CGS HU 101 Lecture Notes - Enlil, Sophocles, Israelites
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Seneca was a roman nobleman who lived in a period during which the powers in rome had become more and more violent. The paranoia is seen all over seneca. Seneca"s plays are the only roman tragedies who are left. Gory version of classical tragedy was used as a basis for shakespeare. Staging: jocasta kills herself on stage unlike in sophocles. The hebrew bible grows out of this philosophical bedrock. Compare to the iliad as it is repeated. Divine structure of the world of the author of gilgamesh; Different tone to regret, and different purposes to cause the flood. Enlil seems to dislike all the humans. Many gods, enlil had a greater place [prime god in this point] Sort of like the greek gods as not perfect and regretful. Covenant in the genesis [gods promise to not create in another flood]. The bible was not imitated/recreated in its form but instead in how it shapes.
