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| a large vessel/mask (worn by Dionysus) |
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| coming about out of the Earth itself (Ex: Erichthonesus- the ancestral king of Athens who was born of the Earth) |
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| contain enormous amount of time with relatively little detail |
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| "man is the measure of all things" |
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| just pure rage and energy aka Brady Lonergan |
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| appearances that don't actually share in true reality |
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| one of the seven hills of Rome, where emperor Augustus lived and where his library was located |
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| giving human characteristics to non-human things (ex: Gaia as the Earth... really developed more in Ovid) |
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| incorporated into an action or narrative (Envy-bk 12, Hunger- bk 8, sleep bk 11, rumor bk 12) |
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| a narrative that occurs over a certain span of time |
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| "envy" in latin literally means to look at something but to look at it ascance |
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| "duty" we get the word piety from it |
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| both a literal and a figurative use of a word "to see/ crime" |
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| rumor- cognate w/ speaking, our word fame comes from it |
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| mythological stories are magnified over time (tall tale) like the result of the bronze walls of the house of Rumor which reverberate |
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| deification of a mortal into a god (ex: Hercules) |
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| comes from the story and history of the roman republic |
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| treasure house- specifically a treasure of grain (silo) |
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| initiation cults you had to be initiated in a certain ritual ceremony (cult of Demeter-Eleusian) |
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| initiating secret (ex" blade of cut wheat for the cult of Demeter at Eleusis) |
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| developed by carl g Jung- an expressed though- archaic remnants, often in the form of fantasies or myths that are inherited shapes of the human mind, a collective unconscious or universal instinct (ex: mother/daughter archetype exhibited by Demeter and Persephone) |
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| relation to something prior to self |
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| polygamy, hetaira-concubine |
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| ecstasy extreme happiness/ wild pleasure/ bliss/ heightened state of self/ Greek to be beside yourself or to step outside yourself in doing so- you can create an empty vessel that Dionysis can come fill (possession associated with god of wine) |
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| to allow the god to enter inside of you; to take the god within (in this case Dionysus) |
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| two handled jar of wine (dionysus wedding gift to peleus and thetis also the urn in which the ashes of patroclus and achilles were placed) |
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| brotherly love (family love- the normal kind) |
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| land of grazing herds of cows- one of the few places in greece with fertile open pastures- established by Cadmus when he was searching for Europa (overrating kinship- Levin Strauss)- goes to Oracle at delphi, says "follow first cow you see and where it lies down settle Thebes") he does this, comes to contact with a dragon, neutralized it and sows its teeth to make the Spartoi (sown men- Lycus was a descendent-usurper in Euripdes' Heracles) who fought each other, five survived and became the other noble houses of Thebes (other notable members: Ino, Autonoe, Semele, Agave, Pentheus, and Heracles) |
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| mycenaean civilization (ruled Greek mainland islands from 1500-1200 BC- Greek Bronze Age)-- clay tablets concerning palace inventory were found, gave proof of early existence of dionysus- comes from the minoan linear A which has yet to be translated |
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| not someone who inherits power, gains power through seizure of power by way of skill (ironic ex: Oedipus tyrannos)- tyrants promoted the cult of dionysus because it appealed to the masses/ also why the aristocracy doesn't like dionysus |
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| oedipus, see levi-strauss |
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| forms/ an image that is seen |
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| craftsman and creating the world |
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| god but also a raw undivided mass- the universe before the world was shaped |
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| looking askance at something (what envy does in story of Aflaurus and Herse and mercury) |
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| gravitate (exalted gravity/awe) |
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