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“There was a man / who saw the deep, the bedrock of the land / who knew the ways and learned all the things:”
What is Gilgamesh?
They took each other's hands and went to the forge where the blacksmiths sat, deep in discussion.
They forged great axes: axes of one hundred and twenty pounds each.
What is Axe?
"The Bull snorted, a pit opened up, and a hundred men of Uruk fell in. It snorted again, a pit opened up, and two hundred men of Uruk fell in."
What is Bull of Heaven?
What is Uruk
“Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, I am a man of smooth skin.”
Who is Jacob?
When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar top the altar.
What is Knife?
"When morning dawned, the angles urged Lot saying, 'Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of the city."
What is Sodom?
“‘Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account’”
Where is Egypt?
“Son of wise Atreus breaker of horses, are you sleeping?’ / He should not sleep night long who is a man burdened with counsels / and responsibility for a people and cares so numerous. / Listen quickly to what I say, since I am a messenger/ of Zeus, who far away cares much for you and is pitiful.”
Who is Dream?
Therefore I am your friend and host in the heart of Argos; you are mine in Lykia, when I come to your country. Let us avoid each other's spears, even in the close fighting. There are plenty of Trojans and famed companions in battle for me to kill, whom the gods send me, or those I run down with my swift feet, many Achaians for you to slaughter, if you can do it.
"[C]arrying across his shoulders the bow and the hooded quiver; and the shafts clashed on his shoulders of the god walking angrily. He came as night comes down and knelt then apart and opposite the ships and let go an arrow."
What is Apollo?
“He spoke, and Tydeus’ son gave backward, only a little, / avoiding the anger of him who strikes from afar, Apollo, / who caught Aineias now away from the onslaught, and set him/ in the sacred keep of Pergamos where was built his own temple.”
Where is Troy?
“Son of Atreus, give up your anger; even I entreat you to give over your bitterness against Achilleus”
Who is Agamemnon?
As when some Maionian woman or Karian with purple colors ivory, to make it cheek piece for horses;it lies away in an inner room, and many a rider longs to have it, but it is laid up to be a king’s treasure, two things, to be the beauty of the horse, the pride of the horseman: so, Menelaos, your shapely thighs were stained with the color of blood, and your legs also and the ankles beneath them.
What is Bow?
She broke the chinstrap, made from the hide of a slaughtered bullock, and the helmet came away empty in the heavy hand of Atreides...wrapped him in a thick mist and set him down again in his own perfumed bedchamber.
What is Aphrodite?
“ …his men beside the break of the sea-beach
Amused themselves with discs and with light spears for throwing And bows; and the horses, standing each beside his chariot, Champed their clover and the parsley that grows in wet places, Resting, while the chariots of their lords stood covered
In the shelters, and the men forlorn of their warlike leader Wandered here and there in the camp, and did no fighting.”
Where is the Achaian Camp?
“‘Of all the cities there are three that are dearest to my own heart: / Argos and Sparta and Mykenai of the wide ways.”
Who is Hera?
Sarpedon spoke, and his word bit into the heart of Hektor. Straighway in all his armor he sprang to the ground from his chariot shaking two sharp...ranged everywhere through the army stirring men up to fight and waking the hateful warfare;
What is Spear?
Now as, following her through the thick crowd, he caught her, lunging in his charge far forward the son of high-hearted Tides made a thrust against the soft hand with the bronze spear, and the spear tore the skin driven clean on through the immortal robe that the very graces had woven for her carefully, over the palm's base; and blood immortal flowed from the goddess, Ichor, that which runs in the veins of the blessed divinities.
Who is Diomedes?
Who is son of Tydeus?
“Meanwhile, the two went back again to the house of great Zeus, Hera of Argos, with Athene who stands by her people, after they stopped the murderous work of manslaughtering Ares.”
Where is Olympus?