Myth

Eikos - probability (Kreon doesnt want Oeddie’s power)

Horao - to see, in past tense to know

Creon - King, bans burying polynices

Miasma - Divine punishment (generational curse, moral stain that must be purged)

Jocasta - Oedipus’ mother/wife

Epikaste - Jocasta but in the Odyssey

Exoleia - Root and branch destruction of Jason’s family (medea’s wish)

Lacuna/ellipsis - limit to one’s explanatory power or a gap in such

Aegeus - King of Athens, Theseus’ Dad, (aegean sea)

Ariadne - aids theseus but is left abandoned on the island of Naxos

Scholiast - someone who added some footnotes to the poetry from greece

Basanos - Touchstone to identify if youre looking at real/fake gold/silver, (odysseus’ scar)

Moral Relativism - shouldnt be too exacting in the conduct of our lives. We cannot define whether or not something is moral as a blanket statement

Serva Callida - Clever Slave

MISO GYNEN - I hate woman

Aristophanes’ Frogs - His silly katabasis to bring back one of his fellow playwrights

Metatheater - theatre about theatre

Princeps inter pares - First among equals

Dictator per perpetuum - dictator for life

146 BCE - Carthage is razed and salted, defeat of Corinth

31 BCE - Battle of acteum, augustus is given his name and titled

Mantua - Virgil’s birthplace

Ab Urbe Condita - Condition for building the city

Modello Codice - the poetry that carried from greece to rome

Modello Locale - everything Virgil added to the poetry bank

Arma virumque cano - I sing of arms and the man

Andra moi ennepe,  Musa - Opening of the odyssey, “sing to me the man, Muse”

In media res - In the middle of (like how greek plays are often starting in media res)

First 6 books of the Aeneid - The odyssean half

Second 6 books - The Iliadic half

Iliou Persis - Fall of Troy 

Equo ne credite - Don’t trust the horse

Sinon - Aeneas’s sidekick, convinces trojans to take the horse

Tenedos - Island that the greeks hide in

Laocoon - Doesnt trust the horse, but is killed by it

Dux Femina Facti - Woman was the leader of the work

Deiphobus - Aeneus’ brother, house burns down by odysseus

Neoptolemus/Phyrrus - Son of Achiles, kills priam and his son

Creusa - Aeneas’ forgotten wife

Fama - Rumor personified

Coniugum vocat, hoc pretexit nomine culpam - She calls it all marriage, and under its name she concealed her guild