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| 7848300443 | anagorism | the moment of recognition in a tragedy/ movement from ignorance or pride to self knowledge | 0 | |
| 7848319474 | arete | excellence particular to one thing | 1 | |
| 7848322665 | catharsis | emotional purgation felt by the audience of a tragedy | 2 | |
| 7848326995 | chthonic | the underground world; the subconscious; the mythic dimension; the collective unconscious | 3 | |
| 7848335811 | chorus | represents the community; plays it safe/the tragic hero is isolated from the community | 4 | |
| 7848358120 | dike | the law of the gods; pure justice; the balance of things | 5 | |
| 7848366968 | erinyes | the furies, female earth-powers who avenge wrongs, especially of innocent women | 6 | |
| 7848386827 | Eudaimonia | the deep happiness that comes from living virtuously and moving toward one's telos throughout life; the happiness that comes from the accumulated momentum of responsible excellence that one has built through living one's life; the richest and happiness possible for a human, attaining profound quantities of internal, external, and narrative goods | 7 | |
| 7848427866 | hamartia | the tragic flaw, usually hubris | 8 | |
| 7854254128 | hubris | pride in self that violates the prerogative of the gods; produces incomprehensible nameless suffering | 9 | |
| 7854552775 | lex talionis | law of the talon; i.e.., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; blood revenge | 10 | |
| 7854552776 | liminal | having to do with thresholds from one world to another | 11 | |
| 7854558820 | logos | the word; the power of argument and logic and the enfleshment of thought in language | 12 | |
| 7854628162 | physis | the forces of nature; unrestricted passion | 13 | |
| 7854633260 | moira | individual fate | 14 | |
| 7854637704 | nomos | human laws instituted by a city; designated distinction between polis and physis | 15 | |
| 7854673564 | ob skena | off stage; violent events too terrible to look at take place there | 16 | |
| 7854677049 | oikos | the household; center of family | 17 | |
| 7854679381 | ontology | that which questions the meaning or reason for being itself | 18 | |
| 7854683009 | peripeteia | the moment of reversal in a tragedy | 19 | |
| 7854686667 | polis | the good city of man ruled by law | 20 | |
| 7854689690 | sophrosyne | balanced in life; the "golden mean," all things in proportion | 21 | |
| 7854693408 | telos | the end toward which community or an individual wishes to go; teleological questions ask "what do we wish as people or as a community to become or accomplish in the end?" | 22 | |
| 7854744025 | themis | right balance (connected with nature and linked to ecology) | 23 |
