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Question 1:
Why do you suppose flood stories are so popular?
What events or religious tenets might flood stories explain?
Floods may cleanse, but they also destroy. Why do you think flood stories often occur shortly after the creation?
Compare, contrast, and discuss the Ovid and Genesis myths of destruction both of which include a flood. Please give specific details of each myth you are discussing, citing the textbook as needed.
Consider how the stories you compare represent the ideas of the society for which they were created.?
Question 2:
Why are humans destroyed in each of these two flood stories?
Why are the flood heroes picked to survive?
What do you answers reveal about each culture's concerns and its view of the relations between humans and gods?
How does the flood affect the gods?
How does the behavior of various gods before, during, and after the flood affect each culture and your view(s) of these gods?
Question 3:
There are a number of popular "disaster movies" in which earth is devastated by some natural catastrophe. Some examples are The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974), Volcano (1997), Deep Impact (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Poseidon (2006), Hereafter (2010) and Melancholia (2011). Others? More recent movies?
Compare modern disaster film heroes to those of the Ovid and/or Genesis flood story.
How are the causes of disaster in modern stories better suited to our culture?
Myths sometimes portray the science of the time in which they are composed. How well do disaster movies use contemporary science?
If people 1,000 years in the future had to judge our scientific understanding from these films, what sort of judgments might they make?