exam #1 questions...

1. What did Demeter do to get revenge for Persephone abduction? ~She sent winter
2. What is a senex? ~ a doddering old fool
3. What are the 3 manifestations of the Universal goddess (triple goddess)? ~ the crone, the maiden and the mother
4. What is the definition of 'puer?' ~An archetypal youth
5. The reason why 'I' couldn't have taken your cattle? ~ "I was born yesterday"
6. What did Aggy have to do to be able to go to the Trojan War? ~ sacrifice Iffy, his daughter
7. What is the heart of all tragedy according to Sophy? ~ The best thing that could happen to you is to have never been born
8. What is the definition of sparagmos? ~rendering/tearing of live flesh; SHREDDING
9. What is 'the kore?' ~ the maiden (Persephone)
10. How was Dionysus born? ~ He of the 'double doors' who was created from Zeus's thigh
11. What is stichomythia? ~ a short, pungent exchange between characters (agnostic combatants)
12. Name the 5 conflicts in Antigone. ~ 1) man and woman, 2) young and old, 3) individual and society, 4) living and the dead, 5) man and the gods
13. What was Aphrodite Urania the goddess of? ~ spiritual love
14. What does Dr. Sexson think was 'shown' during the Eleusian mysteries ceremony? ~ a stalk of wheat
15. What does Antigone's name mean? ~ anti- birth
16. What is the definition of a 'hubris?' ~ overwhelming sense of pride or arrogance
17. What is the 'tragic flaw' of all characters? ~ that they were born
18. Is there going to be a test of your knowledge of lines 441-581 in Antigone? ~ perhaps
19. Who do you invoke for inspiration? ~ the muses
20. How many muses are there? ~ 9
21. What was the name of the first song (performed by Hermes)? ~ stairway to heaven
22. What does chthonic mean? ~ relating to the underworld
23. What did Persephone eat that binded her to the underworld? ~ a pomegranate seed
24. What did Tyreseus experience that no one else can? ~ life as both a male and a female
25. What does 'hysterical' mean? ~ detached womb
26. Who was the father of the muses? ~ Zeus
27. What does 'catharsis' mean? ~purgation, cleansing of the system
28. Was Jocasta only Antigone's mother? ~ No, she was also her grandmother
29. What is the definition of 'pous?' ~city
30. What does 'mythos' mean? ~ story
31. When is Cassi's b-day, and where was she born? ~ February 2, 1987 in Grand Junction, Co
32. Is it time to go? ~ yes, it's 2:03 pm

You also need to know much more, these are just what we discussed in class.

Remember you should go to Jann, Elizabeth, and Amanda's blogs too!

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

Friday February 16

BEWARE OF THE PEANUT BUTTER PLAGUE!!!!!

the plagues of Egypt

Anna Nicole sphinx asks:

what has...

4 legs in the morning
2 legs in the afternoon
3 legs in the evening

a human!

Dionysus Dithyrambs: god of the double doors, who wanted to create a 'stairway to heaven'

he of the double doors= 'The Doors' Jim Morrison

William Blake: 'If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.' ~the Marriage of Heaven and Hell

young men who were shredded:

• Elvis
• James Dean
• Jim Morrison
• Kirk Cobain

Shakespeare: wrote artistic versions of a story we all know, like Sophocles

they both work with the story to craft something complete and creates catharsis in the reader, because they did these things, the reader doesn't have to

Tiresias: oracle who sees things although he is blind, sees the world beyond the limitedness of a man or a woman

there are no true or original versions

Juno= Hera

Senex: the senate 'stupid, old, impotent men'

Max Bacchus: Montana senator

Bacchus: another name for Dionysus

The messenger: comes with bad news, usually describing scenes of incredible, graphic violence which was never actually shown, just described (usually has a sadistic nature)

which leads you to ponder... is it worse to have something described to you, or to see it?

listening: because once you use your imagination, it becomes much worse for you because your imagination is unlimited

King Lear: when Cordelia dies King Lear is so overwhelmed by her death all he can do is cry and scream

Macbeth: unmoved when Lady Macbeth dies because he is so overwhelmed with all of the death he has just experienced

"Out, out brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" ~Macbeth

Cupid and Psyche

I think that this is one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen.

Wednesday February 14

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!

'What dreams may come'

LOVE: many different meanings to the one word

you can love your dog, family, significant 'otter' or even chocolate, but they don't all mean the same thing

Aphrodite: Venus, the goddess of love, she was so beautiful that she left you weak in the knees (which makes you collapse because you are just in the presence of them)

She was the mother of Eros, who was the male equivalent of her. He was also known as Cupid, and not the Cupid we know, a beautiful male-god.

Hesiod

Aphrodite Urania: born from Uranos, possesses the pure, spiritual, platonic type of love

Aphrodite Pandemos: the goddess of physical love, who has the power of erotic possession

Cupid and psyche

November 7th is the anniversary of the symposium

soulmate: the one who completes your soul

Hetaera: courtesans and Geisha

Ishtar: Aphrodite => 'ritual prostitution'

The trilogy of Oedipus:

1. Oedipus
2. Oedipus at Colonus
3. Antigone

'Everything is tragic' ~1st Buddhist truth

'It is best never to have been born at all, next best to die young, and that old age is the worst that can befall man" ~Oedipus at Colonus

Lawrence Welk

Monday February 12

"If you pretend hard enough, it can be true" ~Dr. Sexson

Puer: the archetypal youth, just like Peter Pan. Clap your hands if you believe in fairies...

"Imaginary people are the most interesting that I know" ~Dr. Sexson

Opera superstars:

• Manon
• Violetta
• Odette
• Anna Nicole Smith?

• Marilyn Monroe?

all of these women were courtesans

Why are we so possessed with these women?

• the media
• reading the times and trying to get into the eternities
• trying to be like someone else

What makes an icon?

Insignificance- film

What man is good with women?

George Eliot

screed: a breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound

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

"Art doesn't imitate life, life imitates art" ~Oscar Wilde

Antony and Cleopatra

Cleopatra: made love to all of the powerful men in Rome, and had power over all of them :)

The brilliant Steiner made a mistake, alert the media...

On page 235 he says that it's Cleopatra's 'mortal coil' but really it's Hamlet's 'mortal coil, and Cleopatra's 'knot intrinsic'

"The eccentric is the means of design" ~Wallace Stevens

archaic: old and outdated