AA100B Key Terms

Book 3: Cultural Encounters

Chapter 1: The Art of Benin I

1. History 7. Oral society

2. Myth 8. Oral narratives
3. Primary source 9. Punitive expedition
4. Secondary source 10. Fetish
5. ‘Lost wax’ method 11. ‘Golden Age’ of Benin Art
6. Oba

Chapter 3: Cultural Encounters and Cultural Exemptions

1. Culture 10. Matters of choice

2. Cultural encounter 11. Argument by analogy
3. Cultural diversity 12. Unequal impact argument
4. Discrimination 13. Autonomy argument
5. Liberalism 14. Cultural resources argument
6. Liberty 15. Cultural exemption
7. Individualism 16. Difference-blind liberalism
8. Equality 17. Self-determination
9. Matters of chance 18. Rule and exemption approach

Chapter 6: Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes

1. Dithyramb 14. Agon

2. Tragedy 15. Messenger speech
3. Tragic hero 16. Rhesis
4. Catharsis 17. Satyr play
5. Hamartia 18. Natural laws
6. Hubris 19. Laws of man
7. Prologos 20. Translation
8. Parodos 21. Version
9. Stasima 22. Chorus
10. Epeissodes 23. Mask
11. Exodus 24. Orchestra
12. Rhesis 25. Skene
13. Stichomythia 26. Sophocles
Book 4: Place and Leisure
Chapter 1: Leisure, Purpose, and the Meaning of Life

12. Philosophy 19. Nicomachean Ethics

13. Leisure 20. Eudaimonia
14. Right 21. Work
15. Experience Machine 22. Play
16. Thought Experiment 23. Function Argument
17. Ethics 24. Ataraxia
18. Metaphysics

Chapter 2: Sacred Space and Landscape

19. Religion 29. Glastonbury

20. Myth 30. Paganism
21. Ritual 31. Druid
22. Pilgrimage 32. The Holy Grail
23. Sacred 33. New Age Traveler
24. Profane 34. Ley Lines
25. Theophany 35. The Summer Solstice
26. Hierophany 36. The Winter Solstice
27. Stonehenge 37. Atlantis Theory
28. Avebury

Chapter 3: Leisure in the Roman Villa

27. Villa 34. Negotium

28. Villa Culture 35. Patronage / Clientship
29. Quies 36. ‘Carpe Diem’
30. Maecenas 37. Vignettes
31. The Sabine Hills Villa 38. Archaeology
32. Mercury 39. Fresco
33. Otium