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| Finnish folklorist. She is the "Aarne" part of the Aarne-Thompson system for classifying mythology.It categorizes traditional stories according to their elements and structures. |
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| An American folklorist. The "Thompson" part of the Aarne-Thompson system used for classifying mythology.It categorizes traditional stories according to their elements and structures. |
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| types of narrative patterns that were defined and classified by the folklorists Anti Aarne and Stith Thompson. Folktale types are stories that can be found in several different cultures, such as "The Juniper Tree" or "The Search for the Lost Husband." |
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| types of narrative patterns that were defined and classified by the folklorists Anti Aarne and Stith Thompson. They are elements of a story, not entire stories. An example of a folktale motif might be a type of character that is found in stories from different cultures, such as a wicked witch, or an object, such as a magic wand. |
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| "My Mother She Killed Me; My Father He Ate Me." Stories: "The Juniper Tree"(German) and "The Crow's Nest"(Hungary) and "The Rose Tree"(England) |
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| Hungarian story depicting the AT Folklore Type 720, "My Mother She Killed Me; My Father He Ate Me." |
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| German story depicting the AT Folklore Type 720, "My Mother She Killed Me; My Father He Ate Me." |
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| English story depicting the AT Folklore Type 720, "My Mother She Killed Me; My Father He Ate Me." |
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| The Roman god of love. He falls in love with a beautiful human princess, Psyche. They live together in a castle with invisible, magical servants. Psyche cannot see Cupid because he only visits her at night. |
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| A beautiful princess who marries Cupid. Because she can't see him she brings an oil lamp to bed one night and realizes he is not a monster but the god of love, however, she drops hot oil on him by accident and he flies away. She must overcome several obstacles to find him again. |
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| Author of the story Cupid and Psyche. He wrote this story as an embedded narrative. |
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| "The Search for the Lost Husband." Stories: "The Tale of Tulisa" and "The Singing, Soaring Lark" and "Cupid and Psyche" and Beauty and the Beast" |
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| "The Singing, Soaring Lark" |
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| German story depicting the AT Folklore tale 425. "The Search for the Lost Husband." |
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| Story originated from North India. Depicts the AT Folklore Type 425, "The Search for the Lost Husband" |
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| King of the Snakes. Name of Tulisa's husband in "The Tale of Tulisa." He could not tell her his name lest he lose his powers and his mother (Queen of the Snakes)gains the power instead and takes over. |
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| The bird that Tulisa must incubate in her boddess until it hatches so that it can peck the eyes out of the snake around the queen's neck and restore her husband to power. |
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| An arrogant king in "The Epic of Gilgamesh." 2/3 god because his mother was a goddess and his father was later deified. He acts more like a god anyways because he doesn't obey the rules of humanity. Unethical. |
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| Father of Gilgamesh and married to the goddess, Ninsun. He is later deified. |
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| Mother of Gilgamesh and married King Lugalbanda. She is a goddess |
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| Place where Gilgamesh is king. The people of Uruk pray to Nintu to save them from the oppression of Gilgamesh. |
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| Created by Nintu to make Gilgamesh a better human. He is originally more like an animal than a human but once he has sex he becomes more human. Gilgamesh and him have a fight and become friends afterwards. This helps each of them to become more civilized and human-like. |
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| She is the prostitute/harlot of the temple Ishtar (goddess of love , sex, and desire) that has sex with Enkidu. This humanizes Enkidu a little bit more. |
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| A giant; protector of the Pine Forest. He taunts Gilgamesh and says, "You will never be able to kill me." When he is about to be killed he begs for mercy and Enkidu says no so Gilgamesh and him kill Humbaba, but he gives a dying curse, "One of you will die." |
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| The Mesopotamian sun god. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, he helps Gilgamesh in the battle against Humbaba, by giving him winds to use as weapons. |
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| Temple where Shamhat comes from. Ishtar is the goddess of love, sex, and desire. Wants to have sex with Gilgamesh and he says, "No your lovers are doomed." |
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| The punishment Ishtar asks her father, Anu to send to Uruk because Gilgamesh would not have sex with her. It attacks Uruk but Enkidu and Gilgamesh kill it. |
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| A sky god, father or Ishtar. Gives her the Bull of Heaven to punish Uruk because Gilgamesh would not sleep with her. |
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| Lives on the edge of the earth with his wife. Immortal because he survived the flood. Tries to help Gilgamesh get immortality. |
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| One of the places Gilgamesh travels through on his way to see Utnapishtim. It has a valley that is eternally dark, and it is inhabited by a scorpion-man and his wife. |
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| The alewife that runs the bar/tavern. She tells Gilgamesh how to cross the waters of death. |
