Question
For 10 points each, answer the following about Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, the only extant Greco-Roman text to mention Gilgamesh.
[10e] Aelian's account of Gilagmos resembles the story of this son of Danae (DAH-nay) who was thrown into the sea at birth to prevent the prophesied death of his grandfather Acrisius.
ANSWER: Perseus
[10m] After being thrown from the citadel, Gilgamos was nurtured in a garden by one of these animals. To replace Hercules' wife, one of these animals abducted a Trojan prince to serve at Mount Olympus.
ANSWER: eagle [prompt on bird]
[10h] Aelian's version of Gilgamos and the eagle is framed as an explanation of this phenomenon. In an etiological myth, Harpocrates agrees not to share the secrets of two deities of this phenomenon when given a flower.
ANSWER: love [or desire or attraction] (That myth is supposedly the origin for the term "sub rosa.")
<Lalit Maharjan , Mythology - Greco/Roman>
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