Posted: September 1st, 2023
Stories Response Paper essay
Read the creation stories in the Links for Readings page in Week 2. Read, reflect, and respond to the stories in 3-4 pages, double-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman, MLA format.
The Creation Stories section
The Great Hymn to the Aten
https://uh.edu/honors/human-situation/survival-kit/study-aids/Hymn%20to%20the%20Aten.pdf
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/amarna/belief.html
Enuma Elish, the Babylonian Creation Epic
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/csar/files/2011/03/Seri-Enuma-elish.pdf
Works and Days by Hesiod
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348
(html book direct link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm)
On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/785
(html book direct link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/785/785-h/785-h.htm)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50742/50742-h/50742-h.htm Beowulf
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htm Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/228/228-h/228-h.htm The Aeneid, by Virgil
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6130/6130-h/6130-h.htm The Iliad, by Homer
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23700/23700-h/23700-h.htm The Decameron, by Bocaccio
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22120/22120-h/22120-h.htm Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8300/8300-h/8300-h.htm The Complete Bible
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31/31-h/31-h.htm Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34206/34206-h/34206-h.htm The Thousand and One Nights
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2800/pg2800.html The Koran
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14568/14568-h/14568-h.htm “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”