HUM 1 STUDY GUIDE SAQ

Given the theme of Love, compare the Iliad to one other text that we have discussed this quarter? Name at least 3 moments in both texts.

Example
The Epic of Gilgamesh
a. Ninsun protects Gilgamesh as she prayed to Shamash for his protection. Additionally, she adopts Enkidu as her son.
Type of Love: Parental Love

Genesis (Noah’s Ark)

b. God gave advice to Noah to build an ark, which saved him, his family, and pairs of every animal from the great flood.

Type of Love: Spiritual Love

The Iliad

c. The death of Achilles’ close friend Patroclus caused him to go back to war and avenge Patroclus.

Type of Love: Philia; friendship love

Given the theme of Fate, compare Oedipus the King to one other text that we have discussed this quarter? Name at least 3 moments in both texts.

Example

Trojan Women

a. Briseis was originally with Achilles, but got taken away by Agamemnon. As she was handed over to Agamemnon, the book describes her attitude as “unwilling”.

Fate: Predetermined Fate

Genesis

b. Adam and Eve were commanded by God to not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Accordingly, they got banished from Paradise and separated from God.

Fate: Divine Fate

Oedipus the King

c. Despite the blind prophet Tiresias advising him that discovering the truth would cause great harm, Oedipus discovers that his wife Jocasta is his mother and he killed his father. Hearing this news caused him to gouge his eyes in despair.

Fate: Free Will

Given the theme of Tragedy, compare Allegory of the Cave to one other text that we have discussed this quarter? Name at least 3 moments in both texts.

Example

The Bacchae

a. Dionysus is initially rejected by Thebans of his divinity, so they refuse to worship him. However, the city’s young King, Pentheus, tries to take control of him. The tragedy begins when his own mother Agave traps and kills Pentheus.

Allegory of the Cave

b. The prisoners chained to the cave can only see shadows and don’t understand the realm of the universe. When they are told there is an outside world, they reject such knowledge and stay inside the cave. Their ignorance is the cause of their tragic fate.

Given the theme of Death, compare The Iliad to one other text that we have discussed this quarter? Name at least 3 moments in both texts.

Given the theme of heroism, compare Exodus to one other text that we have discussed this quarter? Name at least 3 moments in both texts.

Given the theme of divine authority and human limitation, compare The Iliad to one other text that we have discussed this quarter? Name at least 3 moments in both texts.