CLSA 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gilgamesh Flood Myth, Trojan War, Enki
30 Jul 2016
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Transmission of mythological stories through the aoidoi: bards, the first myth-makers of greece. They composed poems even as they sang them before elite male audiences to the accompaniment of a lyre. Influence on greek myths by the near east. Mesopotamia= the land between the two rivers. (tigris/ euphrates) in what is today iraq. Near eastern stories must have been imported in greece durning the late dark. According to some scholars, the book of genesis borrowed this version. They had created the first city-states by 3000 bc. Mostly an agrarian society, they developed the earliest forms of writing. An sky , the lord of the infinite expanse of the dome above. The supreme authority of gods and humans and an important figure in myths of creation (uranus sky ) Inanna queen of heaven , goddess of sexual love and, curiously, war. Sumerian text notes that even 120 lovers could not satisfy her (aphrodite) Enki, lord of earth. a clever, crafty god.