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| She was a beautiful vampire from the Tale of Nadilla who marries the mortal man, Abdul-Hassan. Won't share a meal with him. She later tries to kill her husband. |
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| It is a ghost or ghoul who has come back from the dead to terrorize the living. There was an ancient Mesopotamian belief that the gods had threatened to raise the dead to eat the living. AT motif 250: "Blood Thirsty Revenant" |
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| The AT motif 251. Hungry dead people back to eat the living |
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| Means a Wanderer. Ghost that got out of the underworld. |
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| restless and hungry spirits |
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| "The Prince and the Ghoul" |
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| story of a revenant in 1001 nights. Prince meets beautiful Indian women. Will give a ride back but she insists on stopping at a latrine. There are ghouls inside and they congratulate her for luring her in there so that they can kill him. |
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| Beautiful young woman whose husband notices she does not eat. Follows her to a graveyard late at night and sees her partying with ghouls, listening to horrible music and eating corpses. |
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| Greatest warrior of his time. Half human and half immortal. His mother Thetis was a goddess but his father Peleus was human. |
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| Author of the Iliad. story of Ilium (Troy) |
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| Homer wrote it. Story about Ilium (Troy). Set time of Iliad was 900-800BCE |
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| City where the Trojan War takes place. Also called Ilium. |
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| Repeated passages. Used in oral poetry. |
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| War between the Greeks and the Trojans. Began because the prince of Troy wins Helen away from Menelaus. |
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| Reason the Trojan War began because he stole Helen, the wife of one of the Greek kings, Menelaus, from Menelaus. He is a herdsman and prince of Troy. |
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| King of Greece that lost his wife Helen to Paris, prince of Troy. His anger starts the Trojan war. Asks his brother Agamemnon to help him. |
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| Wife of Menelaus who leaves him to be with Paris. Rumored to be the ruin of the great city, Troy. |
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| The brother of Menelaus. He is the king of Mycenae and the leader of the Greek forces. |
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| Agamemnon is the king of Mycenae |
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| First word seen in the Iliad. It means rage. It is a major theme in the Iliad |
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| It means a prize or spoil. The amount of time` you have depends on how much geras you take. |
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| Time` means honor. You have more time` by taking more geras. |
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| Means glory. The more time` you have alive the more kleos you will have when you're dead. It's like your legacy. |
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| Father of Chryseis. He is a priest of Apollo. Prays to Apollo who sends disease and the Greeks have to give back Chryseis. |
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| One of the gods of the Trojans. When Agamemnon takes Chryseis as his geras Apollo sends a disease on the Greek men so they have to return her to her father. |
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| Agamemnon takes her as his geras. Her father prays to Apollo to give her back. |
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| Achilles' geras. Agamemnon steals her from him when he loses his geras, Chryseis. This caused Achilles to lose his time` (honor). Achilles takes his men and leaves war. |
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| Achilles' mother. He complains to her and Zeus to cause the Greeks to lose and the Trojans to start winning to show Agamemnon how much they really need him. |
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| An elderly adviser of Agamemnon. Advises him to apologize to Achilles to try and get Achilles to come back and fight. Instead he sends 3 embassies. |
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| First man Agamemnon sent to Achilles. he is clever and tactful; uses rhetoric and fancy words, but it does not convince Achilles to come back. |
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| Second man Agamemnon sends to Achilles. He was Achilles old tutor so they talk and reminisce, but Achilles still says no. |
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| The third man Agamemnon sends. He is the second greatest warrior, right behind Achilles. They talk warrior to warrior, but he still says no. |
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| Achilles' second self(almost seems to embody the same characteristics of hero; or they are two opposites that one together --> usually always dies...part of hero then dies.) He is Achilles best friend. Asks to go in place of Achilles and he finally says ok take my men, Myrmidons, but turn back when you reach the walls of Troy. He doesn't and is killed by Hector. |
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| Means fate. Achilles fate is: Option 1: Long life without Kleos. Option 2: short life with Kleos. |
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| The greatest warrior on the Trojan side. Kills Patroclus. Then Achilles kills him for revenge and drags his body back to camp. Won't return body (terrible fate for a human to bot be allowed to be buried --> can't pass to the underworld) |
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| River (Xanthus) attacks Achilles. (rivers are associated with male dietes.) River god starts fighting Achilles and Poseidon, Athena, and Hephaistos have to save him. |
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| Hector's father, wants to bury his son. Hermes helps him sneak in Achilles' camp. Priam holds Achilles knee and begs for his son back. Achilles thinks of his own father, Peleus, and has pity on Priam and allows him to take Hector back. |
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