“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.
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St. Augustine, the City of God, and the City of Man with Dr. Virginia Arbery
Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Thomas Aquinas with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Virtue, Happy Endings, and the Novels of Jane Austen with Dr. Tiffany Shubert
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Old Testament Judges and Kings and the Question of Centralization with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Science in a Cup of Tea with Dr. Scott Olsson
Telemachus and the Birth of Wonder with Dr. Jason Baxter
Happiness and the Good in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics with Dr. Michael Bolin
Liberal Education from Plato to Wyoming Catholic College with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
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Courage, Martyrdom, and "Murder in the Cathedral" with Prof. Kyle Washut
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Lecture - A Scheme, Courage, and Providence in Shakespeare's "Henry V" by Dr. Glenn Arbery
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