1. How do the Mesopotamian gods in the Epic of Gilgamesh compare with the Greek gods you read about in our Greek mythology reading?

1. How do the Mesopotamian gods in the Epic of Gilgamesh compare with the Greek gods you read about in our Greek mythology reading?

2. How would you compare Gilgamesh as a character to Alexander the Great, especially as Alexander’s life is revealed in our reading from Plutarch’s Life of Alexander?

3. According to the rules and ideas of Aristotle you read about in his How to Tell a Story (i.e. The Poetics), what would he think of our Homer reading (our Odyssey of Homer reading only [Book 11 PDF]—not the whole Odyssey)? How would Aristotle say it measures up to his own guidelines for what makes a good story?

4. Using our Cicero reading How to Run a Country, what would Cicero think about how the ancient Athenians and other Greeks ran their cities? You will definitely want to look carefully at our Thucydides Peloponnesian War reading.

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