Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Beautiful Creature, Trachis, Ninsun

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Hero who comes to us from ancient near-eastern cultures. His story is one of the very oldest stories that we have. Comparatively, greek heroes share many of the same elements and qualities as. Comes from area of mesopotamian valley (mesoptomia means between the rivers: sophisticated culture in this area with fertile land, mespotomia to 2500 bcea. Flood plain between the rivers tigris and euphrates. Mesopotomia was peopled by sumerians around 2800- Gilgamesh is listed as king of uruk (5th after the flood) around 2800 2500 bce. Gilgamesh and other stories were written as early as. 2150 bce: our surviving text comes from akkadian period from 12 arkkadian tablets around 700 bce (same time as homer and hesiod) Recently discovered tablet v (5) adds new details to the story. Reconstruction of ziggaurat at ur: building like the ones described in the epic of.