Gilgamesh Prologue
- Epic- long narrative epic poem about legendary heroes. People used epics to see how they were supposed to behave, heroes were sort of role models.
- Ilad was made in Greece 4000 years ago
- Gilgamesh was made in Mesopotamia 3000 years ago
- Beowulf was made in England 1500 years ago
- The story is Gilgamesh who ruled Uruk. He seems like a good character because he has built cities for his people in the name of the gods. Kings are good people who protect society
- Uruk is a city that survives and holds its ground.
- Ishtar is Babylonian goddess of love
The Illiad
excerpt:
- Achian is another name for Greeks
- Hektor- best warrior of Achians
- This scene places the reader in the middle of a war, the Trojan War. Achilleus, a Greek warrior, and Hektor, Trojan warrior, greatly abhor each other. Hektor killed a good friend of Achilleus, therefore Achilleus would love nothing more than to kill Hektor
- Athene, daughter of Zeus, leads Hektor to Achilleus
- Both agree to fight, and Hektor wants the victor to return the corpse of the loser to their home family.
- Archilleus does not agree because there is too much animosity between the two men
- Both fight, and both evenly matched, but Achilleus wins because he has the aide of the gods
- Hektor asks to be returned to his family to have a proper burial
- Achilleus greatly refuses the commodity
- Bede is a historian who documents the history of England and the spread of Christianity even if majority or people are illiterate
- Written in Latin so it died pretty easily because who clergy understood Latin
- Speaks of geography and areas around the city
- Abundance of fish products
- Scarlet dye is symbol of power and endurance because it is a dye that does not fade
- Bede wrote of Ireland in a nicer way... he didn't speak of snakes or anything that could view Ireland in a bad/scary way
- Written because Bede's account is not as accurate
- Invasions caused much danger
- the people were spread out so communication hard plus they never agreed on anything
- They are unified as a culture but not in opinions
- Picts choose kings from female blood line
- Britain contains four languages (English, British, Scots, Latin, and Picts)
- Picts settled in south of Britain
- Scots are called Delreudians…dal means division
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