Exam 13: Introduction to Heroic Myth: The Mesopotamian Legend of Gilgamesh

When does female nudity appear in public Greek art?

In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the "hero myth," one of the hero's parents _______.

This statue is of the type called a _______.

Gilgamesh was a real man who once ruled which Sumerian city?

In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the "hero myth," the hero, at his death, _______.

In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the "hero myth," the hero _______.

Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh of a _______ that would restore youth to an old man.

What were cult places for the worship of heroes called?

To whom does Ishtar furiously complain after she is savagely insulted by Gilgamesh?

In the early fifth century BE, Cimon of Athens brought "home to Athens" the bones a giant skeleton he took to be that of _______.

When did the celebration of religious cult at some preexisting Greek tumuli seem to have begun?

In the garden of the gods at the edge of the sea lived _______, the divine beer maid.

How is Gilgamesh described?

_______ and his wife were the only mortals to have survived the flood.

In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the "hero myth," the hero's great strength is a menace to _______.

After Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill Humbaba, they offer Humbaba's head to which god, who is furious that they have killed him?

What trial does Utnapishtim suggest in order to prove Gilgamesh's innate mortality?

Gilgamesh advises the trapper to take a _______ with him to deal with Enkidu.

The term hero probably means "_______."

In the pattern of motifs that characterizes the "hero myth," the hero _______.