sparknotes: the wolf and the eagle

8/9/2019 SparkNotes: The Wolf and The Eagle

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The Wolf and The Eagle

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Time

Normal Time:

Mythic Time:


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Keywords & Buzzwords

Word

and/or

Phrase

Amount

Josh will

like you if

you use

this word

Amount

Francis

will like

you if you

use this

word

Amount

Antoine

will like

you if you

use this

word

MythicTime 7/10 6/10 7/10

Ritual 9/10 8/10 8/10

Heroes 6/10 7/10 6/10

Invocation 8/10 8/10 7/10

Muses 9/10 9/10 8/10

Allegory 10/10 10/10 10/10

Trickery

and/or

Tricksters

7/10 6/10 7/10

Gravitas 10/10 10/10 10/10

Divine

Machinery

9/10 8/10 10/10

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The Number 7

Kings of Rome:

Romulus and Remus (753-715 BCE)

Numa Pompilius (715-673 BCE)

Tullius Hositilus (673 - 642 BCE)

Ancus Marcius (642 - 617 BCE)

Tarquinius Priscus (617 - 579 BCE)Servius Tullius (579 - 535 BCE)Lucius Tarquinucius Superbus (534 - 510 BCE)

Hills of Rome:

Aventine

Caelian

CapitolineEsquilinePalatine

QuirinalViminal

Dwarfs:

DopeyGrumpy

Doc

Happy

Bashful

SneezySleepy


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Figure 1: A Wolf

Figure 2: An Eagle

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Interpretive Questions You Will

Undoubtedly Have to Answer atSome Point

If Julius Caesar were a character in the play, Julius

Caesar, which character would he play?

How could anyone have ever found the Catalogue ofShips interesting?

Are we the Romans?

If you had Zeuss powers for one day, what would you

do with them first?

Why am I still here?

How does The Odyssey reflect your own life, which

character can you sympathize with the most? Have you

ever cheated on your wife for years on end?

Why didnt Zeus just get a C-section instead of askingHephaestus to break his head open with an axe?

On a hotness scale of 1-10, rate the following gods and

goddesses: Aphrodite, Athena, Hecate, Hermes, Zeus,

Nike, Dionysus, Athena, Persephone


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Maps

Figure 3: A map you will need to memorize for your first test

(really)

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Sappho1

1 If you want to learn more about Sappho2 youre going to have to ask.2 You dont


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The Battle of Thermopylae

The Battle of Thermopylae was the greatest battle since

Herodotus began writing history, i.e. since history

began. One of the most unusual aspects of the battle was

the multitude of camera crews filming every second of

it. The footage was later edited into the blockbuster hit,

300.

Figure 4: Documentary of the Great(est) War

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The Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Marathon took place somewhere near

modern-day Kenya. The Kenyans were scared of the

invading Persians, so they ran away and never stopped.

Kenyans are known to still be the greatest long-distance

runners in the world.

Figure 5: A Kenyan winning, again.


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The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid

Draw lines from each of these epic poems to the storyelements they contain. (Hint: each answer will be used

three times)

The Iliad is an epic poem

has epic similes

has epic battles

damsel in distress

takes a while to read

The Odyssey divine intervention

underworld scene

should actually be

prose

invocation of muses

author is dead

The Aeneid requires an essay

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Philosophers & Inventions

The Greeks had a thinking mans kinda culture, and they

produced three of the most influential philosophers of all

time: Socrates, Play-Doh

and Aristotle. Remarkably,

Socrates invented Play-Doh

and sculpted all of his

knowledge into it. Play-Doh was such an intelligent

plaything that it was able to carry on Socrates elevatedlevel of thinking to its human successor, Aristotle.

Aristotle then took Alexander the Great under his wing,

who really wasnt that great.

Figure 8: Play-Doh

, the successor of Socrates, mentor of

Aristotle


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The Cursus Honorum

The Cursus Honorum was a totem pole hierarchy (if you

will) of ranking and place in society. It was very

important to the Romans, and still is to this day. It went

something like this:

Princeps Senatus

Censor

Dictator

Consul

Praetor

Tribune of the Commons

Aedile

Pedestrians

Quaestor

Military Tribunes

Bicyclists

Evidently there was a great deal of hierarchy. Here is a

more modern Cursus Honorum for comparison:

Hitler

People

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