MIdterm Study Guide - LLT 180.750 iCourse

IDENTIFICATIONS (24 points; select five out of eight)

Enkidu
 Tiresias
 The Dead Dude
 Weltanschauung
Siduri
 Carpe Diem
 Anthropomorphism
 Liminal Experience
Allegory
 the Utnapishtims
 Anticleia Epiphany
Ass-Lucius
 Alter Ego
 Dionysus
 Cupid

MATCHING QUESTIONS (26 points for 13 items)

Argos
 Euripides
 Calypso
 Aeschylus
Achilles
 Shamash
 Penelope
 Voluptas
Charon
 Bull of Heaven
 Anu
 Mentor
Telemachus
 Ishtar
 Polyphemus
 Humbaba
Uruk
 Circe
 Shamhat
 Urshanabi

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?