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Exam 4: Alienation of the Human and Divine: Prometheus, Fire, and Pandora

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The Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions agree on seeing woman as the catalyst of humanity's historical decline.

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B) False

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In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the story of the universal flood

A) ends with the survival of Utnapishtim, Gilgamesh's relative.
B) begins when Enkidu is "tamed" by the priestess of Ishtar.
C) does not appear at all.
D) describes the end of an entire race.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Zeus allows Heracles to kill the eagle that is feasting on Prometheus's liver.

Hesiod may have created a revised version of an older myth in which Pandora was originally an earth goddess called "Giver of All."

Enkidu, the savage male, is tamed through a sexual encounter with a priestess.

Aeschylus interprets Prometheus as a tyrant, whereas Hesiod sees him as a heroic rebel.

During the Age of Silver, men's childhood lasted a hundred years.

Prometheus is chained to a rock by Zeus as punishment for tricking Zeus to accept bones of sacrificial animals.

Zeus, in Aeschylus's interpretation, is omnipotent as well as omniscient.

Deucalion and Pyrrha survive the flood in an ark, according to Greek tradition, and repopulate the earth by throwing stones over their shoulders.

In Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is simply a trickster who takes joy in causing trouble for humanity and the gods.

An eponymous ancestor is the person for whom a group is named.

Gilgamesh, the savage male, is tamed by a sexual encounter with Enkidu, a priest of Ishtar.

According to Hesiod, the trickster mentality was critical in the shaping of the universe and human society.

Among the ages of history mentioned by Hesiod are the Age of Iron and the Age of Copper.

Hesiod claims that Prometheus is a second-generation Titan; Aeschylus identifies him as a son of Gaea.

The fire that Prometheus gave to humans is a metaphor for all the arts of civilization.

Pandora's jar can be seen as a sybmol of the womb.

Prometheus's defiance gives Zeus an opportunity to save himself from a future downfall at the hands of Prometheus's son.

Hesiod mentions four ages of history, corresponding to the four main metals.