CLT3378 11 Exam 2 Review Terms Epic of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh king of Uruk arrogant and better than everyone else attitude Son of Ninsun and King Lugalbanda Unug another name for Uruk ancient Sumerian city Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh is an Akkadian myth Uruk where Gilgamesh is King city along the Euphrates river Bilgames another name for Gilgamesh the king of Uruk Ninsun goddess mother of Gilgamesh Lugalbanda name in Sumerian means young king is the second king of Uruk Epic of Gilgamesh an Akkadian myth written on 12 cuneiform tablets Belit ili goddess Mesopotamian creator goddess Enkidu Gilgamesh s second self very animalistic second self Enkidu is Gilgamesh s second self an equal in strength and stature Shamhat prostitute sleeps with Enkidu for 6 days and 7 nights makes him less animalistic and after rejoins society Ishtar wants to have sex with Gilgamesh but he rejects her goddess of fertility love war and sex Humbaba a giant protector of Pine Forest Ellil Ellil god of earth wind and air name of the chief deity in the Sumerian religion son of Anshar and Kisher Shamash sun god Shamash is the one that defends Enkidu when the gods decide to have him killed Bull of Heaven sent by Ishtar to punish Gilgamesh for turning her down runs free in Uruk destroying also brings 7 years of feminine to Uruk Utnapishtim Gilgamesh goes on a quest to find Utnapishtim who earned his own immortality Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh his flood story Utnapishtim gives Gilgamesh the sleep test which he fails so Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh to go to get the magical plant that restores youth in the water reservoir Siduri attempts to stop Gilgamesh on his quest for immortality urges him to be content with the simple pleasure in life Urshanabi ferryman the companion of Gilgamesh after Enkidu dies Apsu fresh water one of the primordial waters binatural Tale of Buluqiya Tale of Buluqiya one of the 300 stories from The Thousand and One Nights The Thousand and One Nights collection of 300 Arabic collection of stories Arabian Nights one of the 300 stories from The Thousand and One Nights Arabic The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Arabic stories One of the stories was Tale of Buluqiya Islam consider Muhammad to be the last prophet a monotheistic religion study the Quran Sassanid Empire 224 651 CE lived in near east frame story basically a story within a story an example would be the Arabian Tale of Buluqiya Queen Yamlika is narrating Tale of Buluqiya to Hasib which is within another story The Thousand and One Nights being narrated by Shahrazad to Shahriar Shahriar Sultan marries a virgin and kills her every night Sultan king Sultan Shahriar in The Thousand and One Nights Vizier right hand man of the Sultan Vizier s daughter Scheherazade marries the Sultan Scheherazade daughter of vizier volunteers to marry Sultan and tells him The Thousand and One Nights Shahrazad another name for the daughter of the vizier aka Scheherazade Tale of Buluqiya one of the 300 stories from The Thousand and One Nights about Buluqiya and his gold box Sulaiman prophet who has the ring that has power over all living things Isle of Seven Seas Bulaqiya has to cross to get to the ring Yamlika Queen Yamlika lives in underground knows where the plant sap is Affan guide to Bulaqiya Affan goes into tomb to get the ring and Bulaqiya says the spell backwards and Affan turns into dust Hasib queen Yamlika narrate the Tale of Bulaqiya to Hasib imbedded narrative a story within a story Allah the word means God is used in the Islamic religion Achilles Trojan War a war lasting 10 years between the Greeks and the Trojans this war is in both the Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Peleus married to Thetis father of Achilles Thetis mother of Achilles dipped Achilles in the River of Styx making him invulnerable except for his heel Eris parents are Zeus and Hera goddess of strife Hera wife and one of the 3 sister of Zeus goddess of women and marriage Athena goddess of wisdom courage civilization parents are Zeus and Metis Aphrodite goddess of love beauty and pleasure born when Cronus cut of Uranus s genital and threw them into the sea Paris of Troy son of Priam King of Troy He fatally wound Achilles with an arrow to his heel Alexander another name for Paris see above Troy located in northwest Anatolia modern day Turkey it s where the Trojan war took place Menelaus king of Sparta husband of Helen of Troy brother is Agememnon Helen daughter of Zeus and Leda wife of Menelaus her abduction by Paris started the Trojan War Sparta where Menelaus was king city state in ancient Greece Xenos Greek word meaning enemy stranger as well as ritual friend used by Homer Xenia a Greek concept of Hospitality to those who are traveling Agamemnon admits that the Greeks need Achilles sends gifts to Achilles Mycenae most powerful city in Greece Agamemnon is King Homer wrote the Iliad and The Odyssey ancient Greek epic poet Iliad written by Homer set during the Trojan War Ilium another name for the ancient city of Troy hence the title of Homer s Iliad in medias res Latin meaning in the middle of things Greeks aka Hellenes speak Greek language from the homeland Greece Hellenes aka Greeks see above Achaeans one of the names used collectively for the Greeks in Homer s Iliad and The Odyssey Apollo parents are Zeus and Leto god of light medicine healing music poetry Chryses was a priest of Apollo at Chryse near the city of Troy Chryseis a Trojan woman daughter of Chryses Agememnon enslaves her as a war prize Calchas interpreted the flight pattern of birds which is a gift he received from Apollo son of Thestor geras gerata Greek for spoil of war war prize tim honor gerata alive the more gerata the more time honor Achilles Greek hero of the Trojan war parents are Thetis and Peleus Briseis Achilles war prize Achilles tells Agamemnon to give Chryseis back so that the curse will be lifted off of the Greeks and they can stop dying Agamemnon says this isn t fair if he must lose time so must Achilles so he takes Briseis away from Achilles Nestor King of Pylos He became king after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor s siblings Myrmidons Achilles men brave skilled warriors who were lead by Achilles in the Trojan War Achilles I The Trojan War Zeus king of the gods neutral not on the Greek Roman side of the war menis the first word of Book 1 of Homer s Iliad about the Trojan War it means rage it relates to Achille s rage Achilles II Outline of Books Iliad Book 9 embassy gifts Agamemnon sends
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