| A | B |
|---|
| techné | to touch nature and make something grand |
| elitism/cultural superiority | when people feel they are curturally superior to another culture/people and that they have the right to exploit those who are inferior |
| chutzpa | nerve, balls |
| cyclostic life | life with no techné (like the cyclops) |
| ontology | the study of being |
| epistomology | knowledge |
| eros | sex, danger, power, passion, love, etc. (root of erotic) |
| thantos | death |
| esti | it is |
| logos | reason, "the word" of God |
| mythos | Gods are responsible for everything |
| flux | fire |
| genethi | everything is becoming (something else) |
| jingoism | extreme patriotism |
| arete | virtue, the way to live |
| humanism | people are capable of achieving greatness w/o God (Greeks 1st to believe this)/movement from mythos to logos in Greek world - most important contribution of the Greeks |
| ex-nihilo | from nothing |
| sycphatic | realizing that something you thought was something is in fact nothing |
| polis | city-state |
| tragos | tragedy (literally = goat song, became story of sadness) |
| hamartia | error in insight |
| peripitia | tragic insight (when the tragic hero suddenly sees what he's done wrong) |
| hubrus | excessive pride (connected to hamartia, always undermines the tragic hero) |
| catharsis | purge by fire (identfy with sadness that purifies/cleansed by seeing the awful truth) |
| argon | scene with the protagonist vs. antagonist (Greeks looked forward to this) |
| protatgonist | main, leading character in drama/literary work |
| antagonist | one who opposes, opposition to the protagonist |
| Helenic | building up of all Greek culture (philos, politics, arts, after Homer to the 4th century) |
| Helenistic | the spreading out of Greek culture throughout the wester world (after Phillip and Alexander, affects the Romans who adopt it all and eventually conquer Greeks) |
| deas machina | when God hands out punishment |
| charis | hospitality |
| wyrd | doomed to be mortal and to die |
| dramatic irony | audience knows something the characters don't know |
| naturalism | of and thru nature |
| primary mortality | sense of right & wrong you get from family (religion, race, etc)/ acceptance of something because that is how you were raised |
| secondary morality | using your own logos to figure out what is wrong & right based on inquiry and reason |
| moral absolutism | conceptions of truth and moral values are absolute and apply to everyone |
| moral relativism | conceptions of truth and moral values are not abosolute but are realive to the persons holding them |
| tyrant | someone w/ absolute power but didn't have bloodline connection to a king (had complete control of the city-states) |
