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Week 2 Discussion Question 1

As you watched the video and read the excerpt, what stood out for you about the story of Gilgamesh?  Would you consider him a tragic hero?  Why do you think this story has survived since the time of the Sumerians when other stories from that time period have not?

Week 3 Discussion Question 1

Which activity did you choose to do for the Gilgamesh Activity One?  Why did you choose this activity?  What new information about Gilgamesh did you learn while doing this activity?

Week 4 Discussion Question 1

What difference did you notice between the ancient Hebrew Bible text and the Christian version when it came to events like the Great Flood?  What stands out the most to you after reading the Hebrew version of Genesis?

Week 5 Discussion Question

What did you know about Homer's, The Odyssey before beginning this module?  What have you learned?  What stands out for you about this story?

Week 6 Discussion Question

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Identify the play you chose to study.  Did you know the play before you chose it?  What stands out for you as you read it for class?  What message(s) does the play hold for someone reading or watching it in 2021?

Week 7 Discussion Question

This week you were asked to read the selections from the Aeneid:  Book VI (http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.6.vi.html) and the selections from the Bhagavad-Gita ( http://learner.org/courses/worldlit/gita/read/ (Links to an external site.) or the Ramayana :  CANTO CXXX.: THE CONSECRATION ( http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry501.htm (Links to an external site.) ).  Had you ever read any of those selections before this class?  What stands out the most to you about this week's readings?  What message(s) do these selections hold for a reader today?

World Literature

Part of this course uses Anneni's Invitation to World Literature web site.  I have attached the link in case I missed fixing a link that kept sending me to an Australian online gambling web site.  https://www.learner.org/series/invitation-to-world-literature/ (Links to an external site.)

You can also link out by one of these links.

Series Directory

Invitation to World Literature (Links to an external site.)

· 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh (Links to an external site.)

· 2 My Name Is Red (Links to an external site.)

· 3 The Odyssey (Links to an external site.)

· 4 The Bacchae (Links to an external site.)

· 5 The Bhagavad Gita (Links to an external site.)

· 6 The Tale of Genji (Links to an external site.)

· 7 Journey to the West (Links to an external site.)

· 8 Popol Vuh (Links to an external site.)

· 9 Candide (Links to an external site.)

· 10 Things Fall Apart (Links to an external site.)

· 11 One Hundred Years of Solitude (Links to an external site.)

· 12 The God of Small Things (Links to an external site.)

· 13 The Thousand and One Nights