Dr. Perdigao
HUM 2051: Civilization I
Fall 2009
Midterm Review
Exam: Wednesday, October 7
Part I.
In this section, you will fill in the blanks with information regarding characters’ names, key
concepts, dates, and literary and historical terms. Consider the key concepts that have been
outlined in the readings and listed on the board—those will likely appear on the exam. A
comprehensive list is included below:
Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey—relationship(s) between epics, genres, comedy/tragedy
Six epic conventions
“Golden Age” of Greece retold by Homer centuries later during the Dark Ages (1240: 750-725 BCE)
Structure, key books
The shield of Achilles, example of ekphrasis
Parallels in The Iliad: Achilles: Hector
Parallels in The Odyssey: Odysseus: Agamemnon
Chaos: Order; Rage: Pity as major themes
Greek drama: from festival to performance, celebration of Dionysus
Resolution/Reconciliation as conclusion to comedy—komos (revel, banquet, marriage)
Homer
Thespis
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Sophists
Plato
Aristotle
Achilles
Thetis
Peleus
Hector
Andromache
Paris
Helen
Priam
Hecuba
Firebrand
Patroclus
Apple (“to the fairest”)
Hera, Athena, Aphrodite
Power, wisdom, beauty
Ithaca
Odysseus
Antinous
Eurymachus
Nestor
Pisistratus
Pylos
Sparta
Ogygia
Aeaea
Helios
Aeolus
Polyphemus
Proteus (Old Man of the Sea)
Circe
Calypso
Sirens
Lotus-eaters
Mentor
Tiresias
Laestrygoians
Antiphates
Menelaus
Telemachus (Telemakia)
Demodocus
Aphrodite and Ares
Nausicaa
Phaeacians
Alcinous
Arete
Broadsea
Elpenor
Ajax
Scylla
Charybdis
Ino
Eumaeus
Eurycleia
Anticleia
Laertes
Hermes
Penelope
Mycenae
Watchman
Agamemnon
Clytaemnestra
Cassandra
Aegisthus
Atreus
Thyestes
Iphigenia
Orestes (The Oresteia)
The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Lysistrata
Kalonike
Lampito
Myrrhine
Kinesias
Reconciliation
Deus ex machina
Eris
Agon
Hamartia
Hubris
Timé
Arêté
Kudos
Anagnorisis
Peripeteia
Drama: Comedy
Chorus (men, men and women)
Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (411 BCE)—historical context: Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE between
Athens and Sparta)
Thirty Tyrants
Philosophical tradition—Plato’s The Republic and its notions of the Sun, The Divided Line, and the
Allegory of the Cave
Method of Socrates, his “apology”—the contexts of his trial and defense—corrupting youth of
Athens; his execution by drinking hemlock (399 BCE)
Academy, Lyceum (Peripatetic school)
Aristotle’s Poetics: catharsis, pity and fear
Part II.
In brief responses, you will identify the significance of key quotes, stating why they are central to
the texts’ meanings.
Parallels/revisions of characters between the texts
Symbols within the text
Organization of plot /ordering of books
Favoritism: Jealousy; Captivity: Redemptive Rise; Rage: Pity; Chaos: Order
Patterns, structures—descent into the underworld
Role of women (from The Iliad: The Odyssey: Agamemnon: Lysistrata), power
Role of the chorus