Origins
Elements
Characters
Authors
Contexts
100
He was created by the joining of fresh and salt water.
Who is Marduk?
100
It is the last element of a story's plot.
What is the denouement (untying/unknotting)?
100
He lived for 950 years.
Who is Noah?
100
"...I was in love with love…"
Who is St. Augustine?
100
It begins in Sumer and the ancient city of Uruk.
What is "Gilgamesh"?
200
It was derived from a much longer work called, "The Mahabharata."
What is The Bhagavad-Gita.
200
These are Gregory Orr's "Four Temperaments of Poetry"
What are Narrative, Structure, Music, & Imagination?
200
Long before the Bible becomes a book, he builds an ark, preserves animals, and survives a flood.
Who is Utnapishtim?
200
"Who's the dedicatee of my new witty / Booklet, all fresh-polished with abrasive?
Who is Catullus
200
During the time of St. Augustine, this was split in two: Eastern & Western.
What is the Roman Empire?
300
The Daodejing emerged from this culture and period.
What is the Zhou Dynasty (12th-3rd century BC)?
300
Aristotle placed many dramatic special effects into this evaluative criterion.
What is Spectacle?
300
Krishna advises him on a battlefield.
Who is Arjuna?
300
"I'd rather take my place behind a shield three times than go through childbirth once."
Who is Euripides?
300
Sappho's Island.
What is Lesbos?
400
The earliest known writing system.
What is cuneiform
400
Synonyms for hero and villain.
What are protagonist and antagonist?
400
In the Qu'ran, his disciples ask him to ask God for a feast so that they may eat from it and be reassured.
Who is Jesus?
400
"I simply want to be dead."
Who is Sappho?
400
Muhammad was born in the early 7th century in this city.
What is Mecca?
500
Setting of the Enuma Elish
What is Babylon?
500
In the Daodejing, it is 1st person omniscient.
What is point of view or narrative perspective?
500
He was a pear thief.
Who was St. Augustine?
500
"It is You we worship; it is You we ask for help."
Who is Muhammad?
500
This Roman emperor was the subject of a poem by Cattalus, who also wrote of Lesbia, Furius, Aurelius, and himself.
Who was Julius Caesar?
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