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Western Civilization Culture
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Undergraduate 4
10/15/2012
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Gilgamesh
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Is the King of Urk
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Samaria

 

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is the modern day city of Iraq, where the gilgamesh epic takes palce
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Job
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A man that was plague by God/Unknown Author
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Homer
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The author of the Iliad and Odyssey
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Aeschylus
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The author of trilogy, Oresteia.
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Agamemnon
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The king of Mycenae/ Also one of the tragedies in Oresteia
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Sophocles
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The author of Oedpius and Antigone
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Euripides
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The author of Medea
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Aristophanes
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The author of Lysistrata
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Virgil
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The Aeneid
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Ovid
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The Metamorphoses
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Worm holes
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Are the missing texts/materials that are missing from the Gilgamesh epic. (Akkadian texts)
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Hus
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The land where Job lives.
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Illiam
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A city where the Iliad takes place
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Pietas
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Piety/Loyalty/Commitment
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Corinth
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The city where Medea and Jason settles down
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Iolchos
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A city where Jason returns to gain kingship
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Pharmakon
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Pharmacy-something can heal cure/ destroy
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Polyphemus
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Many fame/ Speeches
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Metis/ Mz' Tcs
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Wisdom/Skill
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Ou'Tcs
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Nobody
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Sophrosyne
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Translate as moderation
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Megalopsychia
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Large soul
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Nomos
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Law custome/culture
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Physis
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Notion of nature/Puris
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Gilgamesh
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Akkadian King
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