HONR 101 - Final Prep: Characters w/o titles

Allah

God; omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, merciful

Muhammad

the Prophet; recites passages of the Qur’an, must be in his presence to hear it

Gabriel

angel who delivers God’s communications to creations

Angels

made of light, in the realm of the unseen, can question God but cannot disobey, pure rationality

Jinns

created from fire, in the realm of the unseen, can disobey God; pure emotion

Humans

made of clay and water, in the realm of the seen, free will (can simultaneously obey and disobey God), cognition (have morals, rationality, and emotion), most superior of God’s creations (even above angels)

Iblis

a jinn, the one who told Adam and Eve to eat from the tree, refused to prostrate to Adam, banished to hell, wanted to take the humans down with him

Krishna

God, Brahman, the universal eternal principle of all things, incarnation of Vishnu

Arjuna

a warrior on a battlefield, torn about the idea of killing his own family, comes to understand and see Krishna’s true identity

Euthyphro (Euthyphro)

a professional priest who considers himself an expert on ritual and on piety in general, prosecutes his own father

Socrates (Euthyphro)

a philosophical thinker, being prosecuted by Meletus

Meletus (Euthyphro)

(mentioned) an Athenian citizen who calls Socrates to trial

Socrates (Apology)

a philosophical thinker who makes his defense in trial against the allegations of corrupting the youth and bringing outside Gods to Athens

Meletus (Apology)

main prosecutor, seeks the death penalty against Socrates

Aristophanes

wrote a play called ‘The Clouds’ that depicted Socrates to be a performer of natural science and an unjust teacher of rhetoric

Plato (Apology)

student of Socrates, present at the trial, author of Euthyphro & Apology

Chirophon

(mentioned) asked the Oracle at Delphi if there was anyone wiser than Socrates

Oracle at Delphi

(mentioned) told Socrates no one was wiser than him

Achilles

referenced as similar to Odysseus, died for friendship & glory, contrasted against Socrates who dies in his pursuit of truth

the 10 Generals

(mentioned) unjustly tried together for not bringing bodies of dead warriors back home

Leon of Salamis

(mentioned) Socrates was called to serve him a warrant for trial so the Spartan oligarchy could seize his property; Socrates refused

Shulamite

the young woman

Daughters of Jerusalem

the chorus

the young man

Shulamite’s lover

Shulamite’s brothers

the young woman’s brothers

the night watchmen

guards who patrol the city at night, they catch Shulamite when she leaves to find her lover and beat her

Thecla

a woman who abandons her engagement to follow Paul, an apostle of Christ

Paul

fictional version of apostle Paul

Theocleia

Thecla’s mother; when Thecla won’t stop her obsession with Paul, she calls for Thecla to be burned at the stake

Thamyris

Thecla’s fiance, outraged that Thecla cannot bring her attention away from Paul

Alexander

a man who took a liking to Thecla; when she refused his affection he was embarrassed and brought her to the governor where she was eventually sentenced to death via wild beasts

Queen Tryphanea

from Antioch, sees Thecla as a daughter after the passing of her own daughter, Falconilla

Perpetua

a Christian martyr, killed because she wouldn’t renounce her faith

Felicitas

enslaved, Christian martyr, killed for her faith as well

Prophet Muhammad

author of Qur’an

Vyasa

author of Bhagavad Gita

Plato

author of Euthyphro & Apology