Early Works
Anu granted him the totality of knowledge of all. He saw the Secret, discovered the Hidden, he brought information of (the time) before the Flood. He went on a distant journey, pushing himself to exhaustion, but then was brought to peace.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet 1
What was an important part of civic life for the Greeks?
Theatre
Like the ********* that's gleaming red on the topmost bough,right at the very end, that the apple-pickers forgot,or rather didn't forget, but were just unable to reach.
Like the hyacinth on the hills that the passing shepherdstrample under their feet, and the purple bloom on the ground
Sappho
Like the sweet apple
What is the main subject of the epic poetry of the Greeks?
Gods and goddesses.
How do the women in the Epic of Gilgamesh move the story forward?
They give the characters purpose and they tie them together.
“It’s wrong, my friend, to send any stranger packing— even one who arrives in worse shape than you. Every stranger and beggar comes from Zeus and whatever scrap they get from the likes of us, they’ll find it welcome. That’s the best we can do,
Homer
The Odyssey
Book 14
The swineherd
Enkidu stalked and hunted down the Bull of Heaven. He grasped it by the thick of its tail and held onto it with both his hands (?), while Gilgamesh, like an expert butcher, boldly and surely approached the Bull of Heaven.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet 6
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns … driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.
Homer
The Odyssee
Book 1
Come, goddess, to your holy shrine,
where your delightful apple grove
awaits, and altars smoke with frankincense.
A cool brook sounds through apple boughs,
and all's with roses overhung;
from shimmering leaves a trancelike sleep takes hold.
Sappho
Come, goddess
'Reed house, reed house! Wall, wall! O man of Shuruppak, son of Ubartutu: Tear down the house and build a boat! Abandon wealth and seek living beings! 43 Spurn possessions and keep alive living beings!
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet 11
The Great Flood
Why was Einkdu created?
To calm and balance Gilgamesh.
When spring comes forth
That lay in hiding all the winter through,
The birds that did not sing
Come back and sing to us once more
Princess Nukata
Myriad Leaves
How does Poseidon fulfill the prophecy from book 8?
He turns the Phaeacian ship that carried Odysseus to Ithaca to stone just as it sails into the harbor.
What does the Eagle Dream in the Odyssey represent?
Foreshadowing
It seemed indeed that his indiscretions might have given him a name for frivolity, and he did what he could to hide them. But his most secret affairs (such as the malicious work of the gossips) became common talk.
Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
Chapter 2