| A | B |
|---|
| Gilgamesh Epic when and where | 2000 BC Middle Eastern literature |
| Gilgamesh - colors and numbers | Blue(water),gold(sun),Red(blood) |
| Early China | 765 - China |
| Middle Period | 1283 - China |
| Book of Songs | 772 - China |
| Thetis | Goddess, Achilles mom |
| Primary Epic | Illiad, Gilgamesh -folk |
| Secondary epic | Aenid-sophisticated craftsman |
| Diomedes, Oddysseus | Brave Achaian warriors |
| Iliad who wrote and when | 700-800 BC Homer |
| Iliad fact or fiction | may have been based on fact |
| Utnapishtim | Plant-eternal youth-sea tells gilgame |
| Ishtar | Goddess of love and war,guardian of Uruk, proclaims love for Gilgamesh |
| Gilgamesh | Babylonian king ruled Uruk |
| Enkidu | challenges Gilgamesh, friends |
| Priam | Hectors father, begs Achilles |
| Patroklos | Achilles warrior-companion, friend |
| Thetis | Goddess, Achilles mom, tells fated for death if avenges Patroklos death |
| King Agamemnon | emotional, arrogant takes woman |
| Helen | wife of Menelaos, Agememnons sister in law |
| Hektor | conflict between family and war |
| Zeus | King of gods |
| Nestor | oldest Achaian warrior |
| Paris | kidnaps Helen |
| Achilles shield | 5 layers, depicts the world, signs of zodiac, 2 cities engaged in activities |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes about 400 BC |
| "The Apology of Socrates" | Plato 429-347 BC |
| Tao te Ching book of taoism | Lao Tzu |
| earth | yin |
| heaven | yang |
| "the unexamined life not worth living" | Socrates famous quote |
| taoism - philosophy | void/non void, e.g. inside a cup is the void |
| taoism - writer | LiPo |
| Confucius | TuFu |
| Tang Poetry | LiPo/TuFu 618-907 |
| Analects | Confucius 551-479 BC written by disciples centuries after death |
| Book of Songs | Chou Dynasty 1000-600 BC |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh | 2500-1300 BC middle east |
| Homer | The Iliad 8th century BC |
