Hiya. This is a page of terms for Prof. Cohen's MMW midterm. I guess it will make a good study guide. Items are divided by term and will be added as I go along. Feel free to add/edit stuff. Make sure it's constructive, please! :)
One of the titans who cut off his fathers balls. Overthrown by Zeus.
Cottus
Made a big speech which made him a mythmaker, because words were associated with action and through the action he is creating myth. He is also a 100-armed beast.
Zeus
The leader of the Greek gods. Overthrew Cronus, story of Iapetus and Clymene (Atlas, Menoetius, Promethius). Slept with everyone.
anthropocentric
Human centered
normative
Setting something as the standard
Sophocles
(c. 496-406 BCE)
Oedipus Rex
He does his mom.
Oedipus at Colonus
Eteokles and Polyneices kill each other.
Antigone
[written 442-1 BCE]
Oedipus
Killed his father and marries his mother.
Polyneices
Brother of Antigone. Could not be buried because of his feud with his king brother.
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Eteokles
Would not give up the throne even though he and his brother made a deal to alternate kings every year. Was allowed a burial.
Ismene
Antigone's meek sister and her foil.
Antigone
Lead character of the play. Embodies values of a "good" citizen because she is vocal, brash and active.
Kreon
Haimon
Teiresias
The seer/ prophet who is right about everything at the end of the play.
Charon
The ferryman of the dead
Thebes
Psyche
The soul..the life force that goes to Hades
Hades
The underworld, hell; you don't want to end up here.
Acheron
Boatman in charge of transporting the dead across the river Styx.
obolus
The coins that are put on dead people's eyes to pay for the insane shipping and handling fee.
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Bacchae
Pandora
known as the box of evils. Also the 1st woman who caused the downfall of man. Zeus sent her because he was jealous of people's fire.
cutting of foreskin; sign of God's covenant w/ Abraham
Jew vs. Hebrew vs. Israelite
Laws of Kosher
Mt. Sinai
Goshen
ethnonym
historicity
holiness
abomination
biblical archaeology
search for historical ratification of Biblical events through archaeology
scholarly consensus
material culture
Joshua
Gideon
Caanan
Caananite
Jericho
Israelite
Ark of the Covenant
monotheism
El
Asherah
Ba'al
Canaanite fertility gods
Hittites
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Judah
Southern kingdom, conquered by Babylon 578 BCE, released by Persians in 538 BCE
Jerusalem
King David's capital city has a temple that is the central area of worship of the Torah
moshiach
Hebrew; translated as "anointed"; common usage is currently as "messiah"
internalization
A form of securing God's covenant, as opposed to external rituals and laws so as to prove obedience. People instead followed words and books, internalizing their prayer, beliefs, and morality to prove their faith in God.
synagogue
Greek word meaning "meeting place"; this is where Jews meet to sacrifice their words and time to God instead of sacrficing animals and burning fat
theocracy
a gov't ruled by a religious leader
10 Lost Tribes
The tribes of the conquered Northern kingdom. Pwned from Israeli history after 722
Ark of the Covenant
Crate in which stone tablets of the 10 commandments were kept; used as a battle standard, proving which side God was on in times of war
Holy of Holies
closed off, elite chamber where only the high priest can enter and pray on behalf of the people (in stark contrast to the ideal of internalization, in that the latter is more populist, and the Holy of Holies is elitist)
Assyria
got pwned by Babylonians
Babylonia
present-day Iraq/Iran; pwned by Greeks. Major power in 6th c. BCE
Persia
pwned Babylon, and let Hebrews go from Babylonian Exile in 538 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar
Lived in 7th c. BCE. Pwned Judah. Took able-bodied men to Babylon (see Babylonian Exile)
Jeremiah
Ezra
priest
Nehemiah
Nimrud Prism
Extra source ~724 telling about Assyrians' shuffle of the inhabitants of their conquered territories
Samaria
Cyrus the Great
Persia became powerful in 540 BCE and overthrew the Babylonians with Cyrus as king. He gave the Hebrews permission to go back to their land, allowed their temple and city to be rebuilt, but did not allow the monarchy to be restored. He did allow them to be led by a high priest.
King David
King Solomon
David's son; builds a temple at Jerusalem that serves as a permanent area of worship for YHWH
Holy of holies
a windowless chamber at the center of Solomon's temple where the holiest priest could go in and directly converse with God
Rehobam
Solomon's son and successor; was a very strict ruler, lead to divided monarchy
Zedekiah
King of Judah; decided that he didn't want to pay tribute to Babylonians which led to destruction of Judah
prophets
"authoritative moral presences"; people that interpreted God's law
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