World Lit Midterm
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- até
- unreasonably strong anger
- aiké
- equitable, reasonable, just, right distribution of power
- timé
- honor; formal recognition of another's worth or merit and public acknowledgement of respect and insufficiency
- thumos
- male high-spiritedness (important quality for leaders, but too much makes problems -> hubris)
- hubris
- thinking there are no limits on what one can do
- logoin/ logos
- reasons for punishment given by priest
- diké
- justice
- areté
- excellence
- eudaimonia
- life of flourish, happiness
- philos/ philoi/ philotés
- friend
- philein/ philia
- love
- phrén
- mind, sense
- phronein
- prudence
- sophron
- sound in mind, self-controlled
- kleos
- winning glory
- ontological
- onto= being logical= logos
- pneuma
- spirit
- deuteo
- 2nd
- leviticus
- 1st
- deuteronomic
- 2nd law
- 2 Samuel date
- 600 BC- during time of King Josiah
- ilu/ elihom
- relation to gods
- El/ YaHWeh
- GOD
- hineni
- Here I am, behold me (response to God)
- ephod
- ritual garment worn by priest
- sedentary king
- sits on throne while others fight and do the work
- parable
- illustrates moral truth through fiction or non-fiction
- Positive Law
- Events that follow are punishment by God
- Natural Law
- Events that follow are natural moral punishment -> You reap what you sow
- herem
- everyone and everything of a defeated people must be destroyed/ religiously ordained extermination
- ruah
- 1. great wind 2. great/divine spirit
- mefesh
- appetite, soul
- Ecclesiastes genre
- Wisdom genre of literature (most written by Solomon)
- Wisdom (in ancient context)
- technological knowledge of spiritual things
- phronesis/ phron
- moderation
- Major Prophets
- 1. Elijah 2. Isaiah 3. Micah 4. Jeremiah 5. Ezekiel
- Elijah
- 850 in Northern Kingdom (Israel)
- Isaiah
- 742-700 in Southern Kingdom (Judea)
- Micah
- Contemporary of Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- 626-587 BC
- Ezekiel
- 593-563 (first part of Ezekiel written)
- Zoroastrianism
- Persian religion; first monotheistic religion that we know of
- varna
- people groups
- varna (4)
- 1. brahman 2. kshatriya 3. vaishya 4. shudra
- brahman
- white -> priestly class
- kshatriya
- red -> warrior class
- vaishya
- brown -> peasant class
- shudra
- black -> slave class
- rita
- order/ cosmos
- dharma
- good, ethics
- ksatriyadharma
- way/conduct of the warrior
- sadharanaydharma
- general ethical rules for everyone (presents conflict between classes)
- moksha
- emotional release
- ahimsa
- non-violence
- Kirshna
- black
- ethos
- selfless love for another
- moska
- total surrender; brahma and atman are made one
- brahma
- one
- atman
- soul
- Rome founded
- 760-750 BC
- Stoic thought/ Stoicism
- One should distance oneself from emotions, which leads to poor judgement, and commit oneself to logic and reason
- Roman internal wars
- 1st century BC
- Virgil born
- 70 BC (in the middle of the internal wars)
- pietas/piety
- reverence for god, family
- superbos/superbium
- pride (in a negative sense)
- condit
- to found a city, to bury a sword or spear
- Oldest copy of Gilgamesh poem
- 2000 BC
- Abraham and Sarah
- 1800-1700 BC
- Isaac, Jacob, Joseph
- 1700-1600 BC
- Moses and the Exodus
- 1600-1300 BC
- Judges, Joshua, Deborah
- 1200-1100 BC
- Kingship: Samuel, Saul
- 1100-1000 BC
- King David: United Kingdom
- 1000-961 BC
- Reign of King Solomon
- 961-922 BC
- Northern Monarchy of Israel/ Prophet Elijah
- 922-722 BC
- Southern Monarchy of Judah/ Prophet Isaiah
- 922-587 BC
- Rediscovery of Deuteronomic History
- 622 BC
- Assyrian Occupation of Northern Kingdom/ Prophet Jeremiah
- 700-600 BC
- Babylonian Conquest and Exile/ Prophet Ezekiel
- 600-525 BC
- Fall of Jerusalem and destruction of temple
- 587 BC
- Persian conquest of Babylon, Return from exile, temple rebuilt
- 525-336 BC
- Greek conquest, Alexander the Great
- 336-323 BC
- Hellenism
- 323-100 BC
- Maccabean Period
- 168-63 BC
- Destruction of the Second Temple and Roman occupation
- 70 CE
- Pre-Exilic
- Before 587 BC
- Post-Exilic
- After 587 BC
- Indus Culture
- 2500-1600 BC
- Aryan Conquest
- 1500-1000 BC
- Trojan War
- 1200 BC
- Earliest narrative frameworks of The Mahabharata
- 1500-1000 BC
- North Indian conquest and unification
- 1000-450 BC
- Rig Vedic literature/ Brahman-Kshatriya hegemony
- 1000 BC
- David's Reign
- 1000 BC
- Upanishad, religious-political revolt against Brahmanism
- 800-700 BC
- Iliad Written
- 750 BC
- Advent of Buddhism, mendicant Hinduism, Jainism
- 600-400 BC
- development of The Mahabharata
- 900-300 BC
- Alexander the Great's invasion
- 326 BC
- Mauryan Empire
- 326-184 BC
- Age of Ashoka
- 269-232 BC
- Incorporation of Krishna into The Mahabharata, The Bhagavad Gita
- 200 BC
- The First Gupta Age
- 184 BC-320 AD
- Completion and stabilization of the Mahabharata text
- 300 AD
- The Classical Age/ Second Gupta Period
- 320-700 AD
- Rome falls
- 476 AD
- Octavius Caesar lives
- 43 BC
- Augustus Caesar orders the Aeneid to be written
- 29-19 BC
- "Deathless Aphrodite of the Spangled Mind"
- Sappho, 600 BC
