“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.
Courage, Henry V, and St. Crispin's Day Eve with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Lecture - Courage and "The Cure at Troy" by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Lecture - Courage in Conquest: Joshua and the People of Israel by Dr. James Tonkowich
Courage in the Face of Flood, Flames, and Fangs with Dr. James Tonkowich
Humanae Vitae: Contributing to the Creation of a Truly Human Civilization with Dr. Kent Lasnoski and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Socrates' Apology: Courage or Comedy? by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Full Lecture: Courage and the City in Aristotle by Prof. Kyle Washut
Courage and Courageous Children: Lessons from Plato and Aristotle with Prof. Kyle Washut
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Emotion of Courage with Dr. Stanley Grove
Courage and Antigone's Choice by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Achilles: His Fate, His Courage, and His Shield with Dr. Glenn Arbery
The Wyoming School of Catholic Thought and the Paradox of Courage with Dr. Glenn Arbery
"Back in the Saddle Again": Horsemanship and the Liberal Arts with Lorine Sheehan
Thinking Carefully About Abortion with Dr. Michael Bolin
To Infinity and Beyond with Dr. Scott Olsson
Reflections on Graduation 2018 with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Literature, Poetry, and Literary Converts with Prof. Joseph Pearce
Reading and Believing: De Verbum with Prof. Kyle Washut
Dueling Founders: The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists with Dr. Jim Tonkowich
Hunting, Humanity, and the Liberal Arts with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
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