Myth

Eikos

Probability, especially in the context of Kreon wanting to eliminate Oeddie’s power.

Horao

To see; in the past tense, it means to know.

Creon

King who bans the burial of Polynices.

Miasma

Divine punishment; a generational curse or moral stain that must be purged.

Jocasta

Oedipus’ mother and wife.

Epikaste

Another name for Jocasta in the Odyssey.

Exoleia

Complete destruction of Jason’s family, as wished by Medea.

Lacuna/ellipsis

A gap in one's explanatory power.

Aegeus

King of Athens and father of Theseus.

Ariadne

Aids Theseus but is abandoned on the island of Naxos.

Scholiast

Someone who adds footnotes to Greek poetry.

Basanos

A touchstone used to identify real gold or silver, exemplified by Odysseus’ scar.

Moral Relativism

The viewpoint that one shouldn't be too exacting in moral conduct; morality cannot be universally defined.

Serva Callida

Clever slave.

MISO GYNEN

I hate women.

Aristophanes’ Frogs

A comedic katabasis intended to bring back a fellow playwright.

Metatheater

Theatre that reflects on itself.

Princeps inter pares

First among equals.

Dictator per perpetuum

Dictator for life.

146 BCE

The year Carthage was destroyed and salted, marking the defeat of Corinth.

31 BCE

The year of the Battle of Actium, after which Augustus received his name and title.

Mantua

Birthplace of Virgil.

Ab Urbe Condita

Condition for the building of the city.

Modello Codice

The poetry that transitioned from Greece to Rome.

Modello Locale

Everything added by Virgil to the poetry tradition.

Arma virumque cano

I sing of arms and the man.

Andra moi ennepe, Musa

Opening line of the Odyssey, meaning 'sing to me the man, Muse'.

In media res

In the middle of, describing how Greek plays often begin.

First 6 books of the Aeneid

Represent the Odyssean half.

Second 6 books of the Aeneid

Represent the Iliadic half.

Iliou Persis

The Fall of Troy.

Equo ne credite

Don't trust the horse.

Sinon

Aeneas’s ally who persuades the Trojans to accept the wooden horse.

Tenedos

Island where the Greeks hid.

Laocoon

He mistrusted the horse and was killed as a result.

Dux Femina Facti

Woman was the leader of the action.

Deiphobus

Aeneas’s brother whose house was burned down by Odysseus.

Neoptolemus/Phyrrus

Son of Achilles who kills Priam and his son.

Creusa

Aeneas’ forgotten wife.

Fama

Rumor personified.

Coniugum vocat, hoc pretexit nomine culpam

She calls it all marriage, concealing her guilt under its name.