Greek Terms

    Cards (15)

    • Xenia – guest hospitality 
    • Zeus is the good of Xenia – punishment from Zeus for non-conforming hosts/guests.
    • Nostos - homecoming (Odyssey is Odysseus' nostos)
    • Kleos - glory
    • Kleos Vs nostos - Odysseus' internal conflict
    • Omoi - Woe is me, but Greek.
    • Homeric simile - "the relief that a man's children feel..." --->contextually, this was when people began to travel overseas - extremely dangerous, hence current focus on mortality aspect.
    • Timé
      Honour
    • Oikos
      Household
    • Kyrios
      Patriarch
    • Hetaerae
      Educated courtesans
    • Pornoi
      Low class sex workers
    • Nepos
      Family
    • Sophrosyne
      Self-control / restraint
    • Miasma
      Moral pollution
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