If you can identify and explain the following terms and concepts, you will be in fantastic shape for the final exam!

General knowledge of Greek literature and literacy  Literature vs. writing - what is the difference; what and when was the earliest actual literature  Importance of a literate Greek public and education – who could read  Oral vs. written work  Preservation of Greek literature – on what is Greek literature preserved, how much is preserved, who was involved in its preservation (role of Romans, role of library of Alexandria and which authors were associated with it), problems its limited preservation causes for classicists

The major genres of literature  Which genres were prose and which were poetry  Which authors wrote in each genre  General characteristics of each genre and progression from one to the next when applicable

The major authors of Greek literature  What are they known for writing?  What are some aspects of their style?  Generally when did they write (e.g. Archaic period vs. Hellenistic – not actual dates)  Characteristics of groups of authors (e.g. female authors – who and what did they write, Homeric hymns, historians vs. chroniclers, Milesian philosophers, Pre-Socratic philosophers, etc.)

Terminology: Poetic: What do these basic terms mean and to what type of literature do they pertain? dialect, meter, iambics, elegaics, invective, foot, lyric, choral lyric, monody, dithyramb, satyr play, rhapsode, Homeric Hymns, inherited conglomerate (aka The Blob), Epic Cycle, agon, arête, nemesis, hubris, subtext, foil, protagonist, antagonist, bucolic, metaphor, simile, dactylic hexameter, epigrams, poetry, prose, subject, theme, onomatopoeia

Philosophical and Rhetorical: What do these basic terms mean and to whose work do they pertain? arche, relativism, sophistry and Sophistic Method, cosmology vs. cosmetology, Socratic method, forms, logography, rhetoric vs. oratory, conscious vs. unconscious oratory, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Cynicism, Skepticism, Eclecticism, tripartite soul, dialectic, empiricism, rationalism

Greek Drama – context, setting, development, structure, actors, costuming, characteristics of the major playwrights, Old Comedy vs. New Comedy (you will not be tested on the parts of the Greek theater)

Ionian Enlightenment – what was it and why was it important

Math and science writing (medical writing) – what were they and why were they important