greek midterm 2 mcq

hellenistic period

323-31 BCE

theocritus, callimachus, apollonius

genres: epic (didactic), tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy

imperial period

galen & plutarch

rhetoric

attic & asiatic

telos

epyllion

mini-epic

has to do with gods & myths

example is argonautica

platonic forms

spurious works

plato’s allegory of the cave

eudaemonia

a famous theory of aristotle

means happiness / virtue

• how we should aim for these / the human mind yearns for these the most

socrates

amechanos

jason is often described as this word bc he is shy, meek, etc

means “incompetence” or “inability"“

suda

augury

type of roman omen

• studying birds (flight path, calls, feeding habits, etc)

pharmakon

greek word for drug

epistemology

the study of how you know what you know

sophists

callimachus, apollonius, theocritus

alexandrian poets

ptolemy II philadelphus

library of alexandria / museum

lover & beloved

the final stage of the progression of love

• says the older male gives wisdom, knowledge, ideas to the younger “beloved” student, who gives sex in return

• shows the immortality of your ieas and knowledge

citizens, administrator, ruler

bucolic poetry

poetry that has to do with shepherds, pastures, animals, etc

examples: theocritus’ idyll 1 & 11

passion/desires, spirit, rationality