Enki-do or Enki-don't
Enkidu interprets Gilgamesh's scary dreams.
What is Enki-do?
Catullus wishes he was this pet of his lover, Lesbia.
What is a sparrow?
Gilgamesh and Enkidu encounter this guardian when they venture into the cedar forest.
Who is Humbaba?
Gilgamesh is the king of this city in Ancient Mesopotamia.
"To whom will I give this sophisticated,
abrasively accomplished new collection?
To you, Cornelius!"
Who is Catullus?
Enkidiu travels with Gilgamesh to visit Utnapishtim who lives with his wife.
What is Enki-don't?
In Poem 31, Sappho says that "He seems to me equal to gods that man." What does this man have that Sappho does not?
What is Sappho's ex-lover?
While a number of his men meet this fate, Odysseus isn't turned into a pig by this lady.
Who is Circe?
Every human act "bears fruit." Whether these acts are good or bad determines who you will be in your next life. This is a core tenet of Buddhism and Hinduism.
What is karma?
"Come Gilgamesh, you shall be my bridegroom!
Give, oh give me of your lusciousness!
You shall be my husband and I shall be your wife.
Who is Ishtar?
When Enkidu lies on his deathbed, he curses Shamhat for "civilizing" him, and doesn't ever forgives her before he dies.
What is Enki-don't?
This word in Greek means the rituals surrounding the idea of hospitality.
What is xenia?
Odysseus tells the Phaeacians about his journey to the Underworld, where he meets this friend whose wife has betrayed him and had him killed--this is a story that is referred to multiple times in The Odyssey as a warning to Odysseus and his own family.
Who is Agamemnon?
The Greeks and the Indians both invented this narrative with the same ideas and the same moral at the same time--the middle of the first millennium B.C.E. before they had any direct contact with each other in historical times.
What is "The Golden Goose" or "The Man and the Golden Egg?"
"Now Eurycleia, make the bed for him
outside the room he built himself. Pull out
the bedstead, and spread quilts and blankets on it."
Who is Penelope?
They call him "The one born in the steppe."
Who is Enkidu?
Catullus is professing this concept when he tells Lesbia in Poem 3 that the two of them should "live only for loving...until we have run up our thousands."
What is "seize the day" or carpe diem?
Telemachus first goes to Pylos to meet Nestor and then travels to Sparta to meet Menelaus, the husband of this woman, who sparked the Trojan War.
Who is Helen?
Shamhat says to Enkidu, "Eat the ________, the staff of life,
Drink the __________, the custom of the land. Both of these are products of a civilized society.
What is bread and beer?
...not possible to happen
...to pray to share
...unexpected
Who is Sappho?
Ishtar sends the Bull of Heaven after Gilgamesh insults her. Enkidu and Gilgamesh make short work of the creature and as a final insult, Enkidu rips off the creature's haunch and flings it at Ishtar.
What is Enki-do?
Sappho's prayer to the Greek goddess of love starts off by describing Aphrodite as?
What is "deathless."
Siduri, a character who meets Gilgamesh, operates this establishment at the end of the earth.
What is a tavern?
This person is not civilized because he "did not go to visit other people, but kept apart, and did not know the ways of custom." He also had "crates weighed down with cheese, and pens crammed full of lambs."
"Nor sesame, nor beans, nor rice have I as food to give,
But roast with fire my flesh I yield, if thou with us wouldst live"
Who is the hare from The Jataka Tales?