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SSAW - 2
Ch. 3 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Xenia | gift exchange and guest-friendship among aristocrats |
"Always to be the best and to be eminent beyond others" | Self explanatory |
arete | especial skill or excellence |
time | honor |
hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence |
agon | contest |
Patroklos | friend of Achilles who died at Troy (Illiad) |
Achilles | hero of the Illiad |
hoi polloi | "the many" referring to the common not aristocrat |
Agememnon | "best of spearmen" |
lump of pig iron | Achronism - inconsistency in the timeline - lump of iron in the bronze age? |
kerdos | seeker of profit |
kleos | glory (seeker of glory) |
suitors | people watching |
contest of the bow | contest to shoot arrow through sockets of axe-heads; for Penelopa and the kingdom |