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Women in Antiquity
Civilizing Prostitute, Immoral Goddess: Women in The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sumer Women in Gilgamesh
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Antiquity Civilizing Prostitute, Immoral Goddess: Women in The Epic - - PDF document
Antiquity Civilizing Prostitute, Immoral Goddess: Women in The Epic - - PDF document
9/21/18 Women in Antiquity Civilizing Prostitute, Immoral Goddess: Women in The Epic of Gilgamesh M E E T I N G 2 Sumer Women in Gilgamesh SUMER 1 9/21/18 Fertile Crescent The city-state 2 9/21/18 Ziggurat Rivalry for resources
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Ziggurat Rivalry for resources → warfare
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The deluge Life and afterlife King Gilgamesh
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The Epic of Gilgamesh Ways of looking at the Epic
Gilgamesh as a priest-king Gilgamesh as a mortal Gilgamesh as a man
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Characters
Gilgámesh king of Úruk Nínsun his divine mother Enkídu his friend Shámhat a prostitute in Úruk Shámash sun-god Humbába forest guardian Íshtar great goddess Úta-napíshti survivor of the Flood
READINGS
Selections from The Epic of Gilgamesh
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Abusch, “Ishtar's Proposal and Gilgamesh’s Refusal”
Harris, “Inanna-Ishtar as Paradox” Bailey, “Initiation and the Primal Woman”
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Concluding thoughts: Sumer and Gilgamesh
Rome, 2nd century CE