The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in a plot
What is foreshadowing?
100
Considered to be the national epic of Rome
What is Aeneid?
100
One of the earliest epics in Western literature
What is the Iliad?
100
Son of a mortal king, Peleus, and the sea goddess Thetis
Who is Achilles?
100
Father god, the most powerful of all the gods
Who is Zeus?
200
A scene the interrupts present action to narrate the events of an earlier time
What is a flashback?
200
Wrote the national epic of Rome
Who is Virgil?
200
Wrote the epics the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
200
Son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba; commander of the Trojan forces
Who is Hector?
200
Goddess of wisdom
Who is Athena?
300
An extended comparison
What is an epic simile?
300
The Romans established this type of government which is when voters elect representatives to make political decisions
What is a republican government?
300
This era was called the Heroic Age because the great figures in the epic were looked on as the ancestors of the Greeks and were held up as models of heroic behavior
What is the Mycenaen era?
300
Daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba; she has the gift of prophecy
Who is Cassandra?
300
Wife of Zeus
Who is Hera?
400
A formal plea for aid
What is invocation?
400
This emperor of Rome spent much of his vast wealth rebuilding the city of Rome and peace returned at last to the Roman world
Who is Augustus?
400
A script based on a system borrowed from the Phoenicians developed by the Greeks
What is the alphabet?
400
King of Pylos. The oldest of the Greek leaders at Troy; he serves as a counselor
Who is Nestor?
400
Messenger of the gods, also called Wayfinder
Who is Hermes?
500
Means "into the midst of things" in Latin
What is in media res?
500
These people believed that people are merely collections of atoms, which disappear at death and that the object of life is to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and value true friendship
Who are Epicureans?
500
A person-either mythical or real-from whose name the name of a nation, idea, or term has been derived