“When the gods created Gilgamesh,” the ancient text says, “they gave him a perfect body. Shamash the glorious sun [god] endowed him with beauty, Adad the god of the storm endowed him with courage, the great gods made his beauty perfect, surpassing all others, terrifying like a great wild bull. Two thirds they made him god and one third man.”
Every year freshmen at Wyoming Catholic College struggle to find their bearings in the midst of The Epic of Gilgamesh. The epic was composed in Babylon in the mid- to late-second millennium BC. It was something of a founding myth for the Babylonian kings and the parallels between Gilgamesh and the Bible and Gilgamesh and Homer are, to say the least, intriguing.
Professor Kyle Washut has just finished teaching The Epic of Gilgamesh and is anxiously awaiting student papers reflecting on the tale. Prof. Washut is our guest this week on The After Dinner Scholar.
Education at a Distance: Successes, Difficulties, and Lessons Learned with Dean Kyle Washut
Music, Worship, and Theology by Dr. Stanley Grove
Alexandre Solzhenitsyn "A World Split Apart": A Conversation Between Dr. Virginia Arbery and Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Learning to Love Poetry with Dr. Glenn Arbery
20th Century Music: Sounds that Kill, Sounds that Give Life, and No Sounds at All by Dr. Stanley Grove
John Keats "The Eve of St. Agnes": A Conversation Between Dr. Glenn Arbery and Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Faith and Reason in Dei Filius with Dr. Kent Lasnoski and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert: 7) “How to Perform Scripture: Lectio Divina and Reading with the Heart” by Dr. Jason Baxter
Sickness, Separation, Grief, and Holy Week by Prof. Kyle Washut
Into the Lenten Desert: 6) “Praying with the Whole World: Evagrios and ‘Natural Contemplation’” by Dr. Jason Baxter
Michael Behe and Irreducible Complexity with Dr. Scott Olsson and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert: 5) “Dionysius the Areopagite and the Darkness of God” by Dr. Jason Baxter
St. John Henry Newman on the Theotokos with Prof. Kyle Washut and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert 4) “Augustine’s Restless Heart and the Inward Turn: What Augustine Learned from the Pagans” by Dr. Jason Baxter
“Only on the bright edges of the world”: Man and Landscape in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop with Ms Catherine Stypa
Into the Lenten Desert: 3) "Pagans Grope Toward God: Piety and Prayer in Classical Antiquity" by Dr. Jason Baxter
"The World is Too Much with Us": The Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Into the Lenten Desert: 2) "How Did We Get Here: Why We Need the Medieval Masters" by Dr. Jason Baxter
The Oresteia: Vengence, Fury, and Justice with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Into the Lenten Desert: 1) The Soul from Whom God Hides Nothing by Dr. Jason Baxter
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