Midterm Study Guide

Midterm Study Guide - Seated Course Only

IDENTIFICATIONS (20 points; select five out of eight)

Enkidu	Tiresias	Epic Poetry	Weltanschauung
Ixion	Carpe Diem	Anthropomorphism	Liminal Experience
Penny Wharvey	the Sirens	Anticleia	Epiphany
Alter Ego	Allegory	Apuleius	Ass-Lucius
Siduri	Big Dan Teague	The Sacrificed Man	the Utnapishtims

MATCHING QUESTIONS (30 points for 15 items)

Agamemnon	Circe	Calypso	Vernon T. Waldrup
Achilles	Shamash	Mentor	Tommy Johnson
Penelope	Dionysus	Voluptas	Xanthias
George Nelson	Bull of Heaven	Anu	Urshanabi
Telemachus	Ishtar	Polyphemus	Humbaba
Uruk	Prometheus	Shamhat	Ariston

SHORT ANSWER (20 pts; select only ONE)

Which deceas'd 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?

Compare the characters of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and of Ulysses Everett McGill. How are they similar, and how are they different? Discuss with particular regard to the Public Affairs Mission of Missouri State University.

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 The Golden Ass. How does this relationship affect what each katabasis story has to say about the afterlife, and why might these differences take place?