VOCABULARY

SCREED: a lengthy discourse

STICHOMYTHIA: row of speech

AGON: a contest or battle between combantants or advisaries

DIALECTIC: conversations between peers

CHTHONIC: of or related to the underworld

POLYTROPOS: skilled in many things

ANAMNESIS: recollection

PHANOS: to show forth something higher

THEOPHANY: sharing forth of the divine

CLANIC: old, irrelevant and boring

EUREKA: 'I have found it!'

THEOGONY: leads to the emergence of Zeus

ETIOLOGY: the explanation of why we have something

NARCISSUS: the act of looking

NATIVITY: a way of making something important

NOSTIX: we fell to earth

DEJA VU: the recurrence of memory

SPARAGMOS: the tearing or rendering of human flesh, being torn to shreds

TRAGEDY: 1) wasted potential; 2) extreme pain resulting in our shredding

POLYTROPIC: wily

HERM: found at a crossroads

HYSTERICAL: wandering wombs

MYTHOS: the story

ENTHUSIASTIC: entheos, the god inside you

COURTESAN: a 'high class' prostitute or mistress

GENIUS: to invoke the genie who brings out the best in you

ARCHAIC: old and outdated

CATHARSIS: purging and cleansing of the system

SENEX: stupid, old, impotent men