Lecture Terms and Questions

October 5, 2000

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panhellenic games (agones) Olympia (Zeus) Delphi (Pythian; Apollo) Corinth (Isthmian; Poseidon) Nemean (Zeus)	Olympia: sanctuary of Zeus Olympios River Alpheios temples of Zeus and Hera stadion palaestron	Circuit-victor
Hippodameia	Pelops (--> "Peloponnese")	Heracles
Augeian stables	victory (epinician) ode	gnome (pl. gnomai)
mythological exemplum	Cerberus	katabasis
Meleagros	Calydonian Boar

1. Identify the gnomai in Bacch. 3 and 4; identify the myths in each ode. How are these two elements connected in each ode, and what overall "message" results? How are such messages appropriate to the occasions on which these odes would have been performed?

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