Ancient Greco Roman Lit

For midterm

Critical Realism

Knowing the object as something other than the knower (realism). We can know stuff even if our knowledge is provisional and partial (critical).

Modernity

Transparent Window - Certainty

Postmodernity

Mirror (truth is accidental) - Ambiguity

Critical Realism

Tinted Glass - Imperfect Knowing

Chronological Snobbery

We are better because we came after

God entered history by

incarnating Himself

Literature

written words that have meaning

Authors intend

but sometimes there is more

we cant get inside the head of an author but we can partially and provisionally

Texts signify

but sometimes language is flexible

words can’t be separated from the real world that they were written in

Readers understand

But readers can go too far

without something other in the words then you are just looking in a mirror and there is no need to read or write anything

Hermeneutic of Love

readers don’t change the beloved. We are changed by the beloved.

Trojan War

Circa 1299 BCE-1100 HOMER

Persian War

490-480 BCE HERODOTUS

leads to a very patriotic Greece

Bib chars Darius and Xerxes

Peloponnesian War

460-446 , 431-404, 396-387 BCE Thucydides

very long and complex

Greece is weakened allowing Macedon to conquer

Alexander the Great

21st July 356 BCE- 10 or 11 june 323 BCE PLUTARCH

Hellenized the world

Koine Greek

Diadochi Wars

323-281 BCE PLUTARCH

Destablized the region

Judah was in dispute constantly

Rome conquers Greece

LIVY

Greeks couldn’t keep the peace

Rome freed them several times before becoming a province

Greek Mythology

Homer

Hesiod

Greek Philosophy

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Greek Drama

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripides

Aristophanes

Greek Science

Herodotus

Aristotle

Pythagoras

Euclid

Archimedes

Plato

Chariot, Cave, Telos

Holds divine inspiration for poets. Reason is superior. Kicks the poets out of his republic

Aristotle

Poetry (drama) is necessary to teach deeper truth. Logic is superior.

Oedipus

Fate and free will

Scapegoating

Purity and pollution

Tragic Flaw and blaming the victim

Romulus and Remus

LIVY

Devine origin of Rome

The rape of Lucretia

LIVY

Roman Honor

Casting off Kings forever

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

LIVY

The model Roman citizen

First Sac of Rome

TACITUS

Rome pays attention to world affairs

Rome emphasized treaty-making and keeping peace

Pyrrhic War

PLUTARCH

Roman hegemony in Italy

First encounter with Greek world

Rhegium

Rome is willing to punish their own when they do wrong

Used as a taunt for centuries by the Greeks

Three Punic Wars

LIVY

Rome defeats Carthage

Hegemony in the Western Mediterranean

Saguntum

LIVY

Rome was too slow and got faster after this

Locri

LIVY

Even traitors trusted Rome to do the right thing

Rome Conquers Greece

LIVY

Free Greek Cities and keep peace

Pax Romana

Sets the precedent for establishing a province in Palestine

Julius Caesar

SUETONIUS

All over the place

Considered himself first citizen

declared dictator for life

civil war resulted in Octavian declaring himself emperor

Religion of the Romans

Pantheon

State Cults

Emperor Worship

Rome Poetry

Virgil

Ovid

Lucan

Rome Prose

Cato the Elder

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Younger

Rome Philosophy

Marcus Aurelius

Seneca

Rome History

Sallust

Livy

Tacitus

Suetonius