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39 Cards in this Set
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Utnapishtim
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-Flood hero granted inmortality -Lets them know a flood is coming builds an ship. -Told Gilgamesh about inmortality plant under water.
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Gilgamesh
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-A legendary Sumerian king. King of Uruk -2500-1500 BCE -Gilgamesh is looking to obtain inmortality gets renewed becomes better king.
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The Deluge
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-The flood in gilgamesh tablet 11 -Distroys city states of mesopotamia - Gilgamesh rebuilds Uruk.
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Ishtar
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-Goddess of love and fertility and war -Sacred prostitution -Asked Gilgamesh to marry her he refused curse him w/ bull of heaven
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Baal
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-Similar to Yahweh- lord -Manifest in storms, not actual presence -Enemy Judge Rive: cycle fightinng gods of water
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Restaurant metaphor
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-Gods depend on human offerings to feed them and survive. -Trade cities depending on offerings -No god no city no human no god
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Isis
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-Egyptian goddess of fertility -Married her brother Osiris son named Horus -Parents Geb and Nut
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Osiris
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-Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead -husband and sister of Isis -Involved in deviine judgement
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Horus
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-Egyptian falcon-headed solar god -Son Isis and Osiris -God of waar sky and protection
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Necropolis
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-City of the dead -Tumbs in egypt use t continue make offerings to dead kings. -Distant from cities
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Maat
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-Goddess of harmony justice and trust -Scale of justice in judgement soul lighter than a feather -Daughter of Ra the sun god
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Ka
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-Soul, life force -What survives after death -House in temple for offerings
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Documentary Hypothesis
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-J Yahweh, E-Elohist, P-Priestly, D-Deuteronomy -Four authors -Views woven together to create torah
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'adamah
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-Earthling -is: man isha: women -
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Yahweh
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-Lord -War triump, battle and creative order. -Storm clouds lived on mountain
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Numinous
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-Overwhelming, terrifying, misterious -evincing the presence of a deity - Strong religgious quality
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The Satan
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-Prosecutor -Tells Yahweh when someone is disrespecting him. - Challege/ bet in book of job take everythig away from a believer
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El
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-El & Elohim= God -Power Manifested in speech -el- god elohim- gods
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Cosmology
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-Map -layout of the universe. -universe divided top water middle land god in mountains and bottom water
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Cosmogony
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-How the universe came about. -
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Mycenea
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-1200-900 BCE -invaded convined with Minoans -Perished with the collapse of Bronze age civilization
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Tragedy
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Tragos-goat oide- song goatsong Festival for dionysius sing songs and sacriffice goats
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Underworld/ netherworld
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-Place were souls went after death -Hedes god of underworld -afterlife
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Oikos
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house or family Honor tradition antigone felt the need to bury her brother for respect and love
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Polis
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-city state, rules -Creon felt necessity to be faithful to his people (city) -reused to bury polynices because he had betrayed the city.
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Anthropomorphism
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Sparta
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-City state -8th-3rd BCE military society -no proporty or gold
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Athens
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-Democracy 6th BCE -Sparta and Athens alliance vs persian
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Peloponnesian War
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-Spartan Vs. Athenians -Sparta wins and controls for 30 years -Late 5th and early 4th century BCE
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Achilles
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-Most Important in Trojan war -Made himself seem like an undefeated warrior -Kills Trojan hero Hector for killing his friend Patroclus
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Tyche
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-Goddess of change -Fate and destiny -Greek believe this id what govrn the events of their lives
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Oracle of apollo at Delphi
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-Oracle represented Apollo -Best predictor of the future -Many could uninterprest him
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Oedipus
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-King of Thebes -Prophecy Kills his father Laius marry his mother Joeasta -Raised by king Polybus and Merope
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Tiresias
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-Blind Prophet of Thebes -was a women for 7 years -involved arguement of zeus and hera- who has more plessure in sex
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Apple of Paris (Eris)
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-Peleus and Eris were getting maried Eris not invited Apple that said to the fairest of the all was trown -Hera (Makes paris king) athena (Skill iin warfare) and aphrodite (Most beautiful in the world) fight for it -Paris chooses Aphrodite gets Helen
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Basilius
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-King of enherints primogenitus
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Tyrannos
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King doesnt hot inherit wins the kingship
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Deon
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-Duty -acting on ethcal principals -Antigones deon was oikos Creons deon wwas Polis
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Telos
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-Everything in nature has a purpose or goal -Aristotle uses this philosophy -Goal for an end
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