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CMLIT010
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122
Literature
Undergraduate 1
05/02/2012

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Amakandu
Definition
Babylonian Theogony-- killed father
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Dunnu
Definition
Babylonian Theogony-- the two towers (city)
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Hapy
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Great Hymn to the Aten-- Nile god
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Aten
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Great Hymn to the Aten-- solar disk
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Tiamat
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Enuma Elish-- sea waters
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Apsu
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Enuma Elish--fresh water
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Marduk
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Enuma Elish-- aquatic creation
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Qingu
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Enuma Elish-- keeper of the tablets of destiny
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Ham
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Genesis-- takes advantage of Noah
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Cain
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Genesis-- kills Abel
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Uruk
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Gilgamesh-- oldest known city in human creation
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Sin-liqe-unninni
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first compiler of Gilgamesh
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Rimat-Ninsun
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Gilgamesh-- "Lady Wild Cow," Gilgamesh's mother
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Enkidu
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Gilgamesh-- antidote for Gilgamesh
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Shamhat
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Gilgamesh-- temple harlot that civilized Enkidu
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Ishtar
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Gilgamesh-- goddess of love
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Utanapishtim
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Gilgamesh-- survivor of flood, granted immortailty
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Ereshkigal
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Gilgamesh-- queen of the underworld
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Achilleus
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Iliad-- 2/3 divine
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Agamemnon
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Iliad-- king of the Achaians
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Paris
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Iliad-- King Priam's son
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Apollo
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Iliad-- attacks when priest is disgraced
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Athena
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Iliad-- helps Achilleus kill Hector
Odyssey-- helps Odysseus
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Thetis
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Iliad-- Achilleu's mother
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Hephaistos
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renowned smith, makes shield for Achilleus
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Peleus
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Iliad-- Achilleus' father
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Bryseis
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Iliad-- Achilleus' prize
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Chryseis
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Iliad-- Agamemnon's prize
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Odysseus
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Iliad-- didn't want to go to war
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Patroklos
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Iliad-- wears Achilleus' armor to battle
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Ino
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Odyssey-- sash allows Odysseus to reach shore
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Poseidon
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Odyssey-- tried to keep Odysseus from returning home
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Nausicaa
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Odyssey-- find Od. while doing laundry
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Alcinous
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Odyssey-- king of Phaeachians
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Deomodocus
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Odyssey-- blind rhapsode
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Ares
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Odyssey-- war
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Aprhodite
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Odyssey-- love
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Circe
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Odyssey-- keeps Odysseus on her island
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Elpanore
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Odyssey-- gets drunk and falls off roof
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Anticleia
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Odyssey-- Odysseus' mother
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Telemachus
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Odyssey-- Odysseus' son
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Antinus and Eurymachus
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Oddysey-- leaders of the suitors
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Eurykleia
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Odyssey-- bought as nusremaid
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Penelope
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Odyssey-- Odysseus' wife
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Cadmus
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Oedipus-- founder of Thebes
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Labdacus
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Oedipus-- "lame man" grandfather
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Laius
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Oedipus-- Oedipus' father, cursed for violating xenia
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Chryssipus
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Oedipus-- seduced by Laius
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Jocasta
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Odeipus-- his mother
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Creon
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Oedipus-- Jocasta's brother
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Polybus and Merope
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Oedipus-- raised him
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Antigone and Ismene
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Oedipus-- his and Jocasta's daughters
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Callimachus
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wrote Aetia
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Boios
Definition
wrote Ornithogonia
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Nicander
Definition
wrote Heteroeumena
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Narcissus
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Ovid-- falls in love with reflection
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Echo
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Ovid-- can only repeat what is heard for manipulating presence of Juno
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Juno
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Hera
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Jove
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Zeus
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Arachne
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Ovid-- challenges Minerva at weaving
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Minotaur
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Ovid-- child of Pasiphae and bull
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Pasiphae
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Ovid-- Circe's sister, has sex with bull
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Daedalus
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Ovid-- created wooden bull and labyrinth
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Icarus
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Ovid-- Daedalus' son
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Ariadne
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Ovid-- metamorphosis into physical body
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Pythagoras
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Ovid-- metempsychosis
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Wang Wei
Definition
devoted life to poetry at 30
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Li Bo
Definition
epistulae herodium
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Du Fu
Definition
Ballad of Army Coats
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Shahzaman
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1001-- witnesses brother's wife being unfaithful
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Shahrayar
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1001-- decided to kill bride after one night
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Shahrazad
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1001-- marries Shahrayar, storyteller
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Dinarzad
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1001-- keeps sister from being killed
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Porter
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1001-- becomes companion of 3 girls
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Kalanders
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1001-- princes, each missing one eye
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Jafar
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1001-- wazir
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Masrur
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1001-- sword-bearer
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Harun-al-Rashid
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1001-- Khalifa
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Zubaidah
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1001-- first of the girls, sister of black bitches
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Sympathy the Learned
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1001-- slave knowledgeable in all subjects
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Hypatia
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polymath, last director of library of Alexandria
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Dante
Definition
Florentine, later exiled
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Virgil
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Inferno-- wrote Aeneid, Dante's guide
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Ciacco
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Inferno-- prophesizes future of Florence
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Plutus
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Inferno-- Roman god of wealth
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Filipo Argenti
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Inferno-- had horses shod in silver
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Farinata
Definition
Inferno-- tells of future exile from Florence
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Nichomachus
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Inferno-- Aristotle's father
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Geryon
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Inferno-- prosopopeia of fraud
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Ulysses and Diomedes
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Inferno-- brought together into Hell
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Magellan
Definition
circumnavigation of the world
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Leon Baltista Alberti
Definition
discovery of optical perspective
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Paraceisus
Definition
"Great Painting Book"
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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painted and wrote poetry
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Cavalieri
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horseman-- connection to Phillip
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Montaigne
Definition
father's social experiment
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Marcela
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Don-- warrior woman
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Epimenedes
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Don-- Cretan philosopher
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Chrinostomos
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Don-- wrote about Marcela
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Sancho
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Don-- tale-teller, squire
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Ines de Pasamonte
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Don-- writing autobiography
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Master Pedro
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Don-- puppetmaster
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Leibniz
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Candide-- philosopher "best of all possible worlds"
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Thunder-ten-tronkh
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Candide-- baron family
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Cunegonde
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Candide-- object of his affection
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Pangloss
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Cnadide-- teacher, relies on reason
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Old Woman
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Candide-- princess
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Cacambo
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Candide-- slave, makes most important decisions
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Martin
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Candide-- knows when not to fight
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Paquette
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Candide-- maid, gives Pangloss Syphilis
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Ghalib
Definition
court poet
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Mr. Gu
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Madman-- old ledgers
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Mr. Zhao
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Madman-- neighbor with the dog
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Lu Xun
Definition
abandoned career in medicine to write
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Virginia Woolf
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saw body as crime scene
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Isabella Tyson
Definition
Looking Glass-- the lady "God's Promise"/ "high-spirited"
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Borges
Definition
translated VW and Kafka into Spanish
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Gregor
Definition
Metamorphosis-- traveling salesman
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Grete
Definition
Metamorphosis-- Gregor's sister
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Primo Levi
Definition
chemist, survived Auschwitz
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Bertrando
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2 Flags-- Lantanian who hates Gunduwia
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Mahmoud Darwish
Definition
Palestinian, arrested after publishing
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