Characters
Plot
Hero Cycle
Background
Quotes
100
The Protagonist.
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, or Resolution: The killing of Humbaba.
What is the Climax?
100
Part of the Hero Cycle that falls under: Gilgamesh was born 1/3 man and 2/3 god.
What is an unusual birth?
100
The rivers that Mesopotamia sits between.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100
"Who is this that has violated my wood and cut down my cedar?"
Who is Humbaba?
200
Partner of Gilgamesh. Helps in the killing of Humbaba.
Who is Enkidu?
200
Event that starts the Falling Action.
What is the death of Enkidu?
200
Part of the Hero Cycle that falls under: Killing Humbaba, Killing the Bull of Heaven.
What is being tested again and again?
200
Present day Uruk.
What is Iraq?
200
"Do not listen, Gilgamesh: this Humbaba must die. Kill Humbaba first and his servants after."
Who is Enkidu?
300
Wants to use the Bull of Heaven to kill Gilgamesh.
Who is Ishtar?
300
Gilgamesh travels in the Darkness for 12 leagues here.
What is the Underworld?
300
The kind of supernatural help that Shamash gave to Gilgamesh.
What are dreams?
300
The year in which "The Epic of Gilgamesh" was written.
What is 2700 B.C.E?
300
"There is no permanence."
Who is Utnapishtim?
400
Father of the gods.
Who is Anu?
400
Total number of casualties that the Bull of Heaven causes by snorting.
What is 600?
400
Name all fives steps of the Hero Cycle.
What is an unusual birth, a quest/journey, divine help, being tested again and again, and being given a spiritual reward upon death?
400
"The Epic of Gilgamesh" was found on stone tablets written in this form.
What is cuneiform?
400
"This one who comes to us now is flesh of the gods. Two thirds is god but one third is man."
Who is the Scorpion-Man?
500
Creator of Enkidu.
Who is Aruru?
500
The name that Gilgamesh gives to the flower that bestows eternal life.
What is "The Old Men Are Young Again?"
500
The number of actual steps to the Hero Cycle. (Mr. Parson taught us 5.)
What is 12?
500
The definition of Agrarian Age.
What is a time in which people could cultivate their own crops?
500
"No mortal man has gone this way before, nor will, as long as the winds drive over the sea."
Who is Shamash?
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