Terms and concepts -- their HELLENISTIC meanings

GENERAL	LITERATURE
agon akanthus ataraxia chora citizenship demos erudition eudaimonia helot incubation koine liminal liturgy (Hellenistic) mimesis oikoumene orator phalanx ruler cult sarissa symmachy syncretism synoikismos tyche	know the works we have read bucolic ekphrasis/ecphrasis epigram Erinna hymn idyll mime pastoral Apollonius of Rhodes Apuleius of Madaura Herondas/Herodas Kallimachos Meleager Menander New Comedy Theokritos topos

ART	ARCHITECTURE
anastole apoxyomenos archaising baroque chryselephantine classicising diadem drapery: "wet" and "flying" styles larnax Mehransichtig (adj), Mehransichtigkeit (n) mosaic: pebble and tessellated (tesserae), opus vermiculatum nereid pastiche pyramidal construction slashing diagonals stele, pl. stelai Lysippos of Sikyon Praxiteles of Athens Skopas of Paros	arch barrel vault basileia Corinthian order cornice entablature frieze, triglyph, metope heroon (pl. heroa) hypaethral Ionic order naos,. naiskos orthogonal (Hippodamian) grid plan pediment peripteros, dipteros peristyle court propylon prostyle, amphiprostyle "Rhodian" house tholos

PLACES

PEOPLE

Alexandria Antioch on the Orontes Athens Babylon Bassai Carthage Crete Cyprus Delos Didyma Ephesos Epidauros Halikarnassos Jerusalem Judea Kos Lindos Macedonia Mesopotamia Miletus Morgantina/Sicily Olynthos Pella Pergamon Petra Priene Rhodes Samothrace Seleukid Kingdom Syracuse/Sicily Syria Thrace Vergina Xanthos

know the gods Aeschines Alexander the Great Antigonid dynasty Antigonos Monophthalmos (One-Eyed) Antiochos I, III, IV Aristotle Arsinoës, esp. II, III Attalid dynasty Berenikes, esp. I, II Demetrios Poliorketes (Besieger of Cities) Demetrios Demosthenes Epikouros Eurydike Kassander Kleopatras, esp. VII Laodike Lysimachos of Thrace Menander (poet) Menander (ruler) Mithridates VI Olympias Perseus Philetairos Philip II of Macedon Philip V Plato Ptolemies / Ptolemaic dynasty Pyrrhos of Epirus Seleukid dynasty Theophrastus Zeno of Kition