The Epic of Gilgamesh Babylonian The Tale of Buluqiya from The Thousand and One Nights Arabian The Story of Sidi Nouman from The Thousand and One Nights Arabian The Story of Nadilla Arabian The Iliad Homer Greek Beowulf Anglo Saxon The Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson Norse Scandinavian The Protestation of Guiltlessness Egyptian Isis and Osiris Plutarch Egyptian or Greek an Egyptian work by a Greek author Nergal and Ereshkigal Babylonian Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld Babylonian The Odyssey Homer Greek Review Terms Gilgamesh The king of Uruk Sumerian king goes on a quest for immortality 2 3 immortal Lugalbanda King of Uruk becomes immortal after his death husband of Ninsun Ninsun goddess mother of Gilgamesh compared to a cow Nintu Belet ili Mami Mother goddess created Enkidu but also had a hand in creating Gilgamesh making him 2 3 divine Uruk City that Gilgamesh is king of Walls made of brick they are Gilgamesh s claim to fame Has the epic of Gilgamesh inside of it Enkidu wild man made out of clay created by Nintu as a counterpart for Gilgamesh Shamhat priestess of Ishtar example of sacred prostitution tames Enkidu with 6 days and 7 nights of sex Humbaba Ugly demon monster thing that guards the cedar forests Despised by Shamash and killed by Enkidu and Gilgamesh Shamash Sun god Despises Humbaba and asks Gilgamesh and Enkidu to kill him Gives Gilgamesh winds as weapons against Humbaba Ishtar sex goddess who wants Gilgamesh to have sex with her he refuses so she sends the Bull of Heaven Threatens to raise the dead to eat the living Bull of Heaven sent by Ishtar starts to destroy Uruk Gil and Enkidu must kill it in doing so they ve killed a creation of heaven and the gods decide that one of them must die they decide on Enkidu Mt Mashu Landmark for the end of the world He must journey through the utter darkness symbolic of him journeying through death Siduri Ale wife at the ale house at the end of the world Warns Gil about the poisonous waters while he sails to Utnapishtim s island Ur shanabi wife of utnapishtim Also immortal Bakes bread for every day that Gilgamesh is asleep Buluqiya Bulukiya A character in a story in The Thousands and One Nights His father the king dies making Buluqiya king He finds a magic ring that gives you power over plants animals and Jinn genie Looking for immortality Shahriar He s the king in One Thousand and One Nights he marries a woman every day and kills her at night Shahrazad Scheherazade Latest wife of Shahriar tells the thousand and one nights and ends every story on a cliff hanger so that the king will not kill her Sulaiman Solomon his tomb is where Buluqiya goes to find the fountain of youth His tomb is protected by many spells Affan Wise man who accompanies Buluqiya to Solomon s tomb Dies when Buluqiya says the spell backwards and gets molten diamond poured on his head Queen Yamlika Gives Buluqiya the magic plant that enables him to walk on water in order to walk around the 7 isles muttaliku wanderer in Sumerian They are the harmless ghosts that are trapped on earth Ekimmu hungry spirit eat the living They are the ones that Ishtar continually threatens to raise Amina a ghoul Feasts on corpses rather than on the living She s a sorceress and turns her husband into a dog Nadilla a vampire AT motif 251 vampire feeds only on the living Sidi Nouman Husband on Amina he gets turned into a dog and must rely on a friendly sorceress to turn him back into a human He turns Amina into a horse and it beating her in the beginning or the tale Homer author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Iliad Story of the Trojan war in which the tale of Achilles is held Trojan War War fought between the Trojans and the greeks over the hand of Helen Judgment of Paris Paris must decide if Hera Athena or Aphrodite is the fairest of the goddesses Aphrodite promises him the hand of the most beautiful woman in the world so he gives her the golden apple and she gives him Helen Helen Wife of Menelaus gets taken by Paris and is the most beautiful woman in the world Agamemnon Brother of Menelaus leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war He takes Cryseis as geras and must return her to lift the plague so he takes Briseis from Achilles Achilles Greatest warrior of the greeks Son of Thetis and Peleus His fate is tied to that of Hector so when he kills Hector Achilles seals his death menin First word of the Iliad means rage which references the rage of Achilles and of Menelaus King and husband of Helen Begins the Trojan war when Paris takes Helen to Troy geras gerata spoils of war Example would be Chryseis and Briseis as well as armor and riches Time honor while you re alive and in order to get more time you acquire more geras kleos honor after death More time when you re alive means more kleos after death Chryseis Daughter of the priest of Apollo from Troy Agamemmnon originally takes Chryseis as plunder but must return her in order to lift the plague from Apollo Briseis Geras of Achilles When Chryseis is returned to Troy Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles This is what forces Achilles to leave the Greek forces Thetis Mother goddess of Achilles she acquires new armor for Achilles after his armor is lost when Patroclus dies Nestor Elderly adviser of Agamemmnon advises him to return Briseis and when Agamemnon refuses Nestor tells him to send an assembly to try and convince Achilles to come back to the war Odysseus One of the demigods that helped fight in the Trojan war He convinces Achilles to join the war after he finds Achilles dressed up as a woman and trying to hide on the Isle of woman He s the cleverest of the great warriors Patroclus Cousin best friend lover of Achilles He donned the armor of Achilles and fought in the trojan war He got killed by Hector and Achilles refused to bury the body Hector Prince of Troy kills patroclus and Achilles didn t let the body go back to troy until Priam comes to beg for his body Priam father of Hector begs Achilles to return Hector s body ash letter that was left out of the English alphabet is the AE in Aesir thorn the p looking letter that was left out of the English alphabet Eth looks like a d with a line through the top and is a letter left out of the English alphabet kenning an old English riddle examples of which would be calling the ocean the whales path Shield Sheafson King whose funeral is told at the beginning of Beowulf The funeral at the beginning of the story and Beowulf s at the end is an example of ring structure Hrothgar King of the Danes
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