CLA160H1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - Egypt
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Levant (geographic area of the coast of the eastern mediterranean between egypt and asia. Language, script: alphabet is not language (and ethnicity is not culture) people living in the same place are not all of the same race ex. Gilgamesh epic: thousands of years legend/myth tradition, sumerian songs, akkadian epic; preserved standard" version, gilgamesh, enkidu, ut-napishti, themes: city (uruk), ----------, journey to find meaning of life and to see if he can be immortal fails. Uruk: p1: he built the walls of the great city. , p3: he tells ur-shanabit to climb the walls . walls central to establish city-state in ancient world provided protection from enemies. Nature/culture: polarity of nature and culture, p1: a hunter/trapper soon discovered enkidu running naked roaming/grazing . Cosmographical wandering: p2: mt mashu: [the scorpian men] describe an underground route or dark tunnel under the mountains, the path of te sun-god .
