Test 1 Prep

1. Stycomythia: A rapid succession of one liners (conversation)
ex) lines 441-581 in "Antigone"

2. Hubris: Excessive pride or arrogance

3. Eleusinian Mysteries
a. done: a reinactment of the abduction of Persephone
b. seen: a stalk of corn or wheat
c. said: "rain concieve"

4. 5 conflicts of Steiner
1. men vs women
2. youth vs aged
3. living vs dead
4. individual vs society/state
5. gods vs men

5. Epithet: a handle
ex) trim ankled Persephony

6. Sparagmos: the tearing or rinding of live flesh

7. Anthropocentric view: humans, rather than gods, at the center of the universe

8. Miasma: "the polution," kind of implied curse that falls over a land that has not treated the dead properly

9. Antigone's view of politics: she is not really interested in politics, but believes in devine law over a king's decree

10. Meaning of Creon's name: ruler

11. Notion of a moving target: characters change throughout the story as things change around them

12. Myth of eternal return: endless repettion of things (cyclical)
ex) Homeric Hymn of Demeter (seasons)
ex) "Ground Hog's Day"

13. Who is Hermes like? Stewie from family guy (trixter)

14. Thoreau said that we should read the eternities rather than the times.

15. Who is guilty of taking one who lives above and throwing them below?
1. Zeus (orchestrated Persephone's fall)
2. Creon ("Antigone")

16. Inillotempore: "in the great time"

17. Which two mythological figures are polytropic?
1. Hermes
2. Odysseus

18. 3 Great Tragedians
1. Sophocles
2. Euripedes
3. Easchylus

19. Who is the god of the crossroads? Hermes

20. Agon: conflict

21. "All that is past posseses the present."

22. 2 best thins that can happen to you according to the chorus of Oedipus.
1. never to have been born in the first place
2. to die

23. Sarvam dukam sarvam anityam: "everything is suffering everything is fleeting"

24. Anitgone's name means? "Anti-birth"

25. What injury did Oedipus sustain as an infant? Holes in the ankles

26. Hermes used these two words to prove his innocence: born yesterday

27. What did Robert Johnson do at the crossroads? Sell his soul to the devil to become an epic musician

28. According to Freud, why do we laugh? To keep from crying

29. What does it mean to make something anagogic? going into the hevenly realm

30. Synex: impotent old man