“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.
The Word Became Flesh: St. Athanasius' "On the Incarnation" with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Master of My Own Fate or Dependent Rational Animal? with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Poetry, Praise, and "Pied Beauty" with Dr. Jason Baxter
What is the Soul?: Aristotle's de Anima with Dr. Michael Bolin
Gritty Stones, Civilizational Mission, and History: Reflections on the Life of Stephen Tonsor with Dr. Gleaves Whitney
Lumen Gentium for All Saints' Day with Professor Kyle Washut
Shakespeare, Caesar, Culture, and Politics with Dr. Khalil Habib
Dionysus, Apollo, and the Challenge of Deep Knowing with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Mountains, Rivers, Backpacks, and the Liberal Arts with Dr. Thomas Zimmer
Hamilton, Madison, and Jay: Exploring "The Federalist Papers" with Dr. Virginia Arbery
Plato's "Alcibiades": The Gateway to Philosophy with Professor Kyle Washut
Transcending Time and Space through the Study of Latin with Professor Eugene Hamilton
Good without God?: Iris Murdoch's Moral Vision with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Religious Liberty in America with Dr. James Tonkowich
The Witness of the Whisky Priest: Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Flannery O’Connor and the Warthog from Hell with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Lecture: Prospero's Return by Dr. Glenn Arbery
The Use of Power and the Possibility of Grace in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Lecture: The Exodus and America by Dr. Virginia Arbery
The Puritans, the Exodus, and the American Experience with Dr. Virginia Arbery
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