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CLT3378 Exam 2 Study GuideGilgamesh - king of Uruk; treats his people badly; built walls around city of Unug; kills Humbaba; wants to become immortal; 2/3 divine, 1/3 human; son of goddess Ninsun and father LugalbandaUnug - city where Gilgamesh livesAkkadian - spoke Hebrew-like languages; not as advanced as SumeriansUruk - city where Gilgamesh lives (according to Akkadians)Bilgames - Sumerian name for Gilgamesh; possible that Buluqiya was derived from BilgamesNinsun - goddess; mother of GilgameshLugalbanda - King of Unug before Gilgamesh took over; mortal human, but was deified (becamea god after he died)Epic of Gilgamesh - 12 tablets; Babylonian; Utnapishtim flood myth on part of tablet 11Belit-ili - aka Mami/Nintu; forms Gilgamesh's body with stature and beautyEnkidu - created by Aruru (Belit-ili) after Anu asked; Gilgamesh's 2nd self (equal); made from lump of clay and wilderness; hairy, wild, uncivilized; becomes more civilized after sleeping withShamhat for 6 days and 7 nights; dies after gods agree he must die for killing Humbaba and the Bull of HeavemSecond Self - equivalent to hero; 2nd self always dies (excluding Wiglaf in Beowulf)Shamhat - prostitute; sleeps with Enkidu for 6 days and 7 nights; later cursed (which is then lifted) by EnkiduIshtar - goddess of sexual desire and war; daughter of Anu; wants to sleep with Gilgamesh but is rejected and sends Bull of HeavenHumbaba - giant; protector of the pine forest (given by Ellil); killed by Gilgamesh; says deathbed curseEllil - god of earth and wind; made Utnapishtim immortalShamash - sun god; sends 4 winds to Gilgamesh to kill HumbabaBull of Heaven - bull sent by Ishtar to destroy city of Uruk; killed by Gilgamesh while Enkidu held his tailUtnapishtim - immortal human who lives at earths edge (underworld-like place); tells Gilgameshof flood; gives him sleep test; offers plant that restores youthSiduri - alewife (beer seller); tells Gilgamesh to find UrshanabiUrshanabi - ferryman across sea; Gilgamesh's guide to Utnapishtim and back home to UrukApsu - binatural fresh water god, lover of Tiamat; First in Babylonian creation; plant that restores youth in Gilgamesh is at the bottom of the ApsuRing composition - begin and end with same thing; Uruk's walls to Uruk's walls in GilgameshNature - represents Enkidu: wilderness = natureCulture - represents Gilgamesh: city = culture; culture triumphs over natureStructuralism - modern critical theory; the human mind thinks of things in binary opposites (love+hate, nature+culture)Tale of Buluqiya - one of 300 stories in the Thousand and One NightsThe Thousand and One Nights: - aka Arabian Nights; Arabic collection of stories told by ScheherazadeArabian Nights - another name for "The Thousand and One Nights"Arabic: - Arab languageIslam - the religious faith of muslimsSassanid - Empire that claimed decent from the Persian empireFrame story - SassaniansShahriar - the Sultan; had the Sultaness killed because she was commiting adultury; begins marrying virgins and killing them the next morningSultan - king; had the Sultaness killed because she was commiting adultury; begins marrying virgins and killing them the next morningVizier - right hand man, trustee; high official in Muslim countries; father of ShahrazadScheherazade - vizier's daughter; volunteers to marry the sultan to stop murders; tells 300 stories in Thousand and One NightsShahrazad - vizier's daughter; volunteers to marry the sultan to stop murders; tells 300 stories in Thousand and One NightsSulaiman - dead prophet who originally has ring (which gives wearer god-like power) on his finger in a tomb on Isle of 7 SeasIsle of Seven Seas - where ring is (on finger of Sulaiman in tomb)Yamlika - queen; narrator to Hasib; tries to talk Affan and Buluquiya out of getting the ring; suggests a plant that gives eternal youth, but not immortalityAffan - sage; Buluquiya's guide; turns to dust/dies after Buluqiya says protection spell backwardsHasib - Yamlika is narrating to HasibImbedded narrative - story within a story; represented in The Tale of Buluqiya (when Queen Yamlika is narrator to Hasib)Allah - muslim name for god; monotheisticTrojan War - 10 year long battle between the Trojans and GreeksPeleus - mortal King of Phthia; husband of Thetis; father of Achilles; humanThetis - wife of Peleus; Nereid (sea nymph, daughter of sea god); mother of AchillesEris - goddess of strife and discord; crashes wedding of Peleus and Thetis because she was not invited; rolls a golden apple on the ground and says its for the most beautiful woman; Zeus won'tdecide; Paris decides (chooses Aphrodite)Hera - goddess of marriage; offers Paris political powerAthena - goddess of wisdom; offers Paris military gloryAphrodite - goddess of love and beauty; offers Paris the most beautiful woman in the world; Paris gives apple to herParis - aka Alexander; shepherd; prince of Troy; gives apple to Aphrodite; steals? HelenAlexander - aka ParisTroy - city where Trojan war took place between Trojans and GreeksMenelaus - King of Sparta; husband of HelenHelen - most beautiful woman in the world; wife to King Menelaus; Queen of Sparta; stolen by ParisSparta - Greek city; Menelaus and Helen (before she goes to Troy) ruleXenos - greek word for guest/host; Paris breaches hospitality after stealing HelenXenia - greek word for hospitality; Paris breaches hospitality after stealing HelenAgamemnon - brother of Menelaus; king of Mycenae; leads Greeks in warMycenae - city in Greece run by king AgamemnonHomer - wrote the IliadIliad - epic poem about Ilium (Troy)Ilium - word meaning Troyin medias res - latin for "in the middle of things"; written by Horace, Roman poet; beginning of 9th year of Trojan WarGreeks - called themselves Hellenes (post Homeric)Hellenes - what Greeks called themselvesAchaeans - what Homer called the GreeksApollo - god of music; pro-trojan; disguises himself as Agenor to lure Achilles away from Trojan walls; sends plague to Greeks until Chryseis is returned to ChrysesChryses - priest of Apollo; father of Chryseis; tried to ransom for his daughter (Agamemnon refuses); prays to Apollo to send plague until he gets his daughter backChryseis - daughter of Chryses; Agamemnon's war prizeCalchas - Greek seer; says that Agamemnon must give Chryses his daughter (Chryseis) back or else the plague sent by Apollo will not be liftedGeras/gerata - war prizes/spoils of war; the more gerata = more time (tim-ay) meaning honorTime (Tim-ay) - means honor; many wanted honor while


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