ENG 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bromance, Siduri, Soltyrei
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Epic of gilgamesh lecture #1 notes, general facts, epic of gilgamesh video #2 notes, earliest bromance, gilgameshes" special world/adventures, the ishtar episode, epic of gilgamesh video #3, tablets 8-11, the flood tablet. Complex society and maybe the first city. Lived and reigned in uruk during 1st half of the 3rd millennium. Flaw= arrogance, strengoldest human narrative ever written. The transformation of an arrogant king- comes to term with own humanity. Friendship, mortality, intimacy, heroism, wisdom, action/adventure, loneliness, love, death, arrogance vs. strength. Text comes to us in broken tablets. Long poem- the song of a people/culture. Epic poem inscribed on a series of broken tablets. Questions and ellipsis which brought together form naattaive. = not sure if restoration of a word is entirely accurate. Gilgamesh is also fractured, like the tablets. Human being struggling to comet to terms with his own mortality. But becomes a wiser ruler through learning about his humanity.
