All of the answers to the following questions are found in Tablet I,. Please use Standard English and word your response using complete sentences (a simple sentence has a subject, a verb, and expresses a complete thought). In Tablet I, what are two archetypes found within the Epic of Gilgamesh?
1. Is Gilgamesh a virtuous character?
2. Is Gilgamesh a man of action or a man of contemplation?
3. What is Uruk?
4. Who is Lugalbanda (LOO-GULL-BAHN-DAH)?
5. Who is Ninsun?
6. What impression of Gilgamesh do you get from the first eleven lines in Tablet I?
7. What is Cross-Cultural Fertilization and how does it influence the development of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
8. Why is fertility (of humans and the earth) tied to the cosmic order (divine order) in the Ancient worldview?
9. Who is Aruru?
10. What do lines 53 - 68 reveal to the reader about Gilgamesh's mental and emotional states?
11. In lines 69 - 81 what kind of divine shift is happening?
12. Who is Shamhat and what is her role?
13. Who is Enkidu and what is his role?
14. What do you think seems to be the meaning and purpose of the ‘dream sharing' that occurs between Gilgamesh and Enkidu?