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9 Cards in this Set
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The Iliad
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-mortality
-choosing: free will v. destiny -the power of rhetoric -unstability of power -individualism -gods v. humans |
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Hymn to Demeter
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-loss (mother daughter bond)
-desire -sexuality-death ->(marriage) -power -identity |
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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-how humans deal with death
-sexuality -humanity |
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The Odyssey
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-finding identity
-rebirth -surviving from death (literally and symbolically) -civilization -storytelling -suffering and tribulations -nostalgia and homecoming -anger of the Gods -recklessness |
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Herodotus' Histories
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-balance and order
-misreading/ignoring signs -instability of human fortune |
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Agamemnon
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-revenge and justice
-homecoming -status of woman -maternal vs. paternal power -cycles of violence -morality is complex |
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Libation Bearers
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-language
-cycles of violence: dysfunction, pollution, contamination |
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The Euminides
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-justice/justification
-old vs. new -status and power of ancient values -matriarchal vs. patriarchal -democracy-establishment of Polis -transgression |
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Oedipus the King
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-knowledge and wisdom
-seeing and blindness -free will and fate -pollution -hubris -transgression |
