Gilgamesh
He is Gilgamesh's companion, his equal.
Who is Enkidu?
She is the goddess of the harvest.
Who is Demeter?
The Iliad means, "about Troy", but this is a better title, more aptly describing the storyline (and Book I).
What is The Rage of Achilles?
"There Telemachus
Lay wrapped in a fleece all the night through,
Pondering the journey Athena had shown him."
In this Book.
What is Book I?
What is the 8th?
Huwawa guards this.
What is the Cedar Forest?
He killed the minotaur.
Who is Theseus?
These are the three goddesses involved in the Judgement of Paris.
Who are Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite?
"Then the women came,
Sent by Persephone, all those who had been
The wives and daughters of the heroes of old."
In this Book.
What is Book XI?
In 539 BC, Cyrus the Great defeats this kingdom, creating a massive Persian Empire.
What is Babylonia?
Gilgamesh is king in this city.
What is Uruk?
Who is Psyche?
In this book (number) Agamemnon sends an Embassy to Achilles begging him to return to fight.
What is Book IX?
To Nausicaa: "I implore you, Lady: Are you a goddess
Or mortal? If you are one of heaven's divinities
I think you are most like..."
this goddess, AND in this Book.
Who is Artemis and Book VI?
Word to describe very harsh penalties for laws, named after an Athenian legislator.
What is Draconian?
She asks Gilgamesh to marry her, but is rejected.
Who is Ishtar?
Jason and his crew are known as this.
Who are the Argonauts?
The Greek word for rage or wrath (one of our themes).
What is Menis?
"He sang of the passion
Between Ares and gold-crowned Aphrodite,
How they first made love in Hephaestus' house"
This Bard sings this AND in this Book.
Who is Demodocus and Book VIII?
Darius assimilates this kingdom (late 6th C) to the Persian Empire via a treaty.
What is Macedonia?
The unleashing of the Bull of Heaven brings this collateral problem for the people.
What are 7 years of famine?
She is one of the few female heroes in Greek Myth, involved in the Calydonian Boar hunt.
Who is Atalanta?
She is queen of Troy, wife of Priam, mother of Hector.
Who is Hecuba?
"His son you are trying to kill--and as for me,
You are causing me unspeakable distress.
Stop it, I tell you, and tell the others to stop."
This person speaks this AND in this Book.
Peisistratus (not Nestor's son) was an Athenian politician, leader of this group, reacting to Solon's reforms.
What are the Men of the Hills?