Who's Who in LLT 180 (potential ID questions in red for Unit 1; green for Unit 2; purple for Unit 3)

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Achilles

Alighieri, Dante
Poet and protagonist of the Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso). Scholar and all around public affairs-type guy.

Anticleia
Odysseus's mother, whom he consults in the underworld, and who explains to him what happens when a human being dies.

Calypso
Name means 'the hider" in ancient Greek. Goddess who rescues the shipwrecked Odysseus and tries to keep him

Circe (1)

Circe (2)

Humbaba
The monstrous guardian of the Cedar Forest, slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu on their quest to get wood.

Ishtar
All-purpose Sumerian goddess with a habit of taking mortal men as her lovers and then doing evil things to them. She hits on Gilgamesh and gets massively disrespected for her trouble. Bad career move.

Penelope

Trout, Kilgore
Science fiction writer who appears in several of Vonnegut's novels, generally as an alter ego. In Breakfast of Champions, he is very clearly the alter ego of Dwayne Hoover.

Shamhat
In Gilgamesh, the "harlot" who lures Enkidu out of the wild, takes his virginity, and teaches him the ways of civilized human beings.

Siduri
The barmaid at the edge of the world who shared with Gilgamesh the Mesopotamian version of the carpe diem speech.

Utnapishtim, Mr. and Mrs.

Vergil
Poet of the Aeneid and Dante's guide in the Inferno.



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