Test 01 Study Guide

IDENTIFICATIONS (24 points; select four out of eight)

Enkidu
 Shamhat
 Sacrificed Man
 Weltanschauung
Siduri
 Carpe Diem
 Cupid
 Liminal Experience
Ass-Lucius
 Utnapishtim
 Anticleia Allegory

MATCHING QUESTIONS (26 points for 13 items)

Aphrodite
 Ceres
 Calypso
 Penelope
Tantalus
 Shamash
 Humbaba
 Cerberus
Tiresias
 Bull of Heaven
 Enlil
 Uruk
Charon
 Sisyphus
 Achilles
 Dionysus
Euripides
 Aeschylus
 Urshanabi
 Styx

SHORT ANSWER (20 pts)

Which cultural figure (writer, artist, performer, composer) from the last 100 years would YOU go on a katabasis to bring back? Why did you select this cultural figure, and what would you want this cultural figure to accomplish?

ESSAY QUESTION  (30 points; select only ONE)
Describe the topology of the katabasis stories in Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, and the Frogs. What similarities exist between the physical descriptions, and what differences? What do you think causes these similarities and differences?

Describe the relationship between humans and deities in Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, and Cupid and Psyche. How does this relationship affect what each katabasis story has to say about the afterlife, and why might these differences take place?