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CLE III

CLE III. A priori – multum in parvo. A priori/ a posteriori. Prior to / afterward Types of knowledge: gained before an experience or through logic/gained after gathering knowledge . Achates. Fidus Achates. Achates.

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CLE III

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  1. CLE III A priori – multum in parvo

  2. A priori/ a posteriori • Prior to / afterward • Types of knowledge: gained before an experience or through logic/gained after gathering knowledge

  3. Achates • FidusAchates

  4. Achates • FidusAchates – faithful Achates, companion to Aeneas on his journeys, helps him scout out Carthage. Only one line is devoted to him in the Aeneid.

  5. Ad valorem • According to value (tax)

  6. Aeschylus

  7. Aeschylus • 1 of 3 Greek tragedians whose work survives (Sophocles & Euripides) • 525-456 BCE • Orestia the only complete Greek trilogy to survive (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) • Agamemnon, King of Argos, sacrificed daughter, Iphigenia, at the outset of the war between Greeks and Trojans.

  8. Aeschylus • Clytemnestra, angered about Iphigenia and Trojan mistress Cassandra, murders husband and mistress. • Orestes, his son, eventually avenges father’s death, killing mother and her lover.

  9. Ajax • Strongest of the Greeks, second only to Achilles in battle • 5 inch wide kneecap (Pausanius)

  10. AlcibiadesAthenian statesman, orator, general, b. 450 BCE, led Sicilian Expedition, hopes of enriching Athens, imposing rule on Syracuse. Accused of profaning statues of Hermes and the Eleusinan Mysteries and ultimately command fell into the hands of Nicias. Expedition failed.

  11. Anchises • Father of Aeneas

  12. Annuitcoeptis • He approves of our undertakings

  13. Antigone • Daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus • Wants to bury the body of Polyneikes, and does, but that makes Creon mad…

  14. arete • Arhth • Strength in face of adversity, skill, excellence • Jamb statue at library of Ephesus (with Sophia)

  15. Aristophanes • Greatest Greek comic, 5th cent. BC • Frogs (Euripides), Wasps (deterioration of Athens), Clouds (Socrates), Lysistrata(pacifism during the Pelopponnesian Wars – Athenian women tire of losing sons on battlefield and deny husbands marital rights until they make peace with Sparta)

  16. Aristotle • Ethics, Physics, Metaphysics (thoughts on divine reality formulated after his treatise on nature/physics) • Dialectic – a conclusion follows from a premise • Constitution of the Athenians • Aquinas (1220s CE) and Aristotle both believed one had to live a moral, flourishing life to be happy • Aquinas did not believe reason was the only path to God like Aristotle

  17. Aristotle (right) believed sense experience was the source of all knowledge. Plato (left) believed material world was just a copy of the real world. His metaphysics = Socrates’ division of reality into material vs. spiritual.

  18. Armatogaecedant • Arms fall to the toga • Triumph of diplomacy and delicate sensibilities over force

  19. Atilla • Great horsemaster • Chalons, 451

  20. B.A. • Baccalaureus artium

  21. b.i.d./t.i.d. • Bis/ter in die • Two/three times a day

  22. Cadmus • Founder of Thebes, alphabet • Cow, Dragon

  23. Carthagodelendaest • Carthage must be destroyed • Cato the Elder

  24. Cato the Elder • Various writings about farming

  25. Catullus • Latin lyric • Lesbia (Clodia) • Dies at 32

  26. Ceteris paribus • With other things the same • All else being equal

  27. Cicero

  28. Citius, altius, fortius • Faster, higher, stronger

  29. Claudius • Calligula and Nero • Britian • Claudian Letters? • I, Claudius Robert Graves

  30. Cleobis and Biton

  31. Code of Justinian • THE codification of Roman law • Corpus juriscivilis

  32. Codex • A book (block) format, as opposed to a scroll

  33. Corinthian • Also it can mean libertine

  34. Croesus • King of Lydia • Happiness in Herodotus

  35. De gustibus non disputandumest • There is no disputing about tastes

  36. De rerumnatura • Lucretius • The Epicurean condition

  37. Delian League • Athenian Confederacy • Treasury at Delos…until 454

  38. Democritus • The laughing philosopher, 460 BC • Espoused value of cheerfulness • Atomist – nature is made of atoms

  39. Deo volente • God (being) willing

  40. Dido • Founder and Queen of Carthage • Tyre, Anna, Sycheaus, Pygmalion, Aeneas

  41. Dies irae • Day of Wrath • 13th century choral Latin • Typical section of requia

  42. Doric • Style, also refers to the southern Greeks

  43. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori • It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country… • But sweeter still to live and sweetest of all to drink to it. • Owen

  44. elegiac • A couplet of two lines of dactylic hexameter • 7th c BC • Relating to an elegy, somethimes sorrow for something past. • Ovid, ArsAmatoria, Amores

  45. Eleusinian mysteries • Every fall • Commemoration of the Rape of Persephone • mysteries or musteriai, from mustes – an initiate • Rebirth after death – pigs and cursing

  46. encomium • Tribute, glowing and enthusiastic praise • egkwmion

  47. epicureanism • Lucretius • Horace • Ataraxia and aponia – peace and fearlessness

  48. Eris • Goddess of discord

  49. Esse quam videri • To be rather than to seem • North Carolina

  50. Euclid • Elements • Father of geometry

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