LIT 041 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Aeschylus, Tragedy, Socratic Method

• School: Hofstra University
• Department: Literature in Translation (LIT)
• Course: LIT 041
• Professor: Smith, Steven D.

Document Summary

Be sure to be able to discuss each of the following names/terms/phrases: Hesiod contemporary of homer; 8th century bce; author of theogony, works and days; Heliconian muses 9 muses invoked in all/most poems of any sort; divine inspiration; calliope (epic poetry), cleo (history), euterpe (music/song, lyric poetry), erato (love poetry), melpomene (tragedy), polyhymnia (hymns), terpsichore (dance), thalia (comedy), urania (astronomy) Gaea/gaia/earth primordial being; essentially mother earth nowadays; more violent; chthonic being; mother of titans and 100-handed ones. Uranus/ouranos/heaven husband of gaea; the heavens above; primordial. Kronos first gen titan; leader; father of zeus, husband of rhea; ate his children; tricked by. Rhea who hid zeus from him so he ate a rock instead; killed by zeus; killed own father ouranos. Rhea wife of kronos; mother of gods; Pandora first woman created by gods in punishment for prometheus" theft; opened jar and released evils into world; trapped hope within the jar;