CLA219H1 Final: All Terms and Proper Names for the Final
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For his slanderous poem he loses his eyesight (courtesy of her brothers: he then recants a song saying she is not to be blamed, this is part of a tradition to take the blame away from helen. Potiphar"s wife motif: exemplified in hippolytus by euripides, in revenge for hippolytus failure to worship her, aphrodite makes his stepmother fall in love with him. Second sophistic: an intellectual movement, when greece was not a political power anymore and under the dominion of the romans the. Sworn by modern doctors to adhere to certain principles: widely believed to have been either written by hippocrates, the father of western medicine, or one of his students. Something that is propagated right into the 19th century hysteria them. She gets visions or feelings that compel her to seek death: virgins are exceptionally hysterical, virgins should cohabit as soon as possible with a man. Sterile married women li kely to suffer from hysteria.
