CLST 026 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dionysia, Attic Orators, Archon

• School: UPenn
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 026
• Professor: Jeremy Mc Inerney

Document Summary

Environmental determinism: environment sets the condition of the culture: metageography: human response to geography, oikos: household. Agoge: training by age groups of the spartans. Ekphrasis: what homeric poetry employs to describe objects. Tisis: retribution: hubris: arrogance, demos: common people of an ancient greek state, hetairai: courtesans - education, sophisticated female companions, hektemeroi: share croppers who owed one sixth to the wealthy, delian league: Agon: contest, zero-sum game of glory and war. Phylai: tribes that archaic communities were divided into. Kourus: free-standing greek sculpture of male nude youths. Erastes: lover (older man in the relationship), doer. Eromenos: the beloved, the one who is loved, receiver. At : folly or action committed out of hubris. Eleutheria: liberty (major feature of greek political discourse after persian wars) Basileus: chief of the household: domus: talking about home and people inhabiting it, hittites: anatolian society during, helots: the captured ones (greek slaves in sparta, demosioi: public slaves owned by the state (clerks, secretaries)