virgil's underworld
- Metempsychosis
- A must be either true or false
- Law of the Excluded Middle
- y
- Sodom
- y
- Eurymachus
- given order of events
- Narrative
- y
- Phaiakians
- sun, light, order, moderation, rationality, olympian gods
- Apollo