- The Iliad (u)
- Homer, 750 BC
- King James Bible (u)
- 1.2 Samuel 2.1 Kings 3.Ecclesiastes 4.Lamentations 5.Ezekiel 6.Isaiah 7.Micah
- The Aeneid (author)
- Virgil
- Homer (The Iliad)
- 12 or more syllable line
- Virgil (The Aeneid)
- 10 syllable line
- Romans Dates
- 54-58 AD
- Petrine
- Believed Christianity was like Judaism
- Johannine (4)
- -Jesus pre-existed before beginning of world -Jesus is light in darkness -love=agape -fulfillment of commandment, not just knowledge
- Pauline
- Included the non-Hebrews
- Romans author
- Paul
- nous
- (logos) understanding, knowledge
- eauto
- draw out of self the law
- gnosis
- -predominant in Johnannine text -knowing
- agape
- selfless love
- Confessions author
- Augustine
- Augustine
- 354-430 AD
- Patristic literature
- Type of literature that Augustine wrote
- Year Augustine officially converted
- 387 AD
- Confessions Date
- 397 AD
- Hominus
- human
- saity
- having nothing more to desire, having everything in your reach= the divine
- theo
- God
- logy
- (logos) reason
- Theology
- -reason about God -putting the claims of faith in a coherent, logical form -render belief rational
- psyche
- soul
- anima
- soul
- egological psychology
- psychology organized around self
- "original sin"
- human is subject to sin from the beginning; born with a sinful nature
- cupiditas/concupiocere
- to be filled with carnal desires
- idolatry
- to desire secondary goods over primary goods
- caritas
- selfless love
- cupiditas
- selfish love
- continence
- a female soliciting another female
- Dante\'s verse form
- Terzarime ababcbcdc -Structure reflects trinity (organized around 3\'s)
- liberty
- the ability to live under one\'s self
- Setting for commedia, Purgatorio
- Easter weekend in year 300 (Written between 1304 and 1321)
- Purgatorio author
- Dante
- Purgatorio date
- 1310 AD
- Renaissance
- Discovery of the Greek language and text 1330-1600
- Printing Press
- Came to West in 1453 AD
- Praise of Folly author
- Erasmus
- Praise of Folly date
- 1509 AD
- Protestant Reformation
- 1517 AD
- Thomism
- Limiting power of God by forcing him to fit into Aristotelian thought
- dole stil nuovo
- A new type of literature that writes about the kind of love that lifts one up to spiritual things
- dialects
- reasoning well
- Augustine=
- =Pauline
- Thomas Aquinas brought together
- the works of Augustine and Aristotle
- Dante brought together
- the works of God, Aquinas, Augustine, and Aristotle
- Dante
- 1265-1321 AD
- pietas
- pride for one's groups; reverence for god or family
- contrapasso
- a counter blow
- natural philosophy
- imagination or fantasy is our ability to construct mental images
- noncuporial
- strictly spiritual
- Natural love
- Love from God
- Mental love
- Chosen human love
- vir
- man
- vires
- armies
- virtu
- power
- teleology
- science/philosophy of ends (purpose, goal)
- tele
- spear
- ology
- (logos) reason
- intellecto
- noncuporial mental understanding
- entelechy
- everything has a form or direction that it moves towards
- Paradiso
- Earthly paradise in Purgatorio
- Nominalists
- Take created world, suspend assumptions, and infer from world the principles that make it work -Lead to modern science
- Lucian
- Wrote Praise of Lying before Erasmus wrote Praise of Folly
- aphron
- fool
- Erasmus\' first great work
- \"Handbook of Christian Warrior\" 1503
- Erasmus
- 1466 or 69-1528 AD
- Destabilization of Interpretation
- Demands that reader think for himself
- Polemic
- make war with words
- Demigod
- Someone who appeals to people by speaking in a way that appeals to their most primal fears and gets them worked up
- Hamlet author
- Shakespeare
- Bubonic Plague
- 1593-1594 AD (Theaters were closed)
- Julius Caesar
- 1599 AD
- Shakespeare goes to England as actor
- late 1580\'s AD
- Shakespeare
- 1564-1616
- Hamlet
- 1599-1601
- dogmatism
- using philosophy to explain away anything that doesn\'t fit into your world view
- intersubjective verification
- Ex. In Hamlet, they all see the ghost, so it must be real
- Eastern Roman Empire falls
- 1453 AD (Turks overran it)
- Muhammad
- 570-632 BC
- Muhammad\'s sublime visions began
- 610 BC
- Quran/Koran
- Poetry came to Muhammad from archangel Gabriel from God
- Muhammad\'s revelations
- 610-632 BC
- 632 BC
- Muhammad had a significant army, they took over Mecca, then he died
- Iconoclastic ethics
- doing away with idols
- Jahiliyya
- Pre-Islamic civilization/ A time of bloodlust, moral and intellectual chaos
- Islam
- Surrender, submission
- dar al-harb
- realm of warfare
- shirk
- freedom/ a stubborn uncontrollable self-will
- fitna
- -rebellion of man against God -connotation of seductive woman
- dar al-Islam
- realm of Islam
- ilm
- wisdom or knowledge
- umma
- community where souls are regulated by the will to submit to God
- rhama
- love, charity/ mercy, compassion (like caritas & agape)
- hidif
- -narrative story of Prophet -written to be memorized
- egoism
- human tendency to diefy oneself
- radical demand of Islam
- Submit in a way that separates you from thumos
- Beatrice\'s Death
- 1290 AD
- ratio
- reason
- The Aeneid
- 29-19 BC