1. What does hubris mean? -pride, arrogance
2. The eleusinian mysteries: something done - reenactment of abduction of persephone; something said - rain, conceive; and something seen - stalk of corn.
3. The five Steiner conflicts: Man vs Woman, Youth vs Age, Individual vs Society, Living vs. Dead, Gods vs Humans
4. Epithet? A handle, nickname, that refers to an attribute of a person and often stands for that person, or thing; example , trim ankles = persephone.
5. Which two characters exemplify Steiner's five conflicts? Antigone & Creon
6. Stichomythia? Rapid succession of one-liners.
7. Sparagmos? the tearing apart of live flesh.
8. Anthropocentric? Human centered; theocentric? god centered.
9. Miasma? pollution
10. Go over intro to antigone: Antigone's view of politics, notion of the moving target, Creon's name
11. The myth of eternal return, Groundhogs Day, and Demeter and Persephone: cyclical repetition
12. Hermes is everywhere: in Thor the cat, Stewie Griffin, Bart Simpson and more.
13. Thoreau suggest we read the _____ and not the ______. Eternities, Times
14. Zeus and Creon take someone from above and put them down below.
15. in ill tempore? in the great time, in the beginning.
16. Which two mythological figures are polytropic? Odysseys and Hermes
17. The three great tragedians, Escalus, Sophocles, Euripedes.
18. Who is the god of the crossroads? Hermes
19. Agon = conflict
20. All that is _______ possesses the _________.
21. The chorus in Anitgone says the two best things to happen to a person are never to be born and die.
22. Sarvam: all is fleeting, all is suffering
23. Antigone means, against birth, anti birth
24. Oedipus' injury as an infant? holes in ankle - maybe he should be called trim ankles.
25. Hermes response about his innocence: He was 'born yesterday'
26. Robert Johnson did what at the crossroads? Sold his soul to the devil to play the guitar.
27. We laugh so we don't have to cry.
28. Anagogy: the heavenly realm
29. Senex is an old man
