Humanities-The Humanistic Tradition 2
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- A Literary device in which objects, persons, or actions are equated with secondary, figurative manings that underlie their literal meaning
- Allegory
- A two handled vessel used for oil or wine
- amphora
- the character that directly opposes the protagonist in drama or fiction
- antagonist
- a list of people, things or attributes, characteristic of biblical and homeric literature
- catalog
- a government in which supreme power is vested in the people
- Democracy
- a quesition and answer style of inquiry made famous by Socrates
- dialectical method
- a method of inquiry dependent on direct experience or observation
- empirical method
- a characterizing word or phrase; in Homeric verse, a compound adjuective used to identify a person or a thing
- epithet
- That branch of philosophy that sets forth the principles of human conduct.
- ethics
- excessive pride
- hubris
- the theory that holds that things in the material world are manifestations of an independent realm of unchanging, immaterial ideas of forms
- Idealism (platonic)
- a government in which power lies in the hands of an elite minority
- oligarchy
- the leading character in a play or a story
- Protagonist
- a deductive scheme of formal argument, consisting of two premises from which a conclusion may be drawn
- syllogism
- Goddess of love, beauty procreation
- Aphrodite
- God of solar light, medicine music
- Apollo
- God of wine vegetation
- Dionysus
- God of underworld
- Hades
- God of Strength courage
- Heracles
- Male messenger of the gods
- Hermes
- Goddess of underworld
- Persephone
- God of the Sea
- Poseidon
- King of the gods, sky
- Zeus
- Leading proponent of Athenian democracy
- Pericles
- Father of History
- Herodotus
- Character "Flaw" that would cause the tragic end of an older wise moble hero
- hamartia
- the technical term used by Aristotle to describe the emothinal effect of a tragic drama on the spectator
- catharsis
- Pillars of the Heroic code
- Beauty, strength and intelligence