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CLE III

CLE III. Nisus and Euryalus to the paradoxes of Zeno. Nisus and Euryalus. True comrades, served under Aeneas infiltrated the Rutulian camp, Euryalus is captured and executed. The hiding Nisus goes berserk. Novus ordo seclorum. New order of the ages Reverse of the Seal of the US.

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CLE III

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  1. CLE III Nisus and Euryalus to the paradoxes of Zeno

  2. Nisus and Euryalus • True comrades, served under Aeneas • infiltrated the Rutulian camp, Euryalus is captured and executed. • The hiding Nisus goes berserk

  3. Novus ordoseclorum • New order of the ages • Reverse of the Seal of the US

  4. O tempora, o mores, Cicero’s prima oratio against Catiline

  5. Obiter dictum • ‘said by the way.’ an aside. • Used in a legal context: not part of the persuasive case.

  6. ostracism

  7. Ovid • PubliusOvidiusNaso • Amores, ArsAmatoria, Metamorphoses

  8. palladium • Wooden statue of Athena in Troy • Fell from the sky shortly after the founding of the city. • Stolen by Odysseus and Diomedes. • Taken by Aeneas • Taken by Constantine to Constantinople

  9. Parmenides • Pre-Socratic • Of Elea • The way of truth, logos, that which exists • The way of opinion, doxa, or perception – necessarily deceptive

  10. Patroclus • Son of Menoetius, the Argonaut • Comrade of Achilles • Wears the armour of Achilles, killed by Hektor after a rampage

  11. Pericles

  12. peroration • The end of a treatise or speech, usually intended to inspire.

  13. philippic • Demosthenes – Philip II • Cicero – Mark Antony

  14. Philomela and Procne

  15. Pindar • Odes • Alexander

  16. Plato • The Republic, Apology, Symposium • The Academy

  17. Platonic ideas • The Theory of Forms • Explained by the Divided Line • The Ideal

  18. Platonic love • A strong (yet not physical) love • Perhaps so strong it transcends the physical…

  19. Plautus • Exceedingly influential early Roman comedic author – Shakespeare. • Miles Gloriosus, Pseudulos

  20. Pliny the Younger • Natural Philosopher • Letters to Trajan • Plinian Eruption, Pompeii, 79

  21. polemic • A controversial and inflammatory argument against a doctrine, idea, or a person. • Polemos - battle

  22. preterition • A rhetorical device used to bring something up by denying it. ‘I will not even mention that you supported Cataline… • To skip over a disagreeable matter or person. • The neglect of a testator to mention a legal heir in a will

  23. Primus inter pares • First among parts, first among equals

  24. Pythagoras of Samos • Mathematics as the explanation of nature • Influence on Plato

  25. q.v. / quod vide • ‘which see’, ‘see that’ • Used after a term or concept of citation to say that more information on the subject is available elsewhere.

  26. Quiscustodietipsoscustodes? • Who will guard the guards themselves? • Juvenal, Satires

  27. Quintilian • The greatest orator after Cicero • Immensely influential in Middle Ages • Institutes of Oratory

  28. Quo vadis? • Where goesth thou? Said to St Peter, and by St Peter.

  29. Reductio ad absurdum • Reduction to the absurd • A negative tactic showing that a contention will, when taken to the extreme, lead to absurd conclusions. • The categorical imperative

  30. Res gestae (Augusti) • The things accomplished (of Augustus), funerary inscription

  31. Sallust • Populist historian • Prime source for The Conspiracy of Cataline, BellumCatilinae

  32. Sappho of Lesbos • Lyric poetry • Much of her work is lost, but it was well regarded in antiquity.

  33. Sc. / scilicet • From scire and licet • It is allowed to know: “namely”, “that is” • Used especially in explaining an obscure text or supplying a missing word • Contrast with id est – “in other words”, “thatis” • The journal cites the spot, sc. present-day Provincetown, as the location of the Pilgrims’ first landfall.

  34. Socratic wisdom • The Socratic Method of questioning, critical thinking, and discussion to establish truths.

  35. Solon of Salamis • Law-giver of Athens • Self-imposed 10 year exile • Croesus

  36. Sophist / sophistry • Making the weaker argument the stronger

  37. Sophocles • The second great Athenian tragedian • The Theban Cycle – Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonos • Lived to 90, won the City Dionysia more than anyone else

  38. specious • Having deceptive attraction, a false look of truth • Sophistic • Something gilded; it looks shiny but is only covered with a veneer of gold

  39. stet • Let it stand

  40. stoicism

  41. Suetonius • De Vita Caesarum • Most balanced surviving primary source for early Imperial History.

  42. Tacitus • Annales • Silver Age, owes much to Sallust • A Senator, he shows the Emperors’ growing tyranny in frequent, comic extravagancies.

  43. Terence • “I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.” • Latin extension of New Comedy • Widely read…until recently • Adelphoe, Andria, Eunuchus

  44. Thales of Miletus • The first Greek philosopher • Originator of the hypothesis • Thales’ (intercept) Theorem

  45. the Academy • School of Plato

  46. the divided line • Plato explaining existence and knowledge • D-E, philosophical understanding of Forms • C-D, dianoia, mathematical knowledge of abstractions • B-C, pistis, belief of physical principles • A-B, opinions, illusions; shadows of the real • See Next Slide

  47. the golden mean • The middle between the extremes • Nothing in excess

  48. Thebes • Cadmus • Oedipus, Jocasta, and Antigone • Epaminondas and the Sacred Band

  49. Themistocles

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