Ancient Literature/ October 13

Be thinking about details for your group work. Your epic needs to be the work of your entire group.

Vocabulary:

1. satirize- to treat with sarcasm

2. saline- consisting of salt

3. ruth- sorrow for another's misery

4. rue- to regret

5. rivulet- small stream or brook

6. rigmarole- nonsense

7. rife- abundant

8.rhetoric- act of discourse

9. revoke- to rescind

10. revisal- revision

Read Tablets 3 and 4 of Epic of Gilgamesh.

Answer the following:

Analyze the dreams of Gilgamesh.

What do you think they mean?

**Our next selection is The Illiad by Homer (Samuel Butler translation)