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Intro to Humanities Notes Part 2
Acronyms:
o Classical Period (Birth Period)
▪ B/RTH
▪ Balance, Reason/Truth, and Humanism
▪ P/RD
▪ Polytheism, Republic and Democracy
o Renaissance
▪ RUSH
▪ Reformation, University System, Scientific Expansion, and
Humanism.
▪ RoCS period
▪ Rebirth of Classicism and Self-Fashioning
o Neoclassical Period
▪ CORDES period (Imagine listening to the “chords” of classical music
▪ Classicism, Order, Rationalism, Deism, Empiricism, and Skepticism.
o Romantic Period
▪ INNER HP period
▪ Individualism, Nationalism, Nature, Exoticism, and Revolution
▪ HP represents Heroism and Passion
o Realism Period
▪ I ID AoD period (The time that you identify the age of doubt)
▪ I: Industrialization
▪ ID: Individualism and Darwinism
▪ AoD: Age of Doubt
Classical Need to Know:
- Primary Religion: Polytheistic Ideas (Multiple Gods)
- Socrates: Socratic Method, Questions shared to solve problems in an open discussion.
- Poet’s address heroism, reason, love, and fate.
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, 9/13/24, 10:58 Intro to Humanities Notes NEED TO
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- Two popular poems: A Lament for Adonis and The Odyssey. They celebrate cultural
values of the heroic age.
- The Republic – Plato: People can think rationally, but they are predisposed to act on
their own self-interest. So, they should by ruled by a philosopher-king who makes
decisions based on reason and justice.
The Odyssey - Homer A Lament for Adonis - Sappho
Major themes consist of love, loyalty, Places human emotion at the center of
heroism, and polytheism. the poem rather than a god or goddess.
A poem based on Odysseus’ ten-year Uses intimate language to represent
struggle to return home. deeply personal emotions.
- Lyric Poetry: Intimate language for everyday objects.
- Classical theater included: foreshadowing, tragic irony, reversal of fortune, double
entendre, discovery, and use of a chorus. Tragedy was the predominant genre
performed.
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles Lysistrata - Aristophanes
The main character is adopted by a Depicts the stereotypes of both men and
Corinthian King and Queen women through each other’s eyes.
Main character brings about their own Lysistrata rallies the women of Greece to
downfall by persistently pursuing their withhold sex from their men to end the
curiosity. Peloponnesian War.
- Greek Architecture: Balance and Harmony. Columns, Capital supported the entablature,
carved friezes, and a roof that contains sculptures called pediments.
- Roman Architecture: The use of columns and arches. Used concrete faced with brick.
- Classical work modeled a relationship of cultural exchange and diversity.
- The Silk Road provided access to Asia and brought valuable Chinese good of silk to the
Romans.
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AM KNOW
Intro to Humanities Notes Part 2
Acronyms:
o Classical Period (Birth Period)
▪ B/RTH
▪ Balance, Reason/Truth, and Humanism
▪ P/RD
▪ Polytheism, Republic and Democracy
o Renaissance
▪ RUSH
▪ Reformation, University System, Scientific Expansion, and
Humanism.
▪ RoCS period
▪ Rebirth of Classicism and Self-Fashioning
o Neoclassical Period
▪ CORDES period (Imagine listening to the “chords” of classical music
▪ Classicism, Order, Rationalism, Deism, Empiricism, and Skepticism.
o Romantic Period
▪ INNER HP period
▪ Individualism, Nationalism, Nature, Exoticism, and Revolution
▪ HP represents Heroism and Passion
o Realism Period
▪ I ID AoD period (The time that you identify the age of doubt)
▪ I: Industrialization
▪ ID: Individualism and Darwinism
▪ AoD: Age of Doubt
Classical Need to Know:
- Primary Religion: Polytheistic Ideas (Multiple Gods)
- Socrates: Socratic Method, Questions shared to solve problems in an open discussion.
- Poet’s address heroism, reason, love, and fate.
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, 9/13/24, 10:58 Intro to Humanities Notes NEED TO
AM KNOW
- Two popular poems: A Lament for Adonis and The Odyssey. They celebrate cultural
values of the heroic age.
- The Republic – Plato: People can think rationally, but they are predisposed to act on
their own self-interest. So, they should by ruled by a philosopher-king who makes
decisions based on reason and justice.
The Odyssey - Homer A Lament for Adonis - Sappho
Major themes consist of love, loyalty, Places human emotion at the center of
heroism, and polytheism. the poem rather than a god or goddess.
A poem based on Odysseus’ ten-year Uses intimate language to represent
struggle to return home. deeply personal emotions.
- Lyric Poetry: Intimate language for everyday objects.
- Classical theater included: foreshadowing, tragic irony, reversal of fortune, double
entendre, discovery, and use of a chorus. Tragedy was the predominant genre
performed.
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles Lysistrata - Aristophanes
The main character is adopted by a Depicts the stereotypes of both men and
Corinthian King and Queen women through each other’s eyes.
Main character brings about their own Lysistrata rallies the women of Greece to
downfall by persistently pursuing their withhold sex from their men to end the
curiosity. Peloponnesian War.
- Greek Architecture: Balance and Harmony. Columns, Capital supported the entablature,
carved friezes, and a roof that contains sculptures called pediments.
- Roman Architecture: The use of columns and arches. Used concrete faced with brick.
- Classical work modeled a relationship of cultural exchange and diversity.
- The Silk Road provided access to Asia and brought valuable Chinese good of silk to the
Romans.
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