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 Work conquers all
 Motto of the state of Oklahoma
 The maze designed by
Daedalus for King
Minos at Knossos,
Crete.
 Any difficult path or
route
 Slip of the tongue
 Honours or a crown
 Rest on your laurels
 Teacher of Medicine
 Great spirited; showing a
great spirit; showing nobility
of feeling or generosity of
mind
 Great work
 Battle of 490
 Race of 26 miles, 385 yards
 Pheidippides
 My fault
 Wife of Jason
 Killed the children
 Rode off in a dragon chariot
 Friend of Odysseus put in
charge of Telemachos
 Wise and trusted
counselor and teacher
Bull of Minos
Son of Pasiphae
and the Cretan Bull
 Norms, habits, customs, traditions, and values of a
society
 O tempora, o mores
 Home of the gods
 Close to Delphi, home of the Python
 79 eruption buries Pompeii, Herculaneum and
Oplontis
 Note well
 Pay special attention
 Homeric Hero
from Ithaca
 Ulysses
 Written by Homer
 Odysseus’s 10 year travel
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home from Troy
Calypso
Circe
Sirens
Polyphemus
Telemachus
Penelope
Suitors
Eumaeus
Argus
 All-knowing
 Eurydice is bitten and dies
 Orpheus fetches her, but looks back
 Written after – something added to a letter after it’s
written
 Half goat-half man,
protector of
shepherds from
Arkadia
 The first woman, made from
gifts of all the gods – hence
the name: weaving and
clothes from Athena, looks
from Aphrodite et cetera
 She opened the box she was
told not to open and all the
evils of the world flew out,
leaving only hope behind in
the box.
 All the gods
 Temple to all the gods
originally built by
Agrippa in Campus
Martius, but it sank
in the swamp
 Hadrian’s Pumpkin
 Egyptian reed used to
make the first paper,
ultimately the rood word
for paper
 Trojan shepherd who chooses Aphrodite as the fairest
– he turns out to be a prince who was exposed on Mt
Ida because he was foretold to be the ruin of Troy.
Athenian Temple dedicated to Athena Parthenos, the
maiden.
 Father of the family (n.b. the archaic genitive ‘as’)
 Complete control over all members of the household
 The upper class Roman
citizenry, name derives
from pater, patris –
father.
 Still used to signify posh
nobs
 27-180 AD
 The period of Roman peace from Augustus to
Commodus. Rome constantly expands and brings
peace to the Mediterranean.
 Peace be with you
 Winged horse born of Poseidon and Medusa
(sometime from her head after Perseus cut it off)
 Bellerophon’s steed
 Wife of
Odysseus,
mother of
Telemachus
 Wove funeral
shroud of
Laertes by
day and
unwound it
by night to
fend of the
suitors
 By the year
 By head, for each head
 For each day, by the day
 By mouth
 Daughter of Ceres and
wife of Hades
 Legendary hero, founder of Persians, born of Danaë
kills the Gorgon
 An unwanted person,
particularly in a diplomatic
or legal context.
 An ostracized meanie-head
no one wants around
 That guy…
 Teacher of philosophy
 Highest academic degree
 Common people in
ancient Rome
 Still used pejoratively
for lower classes or
anything common or
vulgar
‘redneck’ horseshoes
competitor
 After mid-day, afternoon
 Belief in many gods
 Roman costal town destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius
in 79 AD
 Archaeological treasure trove of Roman daily life
 Head of Roman religion, yesterday and today
 Brother of Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Demeter and Hades
 Dominion over the seas, horses
 ‘After death’
 A medical exam
shortly following
death
 The last King of Troy
 Father of Hector and Paris, husband to Hecuba
 Famously kisses hands of Achilles for Hector’s body
 For the time being, an impermanent solution or place
holder: locum tenens
 Usually used in politics
 Titan who molded men out of clay
 He liked his work, stole fire from the immortals and
tricked them by making them like bones rather than
meat.
 Punishment: eagles eat the liver…q.d.
 Juvenile, childish or silly; boylike
 Set of three wars Rome fights vs Carthage
 1st Punic War – 264-41. Regulus
 2nd Punic War – 218-02. Hannibal and Scipio
 3rd Punic War – 149-46. Cato and Tiberius Gracchus
 ‘Strange bird,’ an
odd duck, a
weirdo, someone
special,
something
unique
 21 April 753 BCE (trad. founding date of Rome)
 Children of Rhea Silvia and Mars
 Settled in Alba Longa
 Romulus founded Rome
 Neuter, plural. Prows of ships at the foot of the
speaker’s platform in the Forum.