CLAS201 Midterm: Test 1 Review.pdf

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS201
• Professor: Nicholas Maes

Document Summary

The greek miracle (textual sources for the ancient greeks) Mycenaeans (culture, homer, epic cycle, homer as source for mycenaean culture) Homer: iliad, odyssey; hesiod: theogony, works and days. Crete, arthur evans, king minos, minoan, knossos, thalassocracy, palaces (labyrinth), frescoes (peaceful scenes), bull motif, chthonic (earth), mother goddess, fertility, afterlife, male subordinate, linear a, syllabary. William jones, zeus (dios), jupiter (diespiter), dyaus pitar, linguistic, warriors/nomads/hunters, olympian, sky god, immortal versus mortal, helladic branch (2000 bce) First greeks, heinrich schliemann, citadels, mycenae, tiryns, argos, pylos, Cyclopean architecture, war-themed art, linear b, michael ventris, troy, Cypria, iliad, aethiopis, little iliad, persis iliou, nostoi, odyssey. Cypria: prometheus, zeus, thetis, peleus, eris, athena, hera, aphrodite, Judgement of paris, priam (king of troy), helen, menelaus, agamemnon (brother), Priam (king of troy), xenia (hospitality), zeus xenios, zeus hikesios, zeus. Iliad: agamemnon, achilles, briseis, chryseis, chryses, hector (son of priam), Patroclus, priam, homeric values, kleos, aristos, kakos, time.