Drama
This playwright wrote over 120 plays.
Who is Sophocles?
This Greek rhetorical device relates most closely to the theme of GMM.
What is pathos?
This Greek god ensures thieves can be successful in their sneaky dealings.
Who is Hermes?
The death of this person drove Clytemnestra to kill her husband.
Who is Iphigenia?
This represents the voice of the community.
What is the chorus?
This Greek term describes the audience's feeling of emotional release after a play.
What is catharsis?
This motivates Clytemnestra to send flowers, etc., to her dead husband's grave.
What is a mysterious dream (nightmare)?
Vocab: Navigating the will of the gods means ___ with your fate.
tussle(-ing)
This was invented in ~700 BC at the Festival of Dionysus: _____.
What is "drama"?
This Greek term describes a hero's fatal flaw.
What is hamartia?
Allusions to this unlucky former queen of Thebes underscore the theme of GMM.
Who is Niobe?
Orestes' remark to Electra that "women can be martial too, as you well know from bitter experience" relates most closely to this theme.
What is GS?
Discounting Tantalus, this person can be fairly credited for starting the Curse of the House of Atreus.
Who is Pelops?
This originally had only 3 people, none of which were women.
What is early Greek theater?
This Greek term concerns a sudden change in luck, usually for the worse.
What is peripeteia?
This personified object has "long been aware of [Electra's] sleepless nights."
What is Electra's bed?
This Greek term stands out most distinctly in Orestes' statement to Aegisthus: "Do you not realize that you, still living, / have been parleying [i.e., speaking to] with the dead?"
What is anagnorisis?
This Greek term is a rhetorical device involving the repetition of words derived from the same root, but with different inflections, endings, or grammatical forms within the same sentence or clause
What is polyptoton?
Location: Mycenae
Time: ~1250 BC
This Greek term describes a moment of recognition, such as when Electra realizes the stranger is Orestes.
What is anagnorisis?
This god communicates exclusively through the Pythian oracle at Delphi.
Who is Apollo.
This literary device stands out most in the following quotation: “I / have found you living a life / You cannot enjoy, though you have won / The highest prize in the greatest laws . . ."
What is irony?
The following quotation is an example of this rhetorical device: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." —John F. Kennedy
What is parallelism?