the Common Era
Thematic Elements
Symbolic Archetypes
Tragic!
Exile!
100

This is the first work of the Common Era that we studied

What is the New Testament?

100

The Tragedy of Hamlet shows the damaging effects of pursuing this thematic element

What is revenge?

100

This symbolic archetype represents the feminine and the womb

What is a cave?

100

She is a rare example of a female tragic hero in Ancient Greece.

Who is Medea?

100

This character was exiled to the forest for 14 years

Who is Rama?

200

This second-oldest text was not discovered by Europeans until the Common Era

What is the Popol Vuh?

200

The Epic of Gilgamesh provides the earliest example of a hero seeking this (impossible?) goal:

What is immortality?

200

This archetype represents a spirtual journey towards enlightenment

What is a mountain?

200

This tragic hero is known for his indecision

Who is Hamlet?

200

This character was exiled from Colchis, Iolcus, and Thebes

Who is Medea?

300

This text is the third religious in the following succession: The Old Testament, The New Testament, ____ . 

What is the Koran?

300

Leslie Marmon Silko's work emphasizes the importance of people maintaining harmony with:

nature, the natural world

300

This season represents rebirth and new beginnings

What is spring?

300

This tragedy features two examples of deus ex machina

What is Medea?

300

This character claimed to have been an exile from Heaven

Who is Li Po?

400

The Divine Comedy features these two poets as characters. 

Who are Dante and Virgil?

400

Many heroes of the ancient world share this, if you examine their alleged family lines:

What is divine lineage?

400

This type of water symbolizes movement from one state of being to another. 

What is a river or stream?

400

If an epic hero is aspirational, then a tragic hero is: 

Cautionary

400

This character's "exile" was caused by Poseidon

Who is Odysseus?

500

These three Romantic poets are also considered Modern poets: 

Who are Whitman, Dickinson, and Baudelaire?

500

Utpanishtim attained immortality via

divine intervention

500

This archetype symbolizes the threat of the unknown

What is the forest?

500

Tragic heros have these three traits:

1. high status

2. tragic flaw

3. downfall

500
While not technically an exile, this character was not allowed to enter Purgatorio or Paradiso

Who is Virgil