Classical Studies 2200 Midterm: Classics Midterm 2 Notes
25 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
A timeline/features of a typical greek hero"s life: one divine parent and one human parent, an oftentimes unusual birth story, for example: heracles is a twin, his brother, iphikles, is mortal, and heracles is the son of. Cunieform, using a wedge-typed instrument inserted on clay tablets (see photo from lecture notes, lecture 9 p2) The epic of gilgamesh: half mortal, half immortal : lugalbanda, the mortal king, and ninsun, a goddess, although it is said that gilgamesh had more of his mother in him, making him 2/3 divine and. Ghts: driven by ambition due to his divine nature. He is entitled and con dent: the gods provide enkidu, a hairy and wild man associated with socializing with the animals and being an animal himself. In an attempt to civilize him, he is sent a holy prostitute who dedicates her life to the goddess of love, ishtar from the gods to tame him via the touch of a woman.
